Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

For the Honourable Hilary's modest needs one room sufficed, and the front parlour had not been used since poor Sarah Austen's demise, thirty years before this story opens.

Reproduction of the original: Mr. Crewe ́s Career by Winston Churchill

"Account, probably in part autobiographical, describing voyage to New Zealand in Sir Edward Paget, 1850, and life in the Auckland province, shipping timber in a schooner, trading etc., with return to England"--Bagnall.

This history therefore is mainly the story of old Coppenhall, whose two manors are recorded in Domesday book as 'Copehale'.

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

... Crewe was no gosling. Mr. Crewe, as politicalgeniuses will, asked as many questions as the emperor of Germany—pertinent questions about State politics. Senator Grady was tremendously impressed with his host's programme of bills, and ...

... Crewe's incessant trials , which would have taxed a less rugged nature , did not end here . About five o'clock one afternoon a pleasant - appearing gentleman with a mel- lifluous voice turned up who introduced himself as ex ( State ) ...