Volume I.

New York E. P. Dutton And Company 31 West Twenty-Third Street 1905

CONTENTS

PREFACE CHAPTER I. CONCERNING BYGONES PREFATORY CHAPTER II. PERSONAL INCIDENTS CHAPTER III. OTHER INSTANCES CHAPTER IV. FIRST STEPS IN LITERATURE CHAPTER V. GEORGE ELIOT AND GEORGE HENRY LEWES CHAPTER VI. WHEN BIRMINGHAM WAS A TOWN CHAPTER VII. THE TENTH OF APRIL, 1848—ITS INCREDIBILITIES CHAPTER VIII. THE CHARTISTS OF FICTION CHAPTER IX. THE OLD POSTILLION CHAPTER X. MEETING BREAKERS—LIST OF THOSE PAID FOR DOING IT CHAPTER XI. TROUBLE WITH HER MAJESTY CHAPTER XII. UNFORESEEN QUALITIES IN PUBLIC MEN CHAPTER XIII. THE COBDEN SCHOOL CHAPTER XIV. HARRIET MARTINEAU, THE DEAF GIRL OF NORWICH CHAPTER XV. HARRIET MARTIN EAU—FURTHER INCIDENTS IN HER SINGULAR CAREER CHAPTER XVI. THE THREE NEWMANS CHAPTER XVII. MAZZINI IN ENGLAND-INCIDENTS IN HIS CAREER CHAPTER XVIII. MAZZINI THE CONSPIRATOR CHAPTER XIX. GARIBALDI—THE SOLDIER OF LIBERTY CHAPTER XX. THE STORY OF THE BRITISH LEGION—NEVER BEFORE TOLD CHAPTER XXI. JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER XXII. JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER XXIII. ABOUT MR. GLADSTONE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Holyoake

Parker

Lewes

Cobden

Martineau

Newman

Mazzini

Mario

Garibaldi

Mill