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: Ward, Lock, & Tyler
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Boys; Biography; Juvenile literature; Adventure and adventurers; Engineers; Millionaires; Clergy; Philosophers; Politicians; Authors
Notes: Date from inscription.

Some ill. signed: H.S. Melville.

Publisher's catalogue follows text.

"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: Alderman Thomas Kelly; title: Joseph Sturge.