FOREWORD

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE LAIRD OF SKYLAND: JOHN MUIR

THE LAIRD OF SKYLAND

THE SEER OF WOODCHUCK LODGE: JOHN BURROUGHS

THE DEEP-SEA DOCTOR: WILFRED GRENFELL

THE CAPTAIN OF HIS SOUL: CAPTAIN SCOTT

A MODERN VIKING: JACOB RIIS

A PIONEER OF THE OPEN: EDWARD L. TRUDEAU

"THE PROPHET-ENGINEER": GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS

A SHEPHERD OF "THE GREAT COUNTRY": BISHOP ROWE

A HERO OF FLIGHT: SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY

A POET-SOLDIER: RUPERT BROOKE

A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: HERBERT C. HOOVER

HEROES OF TO-DAY

HEROES OF TO-DAY

JOHN MUIR ⁂ JOHN BURROUGHS ⁂ WILFRED
GRENFELL ⁂ ROBERT F. SCOTT ⁂ SAMUEL
PIERPONT LANGLEY ⁂ EDWARD
TRUDEAU ⁂ BISHOP ROWE ⁂ JACOB A.
RIIS ⁂ HERBERT C. HOOVER
RUPERT BROOKE ⁂ GEORGE
W. GOETHALS

BY
MARY R. PARKMAN
Author of “Heroines of Service,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED WITH
PHOTOGRAPHS


NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1917


Copyright, 1916, 1917, by
The Century Co.
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Published September, 1917



TO
MY FATHER