Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches

In this historical novel, author Justin McCarthy offers a number of sketches of a biographical nature on the lives of various historical figures. The sketches cover persons like Queen Victoria, Louis Napoleon, French Empress Eugenie, King Victor Emanuel of Italy, Brigham Young, George Eliot, George Sands, Edward Bulwer, John Ruskin and the Reverend Charles Kingsley, among others. They also cover other subjects such as the Triumvirate of England, English Positivists and English 'Toryism' and its Leaders.