Heroes of modern crusades
Subtitle: true stories of the undaunted chivalry of champions of the down-trodden in many lands
By: by Edward Gilliat; with sixteen illustrations.
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott company; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Reformers
Notes: Printed in Great Britain.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: The crusade against slavery.; title: The waste of human life.; title: The end of the British slave-trade.; title: American slavery.; title: Abraham Lincoln.; title: St. Vincent de Paul.; title: John Howard and prisons.; title: Oberlin in Alsace.; title: Sir Samuel Romilly.; title: Temperance crusades: the facts.; title: Father Mathews.; title: Lord Shaftesbury and the poor.; title: General Gordon and "his kings".; title: Sir George Williams and the Y.M.C.A.; title: The Polytechnic and Quintin Hogg.; title: Dr. Grenfell and the deep sea.; title: Dr. Grenfell and the coming of the reindeer.; title: Dr. Barnardo.