Famous boys, and how they became great men
Subtitle: dedicated to youths and young men as a stimulus to earnest living
Contributors: Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837-1882, illustrator, engraver
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Darton and Company
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Boys; Biography; Juvenile literature; Adventure and adventurers; Engineers; Millionaires; Clergy; Philosophers; Politicians; Authors
Notes: Some ill. signed: H.S. Melville.

"Truth is strange, stranger than fiction."

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Horace Greeley; title: James Gordon Bennett; title: George Stephenson and his son Robert, the railway kings; title: Lord Brougham; title: John Kitto; title: Hugh Miller; title: Samuel Drew; title: Thomas Cooper; title: William Jay; title: John Philpot Curran; title: Samuel Crompton; title: Elihu Burritt; title: Douglas Jerrold; title: David Livingstone; title: James Morrison; title: Joseph Sturge; title: Alderman Thomas Kelly.