The New Era: Beacon Lights Of History

The New Era: Beacon Lights Of History

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Book Description
1885. Volume Seven of Eight. This volume contains Part II. The New Era: the achievement of the last fifty years as typified by certain representative characters. The Beacon Lights of History is a series of lectures by Dr. Lord, who has been called the artistic historian, setting forth the great epochs and master minds of civilization-a biographical history of the world's life. Contents Part II. Richard Wagner: Modern Music by Finck; John Ruskin: Modern Art by Adam; Herbert Spencer: The Evolutionary Philosopher by Hazeltine; Charles Darwin: His Place in Modern Science by Hazeltine; John Ericsson: Navies of War and Commerce by Durand; Li Hung Chang: The Far East by Martin; David Livingstone: African Development by Adams; Sir Austen Henry Layard: Modern Archaeology by Ward; Michael Faraday: Electricity and Magnetism by Houston; and Rudolf Virchow: Medicine and Surgery by Foster. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417942932.

The New Era: Beacon Lights Of History,John Lord,Kessinger Publishing,1417942967,History,History - General History,History: World,World - General

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