Annals, Anecdotes and Legends: A Chronicle of Life Assurance

ANNALS, ANECDOTES, AND LEGENDS OF LIFE ASSURANCE.

London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street-Square.

BY JOHN FRANCIS,
AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND,” ETC.
“Tragedy never quits the world—it surrounds us everywhere. We have but to look, wakeful and vigilant, abroad; and, from the age of Pelops to that of Borgia, the same crimes, though under different garbs, will stalk in our paths.”—Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.
“Murder?” “Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”—Shakspeare.
LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1853.

Dedicated, by Permission,