GOOD AND GREAT WOMEN: a Book for Girls. Comprises brief lives of Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Mrs Beecher-Stowe, Jenny Lind, Charlotte Brontë, Mrs Hemans, Dorothy Pattison. Numerous Illustrations. 2/6
‘A brightly written volume, full to the brim of interesting and instructive matter; and either as reader, reward, or library book, is equally suitable.’—Teachers’ Aid.
LIVES OF LEADING NATURALISTS. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Illustrated. 2/6
‘Popular and interesting by the skilful manner in which notices of the lives of distinguished naturalists, from John Ray and Francis Willoughby to Charles Darwin, are interwoven with the methodical exposition of the progress of the science to which they are devoted.’—Scotsman.
HISTORY OF THE REBELLION OF 1745-6. By Robert Chambers. New Edition, with Index and Illustrations. 2/6
‘There is not to be found anywhere a better account of the events of ’45 than that given here.’—Newcastle Chronicle.
BENEFICENT AND USEFUL LIVES. Comprising Lord Shaftesbury, George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Besant, Samuel Morley, Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr Arnold of Rugby, &c. By R. Cochrane. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6
‘Nothing could be better than the author’s selection of facts setting forth the beneficent lives of those generous men in the narrow compass which the capacity of the volume allows.’—School Board Chronicle.
GREAT THINKERS AND WORKERS; being the Lives of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Armstrong, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Sir Titus Salt, W. M. Thackeray, Sir Henry Bessemer, John Ruskin, James Nasmyth, Charles Kingsley, Builders of the Forth Bridge, &c. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6