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, diplomatis