Author: Adams, W. H. Davenport:
Title: A Book Of Earnest Lives.
Description: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1885 H/B 2nd Ed., VG, green cloth bds with gilt pge edges and decoration, spine a little age-darkened and bumped at ends, small dent in rear leading edge and scattering of discol. at btm edge, contents nice and tight with tissue-protected b/w frontis. and further plates through text. A nice sound copy. Chapters divided under the headings: Work and Workers in the Educational Field; Work on Behalf of the Slave; Work and Workers in the Mission Field; Prison Reform and "The Poor Are Always With Us...".

Keywords: missionaries workers education slave trade slaves prisons poor Dean Colet Roger Ascham Lady Mary Montagu Dean Swift Robert Raikes Dr Bell John Williams Lord Brougham Dr Arnold William Wilberforce