Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
Translated from the French by FREDERIC TABER COOPER
GENERAL NOTE
Of all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice.
Even one who confines his reading solely to biographies of thinkers, writers, inventors, poets of the spirit or poets of science, will ...