Heroes and heroines of many lands. [electronic resource] illustrated by George Garland.

David: the boy who vanquished a giant -- Socrates: the man who died for truth -- Horatius: the Roman who stopped an army -- Esther: queen who gambled with death -- The MacCabees: patriots who beat an army -- Spartacus: the slave who defied Rome -- Robin Hood: outlaw who ransomed a king -- William Tell: the hero who defied a tyrant -- Joan of Arc: the girl who commanded an army -- Sir Philip Sidney: soldier of compassion -- Madeleine de Vercheres: girl who outwitted the savages -- Vincent de Paul: a priest who chose slavery -- Marquis de Lafayette: fighter for American liberty -- Thaddeus Kosciuszko: the general who fought for peasants -- Simon Bolivar: liberator of a continent -- Elizabeth Fry: the lady of the prison reform -- Bernardo O'Higgins: the general who fought with cattle -- Grace Darling: savior of the shipwrecked -- Florence Nightingale: crusader in nursing -- Father Damien: the priest who lived among lepers -- David Livingstone: the man who opened darkest Africa -- Mary Slessor: teacher of savages -- Evangeline Booth: general of the Salvation Army -- Maria Montessori: educator of the feeble-minded -- Hannah Senesh: the girl who resisted under torture -- Mahatma Gandhi: warrior without guns.