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A SERIES OF POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES
EDITED BY
STUART J. REID.

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THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G.
BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, D.C.L.

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‘There is something in Mr. Froude’s account even of these years which will be new to Lord Beaconsfield’s admirers as well as to his critics, and will contribute to the final estimate of his place in the annals of our generation.’—Times (Leader).

‘We believe that Mr. Froude’s estimate of Lord Beaconsfield, on the whole, will be the one accepted by posterity.... It is the man’s character which interests us; and this, we think, Mr. Froude has exhibited in its true light, and in colours that will not fade.’—Standard.

LORD MELBOURNE

BY HENRY DUNCKLEY (‘VERAX’).

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‘It is hard to imagine a better piece of work than this short study of Lord Melbourne by Mr. Dunckley. Amongst some of the most amusing of Mr. Dunckley’s pages—and hardly a page of this little book is dull after the preliminary matter is passed by—is his account of Lord Melbourne’s dealings with theology and Church preferments.... Of two lives of the Queen’s Prime Ministers which have as yet appeared, we certainly give the preference to Mr. Dunckley’s over Mr. Froude’s. Mr. Froude had the more attractive theme, but Mr. Dunckley has made more of the less interesting theme.’—Spectator.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.

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‘Mr. McCarthy relates clearly and well the main incidents of Peel’s political life, and deals fairly with the great controversies which still rage about his conduct in regard to the Roman Catholic Relief Bill and the Repeal of the Corn Laws.’

Saturday Review.

‘Mr. McCarthy’s chapters on Catholic Emancipation are written with admirable impartiality, and he does ample justice to that high-minded administrator, Lord Anglesey.’—Athenæum.

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BY G. W. E. RUSSELL.
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‘Written in a manly and independent spirit, which we should expect in one of his lineage ... an honest book.’—World.

‘One of the most complete and succinct accounts of his extraordinary career that we have yet received.... A volume which we may specially commend as the most attractive and authoritative history of the man with whom it deals that has yet been given to the world.... Mr. Russell’s clear and able sketch of one whom he is justly proud to call his friend.’—Speaker.

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BY H. D. TRAILL, D.C.L.
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LORD PALMERSTON

BY THE MARQUIS OF LORNE.

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THE EARL OF DERBY

BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

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‘A biography distinguished throughout by scrupulous fairness to its subject.... It is perhaps superfluous to add that the book is written with all Mr. Saintsbury’s customary animation of style, and that it abounds in those shrewd and often humorous comments on men and affairs which enliven everything he writes.’

Saturday Review.

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN

BY SIR ARTHUR GORDON, G.C.M.G. &c.

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‘This little book, unlike its companion volumes, contains original documents of solid historical importance, and hitherto no authentic biography of Lord Aberdeen has existed, and the editor of the series certainly made a large demand upon Sir Arthur Gordon’s good nature when he requested a biography compressed within the limits prescribed. The author, however, has surmounted all difficulties with admirable skill.’—Athenæum.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

BY STUART J. REID.

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The book contains a good deal of new material concerning the career of the last of the great Whig statesmen. The Dowager-Countess of Russell has given Mr. Reid access to her own journals, and has personally taken a lively interest in the book; while other relatives, intimate friends, and political associates have lent their assistance.

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