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Excerpt from Stories of Achievement, Vol. 4: Authors and Journalists IN the preparation of this volume the pub lishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copy right material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowl edgments are due to the Houghton Milin Com pany for permission to reprint the sketch of Horace Greeley; to Little, Brown 8: Co. For permission to reprint passages from The Life, Letters, and Journals of Louisa May Alcott; to Mr. Henry George, Jr., for the extract from his life of his father; to William H. Rideing for permission to reprint extracts from his book Many Celebrities and a Few Others; to the Macmillan Company for permission to use passages from The Making of an Ameri. 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.