nce
have been written by well-known authors, it is more difficult for a boy
to satisfy his curiosity about Lister, Patteson, or Green; and of Morier
no complete life has yet been published.

I am indebted to Mr. Emery Walker for assistance in the selection of the
portraits.

Three of my friends have been kind enough to read parts of the book and
to give me advice: the Rev. A. T. P. Williams and Mr. C. E. Robinson, my
colleagues here, and Mr. Nowell Smith, Head Master of Sherborne. I owe
much also to the good judgement of Mr. Milford's reader. If I venture to
thank them for their help, they are in no way responsible for my
mistakes. Writing in the intervals of school-mastering I have no doubt
been guilty of many, and I shall be grateful if any reader will take the
trouble to inform me of those which he detects.

G.H.B.

WINCHESTER,

_April 1920._

LIST OF PORTRAITS

Thomas Carlyle
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

Sir Robert Peel
From the painting by J. LINNELL in the National Portrait Gallery.

Sir Charles Napier
From the drawing by EDWIN WILLIAMS in the National Portrait Gallery.

Lord Shaftesbury
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

Lord Lawrence
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

John Bright
From the painting by W. W. OULESS in the National Portrait Gallery.

Charles Dickens
From the painting by DANIEL MACLISE in the National Portrait Gallery.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

Charles Kingsley
From a drawing by W. S. HUNT in the National Portrait Gallery.

George Frederick Watts
From a painting by himself in the National Portrait Gallery.

John Coleridge Patteson
From a drawing by WILLIAM RICHMOND.
(_By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd._)

Sir Robert Morier
From a drawing by WILLIAM RICHMOND.
(_By kind permission of Mr. Edward Arnold._)

Lord Lister
From a photograph by MESSRS. BARRAUD.

William Morris
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

John Richard Green
From a drawing by FREDERICK SANDYS.
(_By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd._)

Cecil Rhodes
From the painting by G. F. WATTS in the National Portrait Gallery.

INTRODUCTION

THE VICTORIAN ERA

We like to fancy, when critics are not at our elbow, that each Ag