Or Success Ideals and How to Attain Them. Volume one of a two volume set. Partial Contents: Invention: Thomas Edison, Hiram Maxim; Manufacture: Andrew Carnegie, Hazen S. Pingree; Commerce: Marshall Field; John Wanamaker; Sir Thomas Lipton; Finance: Darius Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt; Transportation: Robert Clowry; Herbert Vreeland; Labor: Samuel Gompers; Public Life: Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph Choate, Chauncey Depew, Jonathan Dolliver, Thomas Platt, Tom L. Johnson; Education and Literature: Jacob Schurman, James W. Riley, Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William D. Howells, General Lew Walace, Burton Harrison; Art: Edwin A. Abbey, Alice B. Stephens, Frederic Remington, Homer Davenport, Charles D. Gibson.