Men of renown
Subtitle: character sketches of men distinguished as patriots, statesmen, writers, reformers, merchants, etc
By: by Daniel Wise
Publisher: Cranston and Stowe; Phillips and Hunt
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Cincinnati; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Presidents; Statesmen; Biography; American Authors; English Authors
Notes: Bound in cloth; ornamental cover and spine with gilt-stamped lettering.

Engraving of Lincoln on frontispiece.
Table of contents: title: Introductory words to young men; title: Abraham Lincoln : the preserver of his country; title: John Quincy Adams : the conscientious statesman; title: Amos and Abbott Lawrence : two honest merchant princes; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne : the popular author; title: Rev. Sydney Smith : the reviewer, social reformer, and humorist; title: Charles James Fox : the parliamentary orator; title: Oliver Cromwell : the patriotic statesman and soldier; title: Thomas Cranmer : the martyred reformer; title: Desiderius Erasmus : the pusillanimous scholar; title: Geoffrey Chaucer : the father of English poetry.