I am indebted to Mr. Emery Walker for assistance in the selection of the portraits.
Three of my friends have been kind enough to read parts of the book and to give me advice: the Rev. A. T. P. Williams and Mr. C. E. Robinson, my colleagues here, and Mr. Nowell Smith, Head Master of Sherborne. I owe much also to the good judgement of Mr. Milford's reader. If I venture to thank them for their help, they are in no way responsible for my mistakes. Writing in the intervals of school-mastering I have no doubt been guilty of many, and I shall be grateful if any reader will take the trouble to inform me of those which he detects.
G.H.B.
Winchester,
April 1920.
[LIST OF PORTRAITS]
| Thomas Carlyle | [Frontispiece] | |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Sir Robert Peel | Facing Page: | [31] |
| From the painting by J. Linnell in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Sir Charles Napier | " | [54] |
| From the drawing by Edwin Williams in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Lord Shaftesbury | " | [73] |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Lord Lawrence | " | [92] |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| John Bright | " | [110] |
| From the painting by W. W. Ouless in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Charles Dickens | " | [129] |
| From the painting by Daniel Maclise in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | " | [150] |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Charles Kingsley | " | [177] |
| From a drawing by W. S. Hunt in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| George Frederick Watts | " | [196] |
| From a painting by himself in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| John Coleridge Patteson | " | [220] |
| From a drawing by William Richmond. (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.) | ||
| Sir Robert Morier | " | [245] |
| From a drawing by William Richmond. (By kind permission of Mr. Edward Arnold.) | ||
| Lord Lister | " | [276] |
| From a photograph by Messrs. Barraud. | ||
| William Morris | " | [300] |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| John Richard Green | " | [323] |
| From a drawing by Frederick Sandys. (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.) | ||
| Cecil Rhodes | " | [349] |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. |