Good Men (Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1)

Rating:
Summary: A chatty, old-fashioned travel log
Review: Some of these old books are so much more fun than newer, dry travel logs to read! The author gives brief accounts of visiting the homes of famous writers: George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Wm.E. Gladstone, J.M.W.Turner, Jonathan Swift, Victor Hugo, Wm.Wordsworth, W.M. Thackery, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare. The 1895 Putnam ed. (366 pgs.) has a blue cloth cover with gold lettering & design, gold on top edge, and is illus. with black & white etchings of each famous man.

Rating:
Summary: A chatty, old-fashioned travel log
Review: Some of these old books are so much more fun than newer, dry travel logs to read! The author gives brief accounts of visiting the homes of famous writers: George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Wm.E. Gladstone, J.M.W.Turner, Jonathan Swift, Victor Hugo, Wm.Wordsworth, W.M. Thackery, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare. The 1895 Putnam ed. (366 pgs.) has a blue cloth cover with gold lettering & design, gold on top edge, and is illus. with black & white etchings of each famous man.