NEW SERIES OF CHAMBERS’S LIBRARY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
Reading edition
ILLUSTRATED.
Price 1s.
‘Excellent popular biographies.’—British Weekly.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES.
WALLACE AND BRUCE: Heroes of Scotland. By Mary Cochrane, L.L.A. Illustrated. 1/
This little book gives the main outlines of the lives of the founders of Scottish political freedom. In its preparation the best authorities have been consulted, and here is given in small bulk the results of research only to be found in larger volumes more difficult of access.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: the Story of his Life and Times. By Evan J. Cuthbertson. With Portrait and numerous Illustrations. 1/
Gives in brief and compact form what history, tradition, and research are able to tell us of the life-story of the world’s greatest dramatist. An attempt is made to picture the England he lived in, the scenes among which he moved, the people he associated with, and the customs that bound him.
QUEEN VICTORIA: the Story of her Life and Reign. 1/
‘A sympathetic and popular sketch of the life and rule of our Queen up to the present day.’—Manchester Guardian.
LORD SHAFTESBURY AND GEORGE PEABODY. Being the Story of Two Great Public Benefactors. With Portraits. 1/
‘Cheap, interesting, and readable biographies.’—Methodist Times.
‘May be recommended to young readers as being as inspiring as it is interesting.’—Scotsman.
WILLIAM I., GERMAN EMPEROR, AND HIS SUCCESSORS. By Mary Cochrane, L.L.A. Illustrated. 1/
‘Must take a prominent place among compilations on the same subject.... Compact and comprehensive.’—Daily Chronicle.
THOMAS CARLYLE: the Story of his Life and Writings. 1/
‘We don’t know where to find a better biography of any man at the price.’—Methodist Times.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON: the Story of his Life and Inventions. By E. C. Kenyon. 1/
‘It will repay any one who is interested in Edison’s various works to read this little book.’—Inventions.
THE STORY OF WATT AND STEPHENSON. 1/
‘As a gift-book for boys this is simply first-rate.’—Schoolmaster.
THE STORY OF NELSON AND WELLINGTON. 1/
‘This book is cheap, artistic, and instructive. It should be in the library of every home and school.’—Schoolmaster.
GENERAL GORDON AND LORD DUNDONALD: the Story of Two Heroic Lives. 1/
THOMAS TELFORD AND JAMES BRINDLEY. 1/
‘This is a capital book for boys of active and inquiring mind.’—Saturday Review.
LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY: the Story of the opening up of the Dark Continent. 1/
COLUMBUS AND COOK: the Story of their Lives, Voyages, and Discoveries. 1/
‘Models of compact biography.’—Christian World.
‘Is a fascinating and historical account of daring adventure.’—Bristol Mercury.
THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Robert Chambers, LL.D. Revised, with additions, including the Autobiography. 1/
Besides the Autobiography, many interesting and characteristic anecdotes of the boyhood of Scott, which challenge the attention of the young reader, have been added; while the whole has been revised and brought up to date.
THE STORY OF HOWARD AND OBERLIN. 1/
The book is equally divided between the lives of Howard the prison reformer, and Oberlin the pastor and philanthropist, who worked such a wonderful reformation amongst the dwellers in a valley of the Vosges Mountains.
THE STORY OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 1/
A brief and graphic life of the first Napoleon, set in a history of his own times: the battle of Waterloo, as of special interest to English readers, being fully narrated.
PERSEVERANCE AND SUCCESS: the Life of William Hutton. 1/
STORY OF A LONG AND BUSY LIFE. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 1/