Heroes of modern crusades; true stories of the undaunted chivalry of champions of the down-trodden in many lands,

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Main Author: Gilliat, Edward, 1841-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, Seeley Company; [etc., etc.] 1909 [1908]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The crusade against slavery
  • The waste of human life
  • The end of the British slave-trade
  • American slavery
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • St. Vincent de Paul
  • John Howard and prisons
  • Oberlin in Alsace
  • Sir Samuel Romilly
  • Temperance crusades: the facts
  • Father Mathew
  • Lord Shaftesbury and the poor
  • General Gordon and "his kings."--Sir George Williams and the U.M.C.A
  • The Polytechnic and Quintin Hogg
  • Dr. Grenfell and the deep sea
  • Dr. Grenfell and the coming of the reindeer
  • Dr. Barnardo.