MODERN LEADERS:
BEING A SERIES OF
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
By JUSTIN McCARTHY,

Author of "Lady Judith: A Tale of Two Continents," etc.


NEW YORK:
SHELDON & COMPANY,
677 BROADWAY and 214 and 216 MERCER STREET.
1872.


CONTENTS.


Queen Victoria and Her Subjects.[7]
The Real Louis Napoleon.[18]
Eugenie, Empress of the French.[25]
The Prince of Wales.[35]
The King of Prussia.[45]
Victor Emanuel, King of Italy.[55]
Louis Adolph Thiers.[66]
Prince Napoleon.[77]
The Duke of Cambridge.[85]
Brigham Young.[96]
The Liberal Triumvirate of England.[106]
English Positivists.[116]
English Toryism and its Leaders.[126]
"George Eliot" and George Lewes.[136]
George Sand.[145]
Edward Bulwer and Lord Lytton.[156]
Par Nobile Fratrum—The Two Newmans.[167]
Archbishop Manning.[175]
John Ruskin.[183]
Charles Reade.[192]
Exile-World of London.[202]
The Reverend Charles Kingsley.[211]
Mr. James Anthony Froude.[223]
Science and Orthodoxy in England.[234]