The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
1883
John S. White's 1883 abridgement of Plutarch's Lives for young readers, from North's and Dryden's English. Seventeen lives run in full, Theseus and Romulus through Alexander, with Plutarch's own comparisons between the paired Greeks and Romans, followed by seventeen short extracts: the engines of Archimedes, Cleopatra's barge, the death of Caesar. Thirty-four pieces in all.
- Theseus
- Romulus
- Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
- Lycurgus
- Solon
- Themistocles
- Camillus
- Pericles
- Demosthenes
- Cicero
- Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero
- Alcibaides
- Coriolanus
- Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus
- Aristides
- Cimon
- Pompey
- The Engines of Archimedes from the Life of Marcellus
- Description of Cleopatra from the Life of Antony
- Anecdotes from the Life of Agesilaus, King of Sparta
- The Brothers from the Life of Timoleon
- The Wound of Philopoemen
- A Roman Triumph from the Life of Paulus Aemilius
- The Noble Character of Caius Fabricius from the Life of Pyrrhus
- From the Life of Quintus Fabius Maximus
- The Cruelty of Lucius Cornelius Sylla
- The Luxury of Lucullus
- From the Life of Sertorius
- The Scroll-From the Life of Lysander
- The Character of Marcus Cato
- The Sacred Theban Band from the Life of Pelopidas
- From the Life of Titus Flamininus, the Conqueror of Philip
- Alexander the Great
- The Death of Caesar