Table of Contents
Preface
Introductory Note
Chapter 1. Marshall Field
Chapter 2. Bell Telephone Talk: Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell
Chapter 3. Why the American People Like Helen Gould
Chapter 4. Philip D. Armour’s Business Career
Chapter 5. What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy
Chapter 6. The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell University
Chapter 7. The Story of John Wanamaker
Chapter 8. Giving up Five Thousand Dollars a Year to Become a Sculptor
Chapter 9. Questions and Answers: Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills
Chapter 10. Nordica: What it Costs to Become a Queen of Song
Chapter 11. How William Dean Howells Worked to Secure a Foothold
Chapter 12. John D. Rockefeller
Chapter 13. The Author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic—Her Views of Education for Young Women
Chapter 14. A Talk with Edison: Dramatic Incidents in His Early Life
Chapter 15. A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace
Chapter 16. Carnegie as a Metal Worker
Chapter 17. John B. Herreshoff, the Yacht Builder
Chapter 18. A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty
Chapter 19. How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music
Chapter 20. John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top
Chapter 21. Vreeland’s Romantic Story: How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day
Chapter 22. How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect
Index
