BIOGRAPHY.
A real life often speaks more plainly and effectively than a hundred sermons or exhortations. And as childhood is outgrown, intelligent persons will have a curiosity about those whose names they may have heard.
Cassell’s World’s Workers, namely—
775. General Gordon. (Cassell) 1s.
776. Charles Dickens. (Cassell) 1s.
777. Titus Salt and George Moore. (Cassell) 1s.
778. Florence Nightingale. (Cassell) 1s.
779. Sir H. Havelock. (Cassell) 1s.
780. Abraham Lincoln. (Cassell) 1s.
781. Livingstone. (Cassell) 1s.
782. Franklin. (Cassell) 1s.
783. Cobden. (Cassell) 1s.
784. Handel. (Cassell) 1s.
785. Turner. (Cassell) 1s.
786. G. and R. Stephenson. (Cassell) 1s.
These are full of life, not too long, and exactly suited to their purpose.
787. Life of Dr. Kane, the Arctic Hero. By M. Jones. (Nelson) 2s.
788. Baron von Humboldt. By M. Jones. (Nelson) 2s.
Illustrated, and excellent for presents.
789. Sir David Wilkie and his Works. (Nelson) 2s.
790. Charles Kingsley. People’s edition. (Kegan Paul) 4s. 6d.
This is a book that should be widely dispersed among the more intelligent, especially where there is much temptation to scepticism.
791. Charles Lowder. (Kegan Paul) 3s. 6d.
A biography that wins the heart as much as did the man.
792. Life of the Earl of Shaftesbury. By Edwin Hodder. (Cassell) 7s. 6d.
So noble, pure, devoted, and charitable a life ought to be known to all.
793. Sister Dora. By M. Lonsdale. (Kegan Paul) 2s. 6d.
Excites the warmest enthusiasm.
794. The Story of a Fellow-Soldier. By F. Awdry. (Macmillan) 2s. 6d.
An abridged life of Bishop Patteson.
795. An Elder Sister. By F. Awdry. (Bemrose) 4s. 6d.
Bishop Charles Mackenzie and his sister Anne.
796. Life of Oberlin. By Mrs. Butler. (R.T.S.) 3s. 6d. or 6d.
The latter very small, but in cloth.
797. Nelson. By Southey. (Warne) 2s. 6d. (Routledge) 1s.
Needs no praise.
798. Life of Washington. 1s.
799. From the Log Cabin to the White House. (Warne) 1s.
800. From the Tan Yard to the White House. 1s.
The two latter are lives of Garfield and Grant, sensationally but not unwholesomely told.
801. Hannah More. By Anna J. Buckland. (R.T.S.) 3s.
Very well told.
802. Book of Worthies. By C. M. Yonge. (Macmillan) 4s. 6d.
Chiefly from ancient history.
803. Biographies of Good Women. By C. M. Yonge. (Walter Smith) Vol. I. 6s. Vol. II. 7s.
804. Notable Workers in Humble Life. By the Rev. E. N. Hoare. (Nelson) 2s.
An admirable and inspiriting book. Dick, Edward, Pound, Duncan, here appear as men who looked not to raise themselves in a worldly sense, but for better things.
805. The Peasant-Boy Philosopher. (Routledge) 3s. 6d.
Life of James Ferguson.
806. A Few Good Women. By Catharine MacSorley. (Hogg) 3s. 6d.
Lives of Mrs. Somerville, Lady Derby, the Princess de Lamballe, &c.
807. Heroes of the Indian Empire. By R. Foster. (Cassell) 2s. 6d.
Lives of our great men in India from Clive to Havelock.
If more historical biographies are desired, there is an excellent series edited by Professor Creighton; also some good ones of S.P.C.K., but those here selected are chiefly those that are modern enough to interest the average library reader, of the sort who does not want either fiction or absolutely religious biography.
It is not easy to choose among the many lives of the Queen that the Jubilee has brought forth. S.P.C.K. and R.T.S. have each a large handsome one and a penny one. ‘The First Lady in the Land’ (Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co.) is cheap and attractive. Tulloch’s ‘Life of Queen Victoria’ (Nisbet) for boys and girls, and Miss Yonge’s ‘Victorian Half Century’ (Macmillan), 1s. or 1s. 6d., have both had the honour of Her Majesty’s correction, and are both for the young; Tulloch’s, perhaps, for the youngest. Another life of Queen Victoria (Nelson), 1s. 6d., is a marvel of cheapness and very prettily told.
