Excerpt from Famous Autobiographies, Vol. 1: 1929 Edition of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Biography includes not only many great books, it intimately reveals the springs of great work. And on the high plane of history a clear under standing oi events depends upon our seeing how rulers and reformers, soldiers and jurists, bore themselves at home as well as under the public eye; how their courage and ambition were but tressed by family affection, by the unswerving loyalty of comrades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.