This volume of
tributes essays then to be but a concordance of some of the most choice
and interesting extracts, and, artistically illustrated with statues,
scenes, and inscriptions, is issued at an appropriate time and place.
The compiler desires in this preface to acknowledge his sincere
obligations and indebtedness to the many authors and publishers who so
courteously and uniformly extended their consents to use copyright
matter, and to express an equal sense of gratitude to his friend, Stuart
C. Wade, for his valuable assistance in selecting, arranging, and
indexing much of the matter herein contained.

In one of the galleries of Florence there is a remarkable bust of
Brutus, left unfinished by the great sculptor Michael Angelo. Some
writer explained the incomplete condition by indicating that the artist
abandoned his labor in despair, "overcome by the grandeur of the
subject." With similar feeling, this little book is submitted to the
admirers of Columbus and Columbia, wherever they may be found.

J. M. D.

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., July, 1892.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page

Preface, 5

Table of Contents, 7

List of Illustrations, 9

Life of Columbus, 11-40

Selected letters of Columbus, 41-57

Tributes to Columbus, 61-323

Tributes to Columbia, 327-384

Index of Authors--Columbus, 385-388

Index of Authors--Columbia, 389-390

Index of Head Lines, 391-396

Index of Statuary and Inscriptions, 397

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Columbus Statue, Genoa, _Frontispiece_

Columbus at Salamanca, 17

The De Bry Portrait, 24

The Embarkation at Palos, 32

Columbus in Chains, 49