" We see James Gordon
Bennett, the jibe of all the printers because of his crooked eyes. Yet
he dies the owner of the greatest money-making newspaper of all
newspaper history, a journal which sends expeditions to Africa and
squadrons to the north pole. We see a "canny" Scotch boy at study. He
"takes wonderfully to German," and soon the English world is hailing him
as the "literary Columbus." He has shown them the greatness of
Frederick, of Schiller, and Goethe. He writes a history of the French
Revolution, and calls it the "truth clad in hell-fire." He reads a
library in a few hours, or, rather, he reads what he has not read--and
finally he lies down, hating the world, hating freedom, but full of
genius, and men say "Carlyle is dead."
A BOY CALLED VICTOR HUGO
is born in France. At thirty he is famous. Then for fifty years he
wields an influence through the literatures of all nations second only
to Shakspeare's. We see the sailor-boy Garibaldi, the commander-in-chief
and savior of Uruguay in South America, the idol and king-maker of
Italy, and the stern patriot without rank or gew-gaw on
THE ROCK OF CAPRI,
a joining of the characters of such men as Socrates and Washington.
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