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selves, men of whom England expected each one “to do his duty.”
After the portrait by Sir Peter Lely, in the Pitti Gallery, Florence
OLIVER CROMWELL AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-ONE.
This story of “The Lion's Whelp” will show very enthusiastically and clearly just what this hope of the Puritans was. and how Cromwell bore himself, both as captain and statesman, and even in the privacy of his own family. It gives many other portraits of the famous “Ironsides,” as Cromwell's immediate followers were called, and of the opposing cavaliers, though these latter are hardly drawn as justly. Prince Rupert was no saint, so much is beyond a doubt: but he had his good qualities, ruffian and swash-buckler as he was.
In conjunction with this book by Mrs. Barr, you should also read her “Friend Olivia,” which depicts Quaker life in the early Roundhead days, and is a charming story in itself. Cromwell also71
