Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green clith with gilt titles on front and spine, 340 pages. Illustrated with several photographs, top edge gilt. Essays on the literary and political figures of the 1860s, including Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackery, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Richard Owen, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir Richard Burton, Lady Burton, J.A. Blake, Sir Patrick O"Brien, Lady Russell, Lord John Russell, Garibaldi, Robert Keeley, John Arthur Roebuck, Lord Clarence Paget, Thorold Rogers, and Goldwin Smith. Justin McCarthy (1830 ? 1912) was an Irish nationalist, a Liberal historian, a novelist and a politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1879 to 1900 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and an ardent proponent of Irish Home Rule. He is perhaps best remembered for his five volume work--A History of Our Own Times which covers the Victorian Era from Queen Victoria"s accession to her Diamond Jubilee.
 "Portraits of the Sixties by: McCarthy, Justin")