{"product_id":"2940011842283","title":"Studies in Contemporary Biography","description":"This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content, linked footnotes making navigation quicker and easier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first and the last of these Studies relate to persons whose fame has gone out into all lands, and about whom so much remains to be said that one who has reflected on their careers need not offer an apology for saying something. Of the other eighteen sketches, some deal with eminent men whose names are still familiar, but whose personalities have begun to fade from the minds of the present generation. The rest treat of persons who came less before the public, but whose brilliant gifts and solid services to the world make them equally deserve to be remembered with honor. Having been privileged to enjoy their friendship, I have felt it a duty to do what a friend can to present a faithful record of their excellence which may help to keep their memory fresh and green.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese Studies are, however, not to be regarded viii as biographies, even in miniature. My aim has rather been to analyse the character and powers of each of the persons described, and, as far as possible, to convey the impression which each made in the daily converse of life. All of them, except Lord Beaconsfield, were personally, and most of them intimately, known to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the six Studies which treat of politicians I have sought to set aside political predilections, and have refrained from expressing political opinions, though it has now and then been necessary to point out instances in which the subsequent course of events has shown the action of Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Gladstone to have been right or wrong (as the case may be) in the action they respectively took.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sketches of T. H. Green, E. A. Freeman, and J. R. Green were originally written for English magazines, and most of the other Studies have been published in the United States. All of those that had already appeared in print have been enlarged and revised, some indeed virtually rewritten. I have to thank the ix proprietors of the English Historical Review, the Contemporary Review, and the New York Nation, as also the Century Company of New York, for their permission to use so much of the matter of the volume as had appeared (in its original form) in the organs belonging to them respectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents include:\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-1881\u003cbr\u003eArthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster 1815-1881\u003cbr\u003eThomas Hill Green 1836-1882\u003cbr\u003eArchibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury 1811-1882\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Trollope 1815-1882\u003cbr\u003eJohn Richard Green 1837-1883\u003cbr\u003eSir George Jessel 1824-1883\u003cbr\u003eHugh M’Calmont Cairns, Earl Cairns 1819-1885\u003cbr\u003eJames Fraser, Bishop of Manchester 1818-1885\u003cbr\u003eStafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887\u003cbr\u003eCharles Stewart Parnell 1846-1891\u003cbr\u003eHenry Edward Manning, Archbishop and Cardinal 1808-1892\u003cbr\u003eEdward Augustus Freeman 1823-1892\u003cbr\u003eRobert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke 1811-1892\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Robertson Smith 1846-1894\u003cbr\u003eHenry Sidgwick 1838-1900\u003cbr\u003eEdward Ernest Bowen 1836-1901\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Lawrence Godkin 1831-1902\u003cbr\u003eJohn Emerich Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton 1834-1902\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898","brand":"WHITE DOG PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174964773104,"sku":"2940011842283","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011842283_p0.jpg?v=1763550234","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011842283","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}