Harold Begbie: 9 books

Seven years before Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement, Edward Harold Begbie published this biography (1900). Begbie focuses on phases of Baden-Powell’s life as a citizen as well as a soldier and hero of the Boer War—declaring him a suitable role model for young male readers.  

The author's biography is included in this version. The Life of General William Booth by Harold Begbie presents the biography of William Booth, a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General. The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure...

The author's biography is included in this version. The Life of General William Booth by Harold Begbie presents the biography of William Booth, a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General. The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure...

Works included in this collection: MY ADVENTURES AS A SPY by Lieut.-Gen. SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, first published in 1915. "Spies are like ghosts—people seem to have had a general feeling that there might be such things, but they did not at the same time believe in them—because they never...

Investigating the occult using deductive reasoning, esoteric knowledge and psychic ability, the Edwardian protagonists of these classic tales tackle haunted houses, diabolic possessions and more earthly deeds of greed, corruption and murder. In Harold Begbie's six tales of Andrew Latter (1904),...

The author's biography is included in this version. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality is a popular book by Harold Begbie, an English author and journalist who published nearly 50 books and poems and contributed to periodicals. Painted Windows is one of the nonfiction best...

This 1915 biography, published just a year before the dramatic death of its subject, looks behind the legend of Kitchener the machine to find a man possessed not of genius but rather tenacity and exceptional skills of organization and administration. Begbie takes time to look at the making of Kitchener, the facts of his career, the legend he had become, and “The Man Himself.”  

The author's biography is included in this version. The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Description: The Mirrors of Downing Street by a Gentleman with a Duster is one of the nonfiction best sellers in 1921. The author has brought together...