Victorian worthies: sixteen biographies
"Written primarily for boys at school", as a supplement to the study of civics. cf. Pref Introduction: The Victorian era.--Thomas Carlyle, prophet.--Sir Robert Peel, statesman.--Sir Charles Napier, soldier.--The Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist.--Lord Lawrence, administrator.--John Bright, tribune.--Charles Dickens, novelist and social reformer.--Lord Tennyson, poet.--Charles Kingsley, parish priest.--George Frederick Watts, artist.--Bishop Patteson, missionary.--Sir Robert Morier, diplomatist.--Lord Lister, surgeon.--William Morris, craftsman.--John Richard Green, historian.--Cecil Rhodes, colonist.--Index
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