The Competition Wallah

The Competition Wallah

Author: Trevelyan, Sir George

12mo. (4.75" x 7.125") 1895. Trevelyan, Sir George. London and New York: MacMillan and Co. Full brown treecalf with fancy gilt rule to leather edges. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title on gilt framed red leather to second compartment, gilt author on gilt framed green leather to fourth, heavy gilt frames with centered gilt device to all others. Head of spine chipped with minor loss. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

From Wiki: Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM, PC, FBA (20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928) was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. He broke with Gladstone over the 1886 Irish Home Rule Bill, but after modifications were made to the bill he re-joined the Liberal Party shortly afterwards. Also a writer and historian, Trevelyan wrote his novel The Competition Wallah in around 1864, and The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, his maternal uncle, in 1876. During his stay in India, Trevelyan contributed "Letters of a Competition Wallah" to Macmillan's Magazine (republished 1864). Cawnpore, an account of the massacre there during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was published in 1865. In 1867 he wrote The Ladies in Parliament, a humorous political brochure in verse. In 1876 he published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (a second, enlarged edition appeared in 1908), and in 1880 he published The Early History of Charles James Fox. In 1899 he published the first volume of a History of the American Revolution, which was completed (three volumes) in 1905. In the latter year, as Interludes in Prose and Verse, he republished his early classical "jeux d'esprit" and Indian pieces. He published two volumes of his work George III and Charles Fox in 1912 and 1914.

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