Includes index (v. 2) "Twentieth impression, March, 1920"--T.p. verso v. 1. Beginnings -- Life at Brown University -- The poet in exile -- The new life -- First months in the White House -- War in earnest -- Errands North and South -- The great companion -- The roving diplomat: Paris -- Washington during Reconstruction -- The roving diplomat: Vienna, Spain -- Journalism -- Authorship -- Friendships -- Politics -- v. 2. "The bread-winners" -- "Abraham Lincoln: a history" -- The Washington circle -- Letters to Henry Adams -- Major McKinley -- Hay's ambassadorship -- Enter Hay Secretary of State -- Alaska: the fist Canal Treaty -- The boxer ordeal and the open door -- Lights and shadows -- The German menace looms up -- The Republic of Panama -- Theodore Roosevelt sketched by John Hay -- Hay's last labors -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The arbitration of the Venezuelan Dispute in 1902: President Roosevelt's action with the German Emperor ; President Roosevelt's statement Bound in cloth; frontispiece in each vol 18