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Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life That Have Never Been Solved (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1919), by John Elfreth Watkins (page images at HathiTrust) Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust) Famous Men of Ancient Times (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust) Famous Men of Rome, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics) Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland The Red Book of Heroes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by Arthur Wallis Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Boys of the Ages: Their Dreams and Their Crafts, by Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics) Dawnings of Genius: or, The Early Lives of Some Eminent Persons of the Last Century (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google) The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org) Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org) Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust) Reminiscences, Musical and Other (Boston: Knight and Millet, 1903), by Fanny Reed Major Prophets of To-Day (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Edwin E. Slosson (page images at HathiTrust) Six Major Prophets (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Edwin E. Slosson (page images at HathiTrust) Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK) Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com) Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne (85 volumes in French; 1811-1862), contrib. by J. Fr. Michaud and Louis Gabriel Michaud (page images at HathiTrust) Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust) Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust) Directors and Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence, by United States Central Intelligence Agency (HTML at fdlp.gov) Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text) Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana) Sketches of Childhood and Girlhood: Chicago, 1847-1864 (c1925), by Cornelia Gray Lunt Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography (c2003), by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)