Published by Auckland University College, 1940, 242 pages. Foxed dustjacket, with tears and pieces missing from spine, especially at top and bottom - these have been repaired internally with brown paper, with dustjacket covered with plastic to protect. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper, small sticker of bookshop bottom inside of front cover, foxing to page edges.

It was inevitable ... that the old order should stamp its pattern indelibly upon the new ... the authors of this book ... have therefore turned their telescopes upon Victorian England. What kind of civilization was it that was brought to this country? What views did men hold about the universe? What was their philosophy of life? What were their political instincts and theories? ... These are some of the questions which this books sets itself to answer. Each author in his own field of learning makes his contribution to the picture. - from the foreword by W H Cocker