rces begin, he is "still almost as valuable
as ever."]

[Footnote 41: The expedition to Sicily of which, as recorded by
Thucydides, two notable incidents are given in Volume I of this
collection.]

[Footnote 42: Alcibiades was a leader of the party which had favored
the expedition, and which prevailed at last over bitter opposition.]

[Footnote 43: From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece."
Alexander's death, which took place at Babylon in 323 B.C., was due to
a fever, which followed a carouse and lasted twelve days.]

[Footnote 44: This battle was fought In 338 B.C. between Philip of
Macedon, Alexander the Great's father, and the combined forces of
Boeotia and Athens.]

[Footnote 45: The Sea of Azoff in ancient times bore this name.]

THOMAS CARLYLE

Born in 1795, died in 1881; educated in Edinburgh;
schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy in 1816; wrote for cyclopedias in
Edinburgh; became a private tutor in 1822; visited London
and Paris in 1824-25; married Jane Welsh in 1826; lived at
Craigenputtoch in 1828-34, settled at Cheyne Row, Chelsea,
London, in 1834; elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University
in 1866; his "Life of Schiller," published in 1825; "Sartor
Resartus" in 1833, "The French Revolution" in 1837, "Heroes
and Hero Worship" in 1841, "Oliver Cromwell" in 1845,
"Frederick the Great" in 1858-65.

I

CHARLOTTE CORDAY[46]

Never was Republic One and Indivisible at a lower ebb. Amid dim
ferment, History specially notices one thing: in the lobby of the
Maison de l'Intendance, where busy Deputies are coming and going, a
young Lady with an aged valet, taking grave graceful leave of Deputy
Barbaroux. She is of stately Norman figure: in her twenty-fifth year;
of beautiful still countenance: her name is Charlotte Corday,
heretofore styled D'Armans, while Nobility still was. Barbaroux has
given her a note to Deputy Duperret,--him who once drew his sword in
the effervescence. Apparently she will to Paris on some errand? "She
was a Republican before the Revolution, and never wanted energy." A
completeness, a decision is in this fair female Figure: "By energy
she means the spirit that will prompt one to sacrifice himself for his
country." What if she, this fair young Charlotte, had emerged from her
secluded stillness, suddenly like a Star; cruel-lovely, with
half-angelic, half-demonic splendor; to gleam for a moment, and in a
moment be extinguished;