BY HENRY MAYHEW Now ready, the Extra Volume, large Svo, cloth, price 10s. 6d. THOSE THAT WILL NOT WORK With Introductory Essay on the Agencies at present in operation in the Metropolis for the suppression of Vice and Crime BY THE REV. WILLIAM TUCKNISS, B.A. With Numerous Illustrations THE class of individuals treated of in this volume are the Non-Workers, or in other words, the Dangerous Classes of the Metropolis; and every endeavour has been made to obtain correct information, not only through the assistance of the police authorities, but by an expenditure of much time and research among the unfortunates themselves. Their favourite haunts, and the localities in London wherein they chiefly congregate, as well as their modes of existence, are accurately described; in addition to which have been inserted very many deeply interesting autobiographies, faithfully transcribed from their own lips, which go very far to unveil the intricate schemes of villany and crime that abound in the Metropolis. Every phase of vice has been investigated and treated of, in order that all possible information that can prove interesting to the moralist, the philanthropist, and the statist, as well as to the general puplic, might be afforded. A few of the Opinions of the Press, abridged. The Saturday Review says, "That portion of this voluminous investigation which relates to the Social Evil we leave to those whom it may concern. But the details surprise, amuse, or pain us, in spite of our general anticipation of their con tents." The Manchester Examiner says," Mr. Mayhew has made a romance out of what would present itself to most people as the most prosaic of subjects." The Glasgow Citizen says,"We may safely affirm that few romances in modern times could match in interest the terrible array of character produced in this dark gallery of sin and crime." The Wesleyan Times says,-"For the man who requires a thorough insight into human character, motives, and designs, this is one of the most serviceable books ever written." The Bookseller says,-"In order to accomplish this work, he went amongst them. learned their habits and their ways, and overcoming the prejudices and scruples of many, induced them to give an account of their own mode of life, and that of many of their friends." The Morning Advertiser says, “The philanthopist may well stand aghast in sorrowing despair as he sees and reads how the still small voice of humanity is being daily drowned in the clamour of the reprobate, the sensuality of the pleasureseeker and the whirling vortex of abandoned life, whether in the saloons of the wealthy debauchée, or the slums of the denizens of Seven Dials.'' The Edinburgh Mercury says, And hardly less, if not more marvellous are his revelitions of life drawn from his personal experience in the vilest haunts and the worst dens in the Modern Babylon of our land." The Spectator says,-" One of the most remarkable works of the period is undoubtedly Mr. Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.' In this volume we learn much more than we care to know about Thieves, Prostitutes, Swindlers, and Beggars, a subject of immence importance to legislators and philosophers." CHARLES GRIFFIN & COMPANY, LONDON, ROBERT BELL. WITH MEMOIRS, CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES, ETC. "If Mr. Bell had done nothing more than edit in a convenient and attainable form a correct text of these poems, with glossarial notes, he won'd have been entitied to the gratitude of the public. He has not only done this, but he has produced the most readable menoir of our great poet, Shakspeare, which we have yet seen: and this without sacrificing that minuteness and accuracy of detail necessary in a book which aspires to a permanent place on the shelves of a library. He has pointed out some new and interesting particulars, and corrected some errors respecting Shakspeare's life and works; and he bas directed the reader's attention to the lea ling characteristics of the poems in suggestive criticisms, which are all he more valuable for their modest brevity and simplicity." Fraser's Magazine says "We are sincerely persuaded that the arduous task of editor could not have been ontrusted to more competent bands than those of Mr. Robert Bel!. Mr. Bell well incrits the designation of a careful editor." Notes and Queries says — "It is not the smallest merit of this edition of the English Poets that the editor has ventured to throw new blood into its corpus, by introducing into the series the writings of some whose poetry had not received that honour at the hands of his predecessors." The Saturday Review says "The very useful series which Mr. Bell is editing, with generally sound judgment, and ever unwearied diigence." From The Daily Review, July 19, 1864. "With the merits of Mr. Robert Bell's edition of the English Foets, some of them, and that of Cowper is an instance, are really the best editions in the market. Mr. Bell is a model editor. Every obscurity is explained. Every noto illustrates." From The Edinburgh Mercury, July 9, 1864. "The tasteful eighteenpenny edition of the British Poots, edited by a gentleman than whom none are more competent in the field of English literature to do full justico to his subject. The Memoirs are admirably written, discriminating, and just." EARLY BALLADS. DRYDEN'S POEMS. VOL. I. To be followed by CHAUCER, &c. From The Scotsman, June 13, 1864. "This cheap re-issue of Mr. Beil's excellent ed tion of the English Poets begins most appropriately with Shas speare; and it is a great boon to get them in a beautifnily printed and carefully edited pocket volume for one sli ling or eighteenpence." From The Illustrated Times, Aug. 11, 1862. "It may be as well to remind the reader that the volumes are beautifully and plainly printed on good paper, and we would not think much of the man who would not feel his country ramble improved by having shilling's worth of raro Ben Jonson in his pocket." From The Wesleyan Times, Aug. 22, 1864. "Never before was a series of our best English Ports offere for public patronage, so well edited, printed, and boun and at so low a cost as the present issue. They are got up in a style fit for the drawing-room, the school, or for the library. The accuracy of the text is a feature to which we would call attention." 311 From Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, July 17, 1864. "Messrs. Griffin and Co deserve the most cordial su, port of the public for the undertaking on which they have ventured. They are bringing out Mr. Robert Bell's admirably compact edition of Our English Pocts' neat, portable, excellently printed volumes, for one shilling, or, bound in solid red covers, for eighteenpence This is to bring admirable roading completely within the reach of the million. The Poems of Shakespeare,' 'The Poems of Ben Jonson,' and the first volume of Poems of William Cowper,' have already appeared." The Saturday Review says of "Ben Jonson's Poems.'-Mr. Bell has really conferred a boon upon the reading public in bringing out an edition of this great poet's productions in a form at once popular and scholarlike. The Memoir is unaffected ant gentle maulike. The foot notes, besides affording a modest an judicious help to the reader, wherever the author's pon is obscure, supply full and accurate particulars of th contemporary customs and personages referred to in th. text." London: CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO., Stationers' Hall Court. |