Good Words for 1865

Published by Strahan and Co, London 1865. A book of serialisations, essays, poems and articles, many appearing for the first time including Charles Kingsley's Hereward, The last of the English.
Many, many illustrations including a fold-out of Jerusalem and Mount Zion which is reproduced below. Illustrators include Robert Barnes, Paul Gray, T. Sulman, Edward Hughes, and others.

Amongst the articles are Alfred Hagart's Household, thirty chapters by Alexander Smith, Notes on the Balkan by G. Muir Mackenzie and A. p. Irby. Christ The Light of The World by C. J. Vaughan, Our Convicts by Catherine Winkworth. Eastward By The Editor, Greeks and the Greek Church in London By William Gilbert.

Our Indian Heroes by John William Kaye which comprises a biography of each of the following: Sir Henry Lawrence, The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, Sir Alexander Burnes, the Rev. Henry Martyn, Captain Arthur Conolly, General Neill, Lord Cornwallis, Brigadier-General Nicholson, Sir John Malcolm, Sir Charles Metcalfe, Major Eldred Pottinger and Major D'Arcy Todd.

Jewish Sects, A Warning Against Modern Tendencies by Rev J. Ll. Davies. The Reign of Law by The Duke of Argyll. President Lincoln Judged On His Own Words by J. M. Ludlow. Lessons From A Shoemaker's Stool by John Kerr. Some Thoughts On Strikes and Lock-Outs by J. M. Ludlow.

Besides more articles and essays, there are also a number of poems scattered throughout the book, the first being A Meditation Of St. Eligus by George Macdonald.