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Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : $b A record of his lineage, speculations, last days and deathBelloc, Hilaire

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Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : $b A record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death

Name: Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : $b A record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death
Author: Belloc, Hilaire

Belloc, Hilaire

Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Satire

Cosmo Burden. From the only photograph which
  adequately renders the restrained but permanent
  sadness of his features                               ”     ”     23

  Mr Capes. (A chance study made for the publishers
  of “Rural England.” No other portrait was
  obtainable)                                           ”     ”     34

  Mr Harbury                                            ”     ”     42

  Mr Ashington, from a portrait—(under his country
  name of Mr Curlew)—in “Hosts and Hostesses
  of Rutlandshire”                                      ”     ”     53

  Lord George Hampton, Pioneer and Explorer, of
  whom mention is made on page 60. (From a
  sketch very kindly communicated by the artist,
  his sister, Lady Oona Hampton)                       ”     ”      55

  Captain Ronald. (By the kind permission of the Author
  and Publisher of “Rulers of Men”)                    ”     ”      60

  A “Moro-Kanu,” or member of the upper class of the
  Yaba. This class possesses most of the land, and
  obtains all the political direction of the Delta.
  Indeed it is from their domination of a closely
  aristocratic policy that the principal hopes of an
  imperial education of that province depend             ”     ”    62

  Lord Lambeth (Mr Barnett). From the portrait by
  Sir Henry Moseley, R.A., K.V.O.                        ”     ”    67

  The Editor of “The Doctrinaire.” (As he appeared
  reading his paper—“Causes of our success in
  South Africa,” to the Royal Society)                   ”     ”    95

  Lord Benthorpe preventing the disruption of the
  Empire                                                 ”     ”   116

  Mrs Warner’s retreating figure                         ”     ”   149

  Lord Benthorpe recognising the importance of business
  men to the Empire                                      ”     ”   151

  The Smile                                              ”     ”   158

  The Bishop of Shoreham (the Honourable the Rev.
  Peregrine Mauclerc) sitting as an assessor at the
  trial of Canon Cone for heresy, piracy, conspiracy
  and schism. An excellent likeness, which we take
  from the “Cone Trial Illustrated Supplement”
  of “Christian Soldiers”                                ”     ”   169

  Mr Burden offering to subscribe whatever may be
  necessary                                            ”     ”     181

  The Rev. Charles Gapworthy, B.A. (From a block
  very kindly lent by “The St Lazarus Hys Hostel
  Magazine: a Review of Social Progress”)              ”     ”     183

  Canon Cone in repose, discussing matters unconnected
  with dogma at the Duchess of Lavington’s. (A
  sketch purchased from her Grace’s secretary at
  the time, now door-keeper at the Variety, Bismark,
  P.A., U.S.A.)                                       ”     ”      184

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Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : $b A record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death

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