Biography Books

Hilaire Belloc - No Alienated Man

Frederick Wilhelmsen

If Belloc is almost completely incomprehensible to the post-war intellectual (even the post-war Catholic intellectual), the lack of understanding can be traced to the amazing personal integration of t..

History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen

Richard Cannon

Biographical memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers, will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, bee..

From Immigrant to Inventor

Michael Pupin

Looking back over the development of this volume throughout the year or more during which I have been writing it, it seems to me that I cannot better express the end I have had in view than to repeat ..

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Ignatius Sancho

The extraordinary Negro, whose Life I am about to write, was born A. D. 1729, on board a ship in the Slave trade, a few days after it had quitted the coast of Guinea for the Spanish West-Indies; and, ..

The Ladies of the White House

Laura C. Holloway

The Ladies of the White House have had no biographers. The custom of the Republic, which relegates back to private life those who have served it, has made it difficult to gather much of stirring inter..

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume II

Richard Hildreth

The garden is the only place in which we Dutchmen, being treated in all respects little better than prisoners, have liberty to walk. It is commonly square, with a back door, and walled in very neatly...

Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

Jarena Lee

At the time I had a book in my hand; it was on a Sabbath morning, about ten o’clock; to this place I resorted, where on coming to the water I sat down on the bank, and on my looking into it, it was su..

Memories of My Life

Sarah Bernhardt

My father used to come to the house of my Aunt Rosine, who was then living at 6 Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin. He was on friendly terms with Rossini, who lived at No. 4 in the same street. He often broug..