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THE LIFE OF GEORGE SMITH, OF COALVILLE.

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“Readers of Mr. Smith’s letters in numerous papers, and of his descriptive articles in the Illustrated London News, Graphic, and other journals and magazines, will be glad to possess this little work, which tells the story of his career in a brief but interesting manner. The book is elegantly printed on good paper, and is embellished with an excellent portrait and with an engraving of Mr. Smith among the Gipsy children.”—Capital and Labour.

“This is ‘a chapter’ in philanthropy, yet it contains three times as much in the way of practical philanthropy as would suffice to make any man a benefactor to his generation. His devoted, self-denying, persistent, and successful endeavours on behalf of the brick-yard children, the canal population, and more recently the Gipsy ‘arabs,’ of our country and time, are concisely and vividly set forth in this neat volume.”—The Christian.

“The name of George Smith, and his noble work amongst the canal-boat folk and the Gipsies, have become familiar and welcome to multitudes in Great Britain. This volume is an excellent sketch of Mr. Smith; it contains a capital likeness, and should be read by all who desire to possess increasing zeal in rescuing the perishing.”—Christian Age.

“A smartly written biography of a man who may be justly termed the Children’s Friend. It is well got up, and contains an excellent portrait of the great social reformer. It is well that this fascinating sketch should be given to the world.”—Literary World.

“In this book we are presented with a sketch of the life and labours—labours which have been attended with a large measure of success—of one of the most devoted of living philanthropists.”—Scotsman.

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OUR CANAL POPULATION: a cry from the boat cabins, with remedy.

New Edition, with Supplement. By GEORGE SMITH, F.S.A., Coalville, Leicester.

“A little book called ‘Our Canal Population,’ lately published and written by Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, furnishes the most incredible details of what is going on on our silent highways.”—Morning Advertiser.

“The notorious state of ‘Our Canal Population,’ the women and children who live on barges, and in whose condition Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, has awakened public interest, is described as ‘revolting and intolerable.’ If only a part of the statements made were true it would be enough to make the ears of them that hear it tingle for pity and shame.”—Daily News.

“Although the statements made by Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, in ‘Our Canal Population,’ were doubtless, in some instances, open to the charge of exaggeration, in the main they were largely correct. Mr. Smith has earned the thanks of the community in this philanthropic object, as he previously earned our thanks for his efforts to ameliorate the condition of children in the brick-yards.”—Standard.

“Canal Boats.—On the 1st inst. came into operation an Act (the 40 and 41 Vic., c. 60) which is calculated to do much good. Hitherto ‘Our Canal Population’ were left pretty much to themselves. They were considered outside the pale of local and educational authorities. They were permitted to live in their boats as they pleased, and to bring up their children without any interference from school authorities. Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, whose efforts on behalf of the children employed in brick-fields were attended with such beneficial results, turned his attention to ‘Our Canal Population,’ and the credit likely to be won by the passing of the Act of last Session will be mainly his.”—The Times.

“Mr. George Smith, of Coalville, who has done so much for the well-being of ‘Our Canal Population,’ is now busied in attempts to ameliorate the condition of juvenile Gipsies.”—Daily Telegraph.

“This gentleman represents by name, at least, a very large family, but he has won for himself considerable distinction among the ‘Smiths’ for his unparalleled efforts to ameliorate the wretched condition of ‘Our Canal Population’ on the English canals, the women and children working in the brick-yards, and the Gipsy children.”—Christian Herald.

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THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN FROM THE BRICK-YARDS OF ENGLAND, AND HOW THE CRY HAS BEEN HEARD,

With Observations on the Carrying-out of the Act.

By GEORGE SMITH, of Coalville, Leicester. sixth edition.

“We heartily commend to our readers’ notice a new edition of a work which is full of thrilling interest to those who sympathise with childhood, whose hearts bleed at the story of its wrongs and leap for joy at any humane or beneficial measures on its behalf.”—Sunday School Chronicle.

“This book, now in its sixth edition, has many capital illustrations, and is a monument to the patient self-denial and unwearying zeal brought to bear in favour of the poor children by the author.”—Weekly Times.

“His cry for the protection for the helpless little ones is one that must assuredly command attention.”—Daily Chronicle.

“This book is the record of a splendid service nobly done. The author is likewise the hero of it. The value of the book is enhanced by the careful and tasteful manner in which Messrs. Haughton have fulfilled their share of the undertaking.”—Derby Reporter.

“This is a title of an interesting work. The whole forms a most interesting record of a noble-hearted work. We hope the book will meet, as it deserves, with an increasingly large circulation.”—Derbyshire Advertiser.

“‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘Our Canal Population’ are unique in many ways. They have brought prominently before public attention two unsuspected blots upon our civilisation. We wish any word of our’s could give still wider publicity to his self-denying labours.”—Live Stock Journal.

“Mr. Smith writes with vehement energy, which he puts into everything he does. Some will perhaps think that his language is occasionally too little measured, but then it is probable that a man of more delicacy of feeling and expression would have never undertaken, and we think it is certain that he would never have carried through, the work which Mr. George Smith has accomplished. That work is of no small value.”—Staffordshire Sentinel.

“A good deal of new matter is inserted in this edition, including an interesting account of the history and progress of the movement. . . . The volume is certainly worthy of a careful perusal.”—Birmingham Gazette.

“In it is written the author’s account of his single-handed struggle for the emancipation of the poor children of the brick-yards—a struggle long and patiently sustained, and which at last, in 1872, met with its past merited reward in freeing 10,000 of these little ones from their dark slavery.”—The Graphic.

“This is a deeply interesting book, both from the facts which it sets forth and the cause it advocates.”—Christian Age.

“Every true philanthropist will read with deep interest Mr. Smith’s account of the history and the passing of the Act, which marks one of the brightest victories yet won over prejudice and self-interest in the United Kingdom.”—Derby Mercury.

“This excellently got-up work will strike a cord of sympathy in the bosoms of all who are interested in the works of Christianity and philanthropy. . . . Should find a place upon every book-shelf because its contents are of thrilling interest. . . . The book is essentially a statement of facts, and no one can peruse its pages without feeling the impulse of the living spirit which breathes in this ‘Cry of the Children.’”—Potteries Examiner.

“Mr. George Smith has, in his ‘Cry of the Children from the Brick-yards of England,’ raised issues too serious, and advanced pleas too passionate, to be treated with indifference.”—Daily Telegraph.

“In the present volume, which contains a number of excellent woodcuts, we have gathered up the full story of the evils which used to prevail, which in the hands of a person of less moral courage and perseverance than Mr. Smith would have failed.”—Leicester Daily Post.

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Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.

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Methodism in 1879: Impressions of the Wesleyan Church and Its Ministers.

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