A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY Charles Francis Horne (1870-1942) was an American author and editor. He edited many multiple volume collections at the beginning of the twentieth century including: Great Men and Famous Women (8 volumes, 1894), The Story of the Greatest Nations (with Edward S. Ellis) (10 volumes, 1901-1906), Works of Jules Verne (15 volumes, 1911), The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (14 volumes, 1917), and The Great Events by Famous Historians (with Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd) (21 volumes).JOHN ADAMS, BISMARCK, BOLIVAR, EDMUND BURKE, JEAN FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION, GROVER CLEVELAND, GEORGES CUVIER, CHARLES DARWIN, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LEON GAMBETTA, WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, HORACE GREELEY, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, PATRICK HENRY, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, ANDREW JACKSON, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, MARIA THERESA, COUNT DE MIRABEAU, ISAAC NEWTON, DANIEL O'CONNELL, PARNELL, JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI, PETE