Description:1927. This book contains a series of essays on various important personages of history. Includes discussions relative to the following: Frederick the Great; Baron Vom Stein; Bismarck; Stanley; Peters; Rhodes; Wilson; Rathenau; Lenin; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; Rembrant's self portrait; Voltaire in Eighteen Tableaux; Lord Byron and Lassalle; Goethe and Schiller; Dehmel; Balzac; portrait of an officer.