FOUR GREAT PHILANTHROPISTS: Lord Shaftesbury, George Peabody, John Howard, J. F. Oberlin. Illustrated. 2/
Shows the good accomplished through the agency of the lives and labours of a noble Earl, a millionaire, a prison reformer, and the humble pastor of the remote Ban de la Roche.
TWO GREAT AUTHORS. Lives of Scott and Carlyle. 2/
‘Youthful readers will find these accounts of the boyhood and youth of two of the three Scotch literary giants full of interest.’—Schoolmaster.
EMINENT ENGINEERS. Lives of Watt, Stephenson, Telford, and Brindley. 2/
‘All young persons should read it, for it is in an excellent sense educational. It were devoutly to be wished that young people would take delight in such biographies.’—Indian Engineer.
TALES OF THE GREAT AND BRAVE. By Margaret Fraser Tytler. 2/
A collection of interesting biographies and anecdotes of great men and women of history, in the style of Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather, written by a niece of the historian of Scotland.
THROUGH STORM AND STRESS. By J. S. Fletcher. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey. 2/
‘Full of excitement and incident.’—Dundee Advertiser.