A small purple-coloured, hard-backed book with the title transversely imprinted above the author, and repeated vertically along the spine with bold imprint shadow, and the publisher in small print transversely at the bottom, all in silver. The front of the cover has a small emblematic torchbearer imprinted in silver. The fly-leaf repeats, in black, the title and emblem, beneath which is printed: 'Lives to Remember'and on the other side is a frontispiece consisting of a loosely sketched but attractive etching showing a top-hatted Barnardo holding a torch, rather than a lantern, revealing a scrappy child in tatters climbing out of a crate in a street with a quayside background. Beneath is printed: 'Finding one of his "First Family" Chapter IV

The title page has 'Lives to Remember' at the top, followed by the title in large imprint shadow, and the author, beneath which is 'Illustrated by Richard Kennedy' who supplies six more apposite but untitled sketches of which five are based upon well-known episodes in Barnardo's East London work, such as Jim Jarvis, Lodging House encounter, Carrots, the Lord Shaftesbury Expedition, and an emigration party, and the last is made from the well-published Board Room photograph. The publisher's London basis at the foot of the page is repeated overleaf with the addition of Soho Square, under the publication year, and the printers are the Bowering Press in Plymouth.

The Contents list VIII chapters with succinct titles of classroom emphasis, occupying 95 pages, and the end page lists seven titles already published in the 'Lives to Remember' series: Helen Keller, St. Paul, Louis Pasteur, Isaac Newton, John Wesley, Gertrude Bell, and Barnardo, with Nansen, George and Robert Stephenson, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson still to come.

Comment: An attractive presentation of Barnardo, among a group of distinguished contributors to history, designed for schoolroom readers.

No sources are indicated but the account of Barnardo's family and childhood is told in simple style and detail, emphasising personality and educational activity more than evangelical endeavour, and it is the teaching activities of Barnardo, and his relationship with such as Jim Jarvis and Carrots described in his own language that set the tone of this book. The development of the Girls Village Home in the face of opposition to something so uninstitutional is well told, and much space is given to parental opposition to his work.

The criticisms by Reynolds and others that led to the Arbitration Enquiry is given in terms of antipathy and vindication, and on p.83, the author slips into the first person to say that a quite full account of Barnardo's association with the Jack the Ripper murders exemplified how he turned this to good service in the provision of safe houses for young girls.

The final chapter starts with the Board Room sketch and succinctly relates his compassion and hard work to his untimely death.

Comment:A good presentation of Barnardo to students at school.