A

BOOK OF EARNEST LIVES

BY

W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS

Author of "Celebrated Women Travellers," "Battle Stories from English and European History," ""Girlhood of Remarkable Women," etc.

DA 28.9 A 22 1874

901203-190

INSCRIBED,

WITH CORDIAL REGARDS,

TO THE

REV. F. T. SWINBURN, D.D.,

VICAR OF ACOCK'S GREEN,

WHO, IN HIS PARISH AS ELSEWHERE,

HAS ALWAYS

PROVED HIMSELF A "GOOD SAMARITAN.'