JOAN OF ARC, the most illustrious heroine of history, died at the early age of nineteen, leaving a name immortal in the records of glory and virtue. Her career is unique and unparalleled in history, and the story of her life and death one of the most thrilling tragedies of Time. It may exemplify the proverbial saying, "God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires." It recalls the graphic record in Holy Writ of those worthies "who through faith subdued kingdoms, out of weakness were made strong, and turned to flight the armies of aliens."

Joan of Arc was born at Domremy, in the northeast part of France, in January, 1412. Her true name was Jeanne Darc, but this has undergone various modifications, and the form D'Arc has been used to favor the notion that the family was noble. Her father was a simple peasant farmer, having three sons and two daughters. Jeanne, like the others, was trained in the plain ways of her time and country; she never learned to read or to write, but she was taught to spin and