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LIST OF CONTENTS

Introductory Remarks
Sir Christopher Wren
Miguel de Cervantes
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Humphrey Davy
J. S. Mill
François Liszt
Lord Clive
King Edward the Confessor
The Rev. John Clifford, M.A., LL.B., D.D.
Messrs Chapman & Hall
Karl IVlarx
Otto the Great
Marconi
David Hume
Mr H. Belloc
Job
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The Duke of Fife, K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O.
The Duke of Wellington
John Bunyan
George Hirst
Erasmus and the Humanists
Besant and Rice
Tiziano Vecelli
Professor J ames Dewar, F.R.S.
Sir \Valter Raleigh
Jane Austin
Odo of Bayeux
David Ricardo
Sir Thomas à Mallory
Mr Alfred Beit
Cimabue
President Roosevelt
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
Sir Alexander FuIler Ac1and-Hood, M.P.
Mahomet
Edvard Grieg
Jan Van Eyck
Mr T. \Verner Laurie
Index of Psychology

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

The Art of Biography
Is different fron1 Geography.
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Sir Christopher Wren
Said, cc I am going to dine with some men.
"If anybody calls
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11lGUEL DE CERVANTES

The people of Spain think Cervantes
Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes:
An opinion resented most bitterly
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Mr Bernard Shaw
Was just setting out for the war,
When he heard it was a dangerous trade
And demonstrably underpaid.

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
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Dr Clifford
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Chapman & Hall
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Karl Marx
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The great Emperor Otto
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The great Duke of Wellington
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The intrepid Ricardo
With characteristic bravado,
Alluded openly to Rent
Wherever he went.

SIR THOMAS À MALLORY

Sir Thomas à Mallory
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Knew how officers In the Blues felt,
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Sir Alexander Acland-Hood
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I am not Mahomet.
Far from it.
That is the mistake
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INDEX OF PSYCHOLOGY.

(In all work of a b'iographz"c character it zS important to make
copious reference to as many as possible of the generally-recognised
virtues, vices,good points,foibles,peculiaritt"es, tricks, characteristics,
little weaknesses, traits, imperfecti01ls,filds, 'idiosyncrasies, singular-
ities, morbid symptoms, oddities,faults, and regrettable propensities
set forth in thc following table. Tlze form of an alphabetic index,
with references to the examples given in the preceding lages, has
been chosen, so that the beginner who may be desirous, 'when tryinf
hi's hand at work of this sort, of seeing how any given one of these
subjects may best be treated, zS enabled at once to turn to one or
more model passages.)

Abominable deceit (\VREN).
Agitation, reluctance to explain (BElT).
Allah, Prophet of, refusal to admit identity with (MAHOMET).
Appearances, disregard of, by man of position (MALLORY).
Artistic temperament, the: its acute sensitiveness (VAN EYCK) ;
love of violent action (LISZT); deliberate eccentricity
(FIFE); naïf self-appreciation (CIMABUE); irresistibly
attracted by the sublime (GRIEG); high value set upon
it by Frenchmen (TIZIANO).

Bankruptcy, moral (WREN).
Blindness to obvious tendency of public opinion (BELLOC).

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Cobdenism, qualified adherence to, hesitation to avow (ACLAND-
HOOD).
Conduct, disingenuous (\VREN).
Contentions and disagreements, love of (ERASMUS, BESANT
AND RICE, CLIFFORD, RALEIGH).

Diet, morbid delicacy in matter of (DAVY, BESANT, MARCONI,
but if. BUNYAN).
Domestic servants, encouragement of dishonesty among
(\VREN).

Efficiency (DEWAR, CIMABUE, HIRST, LI5ZT).
Escutcheon, blot on, action involving (WREN).
Excisable commodity, unsympathetic attitude towards
(CLIFFORD).

Fact, cynical perversion of (WREN).
Frigidity of style, sometimes attributable to præ-natal influences
(HUME).
Funereal thoughts, predisposition to (HARLEY).

Generalisations, sweeping, dangerous fondness for (PIZARRO).
Guile (WREN).

Habits, repugnant personal, often found in association with fine
spiritual gifts (BUNYAN).
Horizon, restricted mental (PIZARRO).
Hour of trial, fortitude in (ACLAND-HoOD).
Hubbub, interminable, power to raise (MARCONI).
Hypocrisy, calculated (WREN).

Ignoring, pointed, of literary rivals (JOB).
Information, insufficient, proneness to act upon (SHAW,
ROOSEVELT).
Insomnia, liability to (VAN EYCK, BElT).
Integrity, low standard of (WREN).

Jesuitical dealing (WREN).
Justification, flimsy, of homicide (PIZARRO).

Kindness to animals (J OB, MARX).
Knavery (WREN).

Labouchere,
Ir, power to awaken interest in (AUSTEN).
Levity, irresponsible, of Y orkshiremen (HIRST).
Lie, bouncing, circulation of (WREN).
Low company, penchant for (MALLORY).

MACCHIAVELLI, unholy precepts of, tendency to act upon
(WREN).
Memory, lapse of (ODO).
Mind, contented, blessing of a (MALLORY).

Nervous prostration, freedom from (LAURIE).
U Noblesse Oblige," disregard of apothegm (WREN).

Obesity, effective treatment of (WELLINGTON).
Openness, want of (WREN).

Ordinary man, treatment of genius at hands of (DAVY, HARLEY).
Oriental metaphor, distaste for (CHAPMAN AND HALL).
Ostentation, contempt for (MALLORY).
Output, delusions in regard to reception of literary (BELLOC).

Percussion, instrument of, habit of treating pianoforte as (LISZT).
\ Principle, absence of (WREN).
- self-sacrificing devotion to (CHAPMAN & HALL).
Prompt and decisive action, unfitness for position requiring
(OTTO).
Psychology, complex and baffling, of contemporary genius
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'Quickening, need of spiritual (\VREN).
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Repartée, witty and pungent, gift of (HIRST, CIMABUE).
Resemblance, confusing physical, sometimes noted among
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I Restoration, lax morality of, readiness to faIl in with (\VREN).

Salvation Army, sympathy with methods of (LISZT).
I Satanism, revolting display of (\VREN).
Self-effacement, public-spirited (CLIVE).
Sense of proportion, lack of (PIZARRO).
Simple Life, fondness for the (ElJW ARD THE CONFESSOR,
MALLORY).
Statesmanship, qualities of: anticipation of coming problems
(HARLEY); readiness to sink own prejudices in interest of
common weal (ACLAND-HoOD); freedom from insomnia
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Taboos, faithful observance of (ODO).
Taciturnity of the strong, silent man (BElT).
, Tartufe, willingness to regard, as moral examplar (vVREN).
Treasury, Parliamentary Secretary to the, anxiety to remain
(ACLAND-HoOD).

Ugly, indifference to appearing (\VELLINGTON),
Umbrage, quickness to take (ERASMUS).
Untruth, plausible, ability to frame (\VREN).
Utilitarianism, susceptibility to charms of (MILL).
Utopian conditions, ill-judged efforts to reaIise (PIZARRO).

ValhaIla, precipitate eagerness to qualify for (SHAW).
Vaticanism, display of blighting effects of, upon human mind
(LISZT, PIZARRO).
Veracity. departure from (\VREN).

\Vatchword, insistence upon iII-chosen (ROOSEVELT).
vVorld, the next, neglect of prospects in (\VREN).

Years, early, forgetfulness of habits inculcated in (MARCONI).
Y.M.C.A., unfitness for (WREN).

Zealous pursuit of pleasure at expense of soul (WREN).
Zenith of literary achievement, attainment of (AUSTEN).
Zulus, gradual adoption of social practices of (FIFE).

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