"Studies in Contemporary Biography" by Viscount James Bryce Bryce
Bryce was a British academic, jurist, historian, and Liberal politician. In this book he gives concise biographies of various historic figures to give context to the changes and evolution of history and society. Those honored in the book include: Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, Thomas Hill Green, Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anthony Trollope, John Richard Green, Sir George Jessel, Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Earl Cairns, James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh, Charles Stewart Parnell, Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop and Cardinal, Edward Augustus Freeman, Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, William Robertson Smith, Henry Sidgwick, Edward Ernest Bowen, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, John Emerich Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, and William Ewart Gladstone.