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 WHO'S WHO, 1899 AN ANNUAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Edited by DOUGLAS SLADEN

The fifty-first year of the issue of this established standard work of reference sees a number of new features, the most prominent of which is the enlarging and perfecting of the Biographical Dictionary, which is drawn up tor the cosmopolitan reader who feels the pressure of the bond that yearly draws closer all English-speaking people, so that the need of the day is not an American or an English Biographical Dictionary, but the broader work containing lives of men of both nations; in brief, , 1899.
 * The broad field covered by it

Not only are the names selected those which every one meets with in reading of public affairs, but in every line of effort in which English-speaking people engage, those who have achieved the greatest success are noted, and their names are included in the Biographical Dictionary, be they men or women, explorers, writers, scientists, men of rank in the army, the navy, in politics, etc.; they are easily referred to in, 1899.
 * Range of the information included

The book is one that is needed by every student or educator for the sake of its information in regard to men of prominence in the educational world: by editors, reviewers, writers of all kinds, as containing hundreds of names constantly referred to in the public press. Had this been at hand when "The Celebrity" was published, fewer papers would have confused Winston Churchill its author, with Winston L. S. Churchill of the English army, nor is it now necessary to refer to two Dictionaries, English and American, to straighten out the record of each. For these and other names, refer to, 1899.
 * Essential to all readers

Among new Tables see: American Railways; American Periodicals; American Ladies with English Titles, etc.

WHO'S


 * BIGELOW, Poultney, Correspondent Harper's Weekly.
 * BISPHAM, David S., Baritone, Grand Opera.
 * CURZON, Geo. N., Viceroy of India.
 * KITCHENER, Herbert, Sirdar of Egyptian Army.
 * SIGSBEE, Charles D., Captain of the "Maine."
 * ALLBUTT, Thos. C., M D.
 * DECLÉ, Lionel, Explorer.
 * GILL, David, Astronomer.
 * McKINLEY, Wm., President, U. S.
 * PENNELL, Joseph and Elizabeth, Artist and Author.
 * PADEREWSKI, I. J., Pianist.
 * REHAN, Ada, Actress.
 * CRAWFORD, F. Marion, Author.
 * FISKE, John.
 * GARLAND, H.
 * HIGGINSON, Thos. Wentworth.
 * STOCKTON, F. R.

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