Excerpt from Standard Catalog, Biography Section: One Thousand Titles of the Most Representative, Interesting and Useful Biographies Scope. This section of the Standard Catalog contains about 1000 titles of the most representative, interesting and useful biographies, with descriptive and evaluative notes. Some biographies which few people care to read thru have been included because of their value in reference work. A few biographies hardly up to standard have been included because of the importance of the subject of the biography. The compiler has tried to consider all biographies appearing up to June lst, 1919. Arrangement. Most of the titles listed are classed in 920928, Collective biography, or 92, Individual biography; but lives of artists, sculptors, musicians and actors have been classed with the 7005, Fine arts, altho listed here. Librarians are asked to bear in mind that many so-called lives of artists, musicians and writers partake more of the nature of criticism than of biography and will be found classed in the Fine arts and the Literature sections of the Standard Cata log, rather than in the Biography section. Lives of Jesus, 232, have been in cluded by request. Lives of Negroes and of Indians of today have been classed in 92 rather than in the numbers assigned by the Decimal classification. Lives of combatants in the European war, limited in scope chiefly to the war, will be included in the History section under European war. The scheme of arrange ment will be found on preface page v. In Individual biography, the entries have been made under the names of the persons written about, in order not to separate two or more lives of the same individual. 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.