Monckton Milnes Volumes I and II Author:Pope-Hennessy, James. TWO VOLUMES so please give me TWO points credit. First Edition. Ex-library, with usual markings, otherwise V. GOOD. No DJ. Spot rear endpaper. — A detailed and well written recounting and evaluation of Lord Houghton's life; "In after years the Fryston library contained an enormous quantity of criminal trials--far more than the usual compleme... more »nt of a country-house library of the day. Amongst these ranks of well-bound books on murder were a series of brown-paper scrap-albums with the letters and relics of particularly odious criminals pasted in, accompanied by newspaper accounts of their owners. In Monckton Milnes, as in many other reformers, a desire to correct or alleviate some form of crime or of injustice was coupled with a fascinated interest iin its actual commission."« less