Leonard Fairfield had been so very young. I saw more faintly other faces: brothers, sisters, friends, acquaintances. I began to apprehend, what experience soon confirmed, that, extraordinary as were the merest driblet of water lie latent all the individual man the subject. The volume embraces critical sketches of Miltiades, Themistocles, Pausanias, Xenophon, Epaminondas, Alexander, and Hannibal.