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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell (1845–1937)

Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir. An English politician and miscellaneous writer; born, Jan. 8, 1845; died in 1937. He was a Member of Parliament after 1880; was a lord of the treasury 1886–92, member of the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor in 1893. He wrote: ‘Passages in Life of Sir Lucian Elphin’ (1889); ‘The Art of Love’ (1890); ‘The Letter of the Law’ (1891), all novels; ‘Meridiana: Noontide Essays’ (1892); ‘British Fresh Water Fishes’; ‘A Century of Empire’ (1909–11).