SIR ROWLAND HILL
COBDEN AS A CITIZEN
A Chapter in Manchester History. Containing a facsimile of Cobden's pamphlet, “Incorporate your Borough,” with an Introduction and a complete Cobden Bibliography, by William E. A. Oxon. With 7 Photogravure Plates, and 3 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo, half parchment, 21s. net.
COILLARD OF THE ZAMBESI
The Lives of Francois and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, 1834-1904. By C. W. Mackintosh. With a Photogravure Frontispiece, a Map, and 64 other Illustrations. Second Edition. Demy 8vo, 15s. net.
THE LIFE OF RICHARD COBDEN
By the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. With Photogravure Portrait from the Original Drawing by Lowes Dickinson. 2 vols. Large Crown 8vo, 7s. the set. Also a “Popular” Edition. 1 vol. Large Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. net.
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SIR ROWLAND HILL
THE STORY OF A GREAT REFORM
TOLD BY HIS DAUGHTER
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
ADELPHI TERRACE
MCMVII
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ROWLAND HILL ANDCAROLINE PEARSON
(Born December 3, 1795, (Born November 25, 1796,
Died August 27, 1879) Died May 27, 1881)
THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN
BY
THEIR LAST REMAINING IMMEDIATE DESCENDANT
ELEANOR C. SMYTH
“A fond desire to preserve the memory of those we love fromoblivion is an almost universal sentiment.”
—(Lord Dufferin on his mother—Songs, Poems, and
Verses. By Helen, Lady Dufferin.)
“Reform does not spell ruin, lads—remember Rowland Hill!”
—(Punch on the Postal Reform Jubilee, 1890.)
In Gladstone's “'musings for the good of man,'”writes John Morley in his Life of the dead statesman(ii. 56, 57), the “Liberation of Intercourse, toborrow his own larger name for Free Trade, figuredin his mind's eye as one of the promoting conditionsof abundant employment.... He recalled theda