The historian and statesman James Bryce sketches twenty men he had watched or known, from Disraeli to judges, scholars and churchmen such as Dean Stanley, the philosopher T. H. Green, Archbishop Tait, Anthony Trollope, the historian J. R. Green, Sir George Jessel, Charles Stewart Parnell and Cardinal Manning. Each essay weighs character as well as career.
Shrewd, first-hand portraits of the Victorian establishment by one of its most perceptive members. Download the free EPUB.