A Short History of English Liberalism Part 14

"'My Life' is really an enchanting book, forcefully and modestly written, and ought to be read by all who care anything at all about the betterment of the conditions of the vast majority of their fellow creatures."

_The Yorks.h.i.+re Observer_ says:

"Whatever our political sympathies may be, we cannot withhold respect and admiration from the veteran soldier in the people's cause, who tells us here with so much modesty and simplicity the cause of the war."

_The Globe_ says:

"The autobiography can be cordially commended to the English public, and whatever our views as to Herr Bebel's ideas may be, this story of his life will be found both instructive and of real interest."

_The Nation_ says:

"It contains an excellent account of the development of modern German political parties, as seen by a firm and convinced democrat, and is indispensable to students of the history of Socialism on the Continent."

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 Adelphi Terrace, London

THE TYRANNY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE

BY F. E. GREEN

Author of "The Awakening of England," "The Cottage Farm," &c.

Crown 8vo, cloth, 5S. net.

In this book the reader is shown the root causes of rural decay under that dominating tyranny which, in spite of rural Magna Chartas, hangs like a blight over England. The book is not a political pamphlet--it is something more. The author, like Cobbett, a tiller of the soil, and living the life of the yeoman farmer, understands those hards.h.i.+ps that eventually drive the labourer from the land. He has attempted the difficult task of making the country labourer vocal.

"The mantle of William Cobbett has certainly fallen upon the shoulders of Mr. F. E. Green, who wears the adornment with grace and rigour alike."--_Daily Telegraph._

"It is an amazing revelation of countryside tyranny in its manifold forms."--_Daily Herald._

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 Adelphi Terrace, London

HOW CRIMINALS ARE MADE AND PREVENTED

A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS

BY THE

Rev. J. W. HORSLEY, M.A.

Hon. Canon of Southwark, late and last Chaplain of Clerkenwell Prison.

Ill.u.s.trated. Cloth, 7S. 6D. net.

Ever since his Chaplaincy of Clerkenwell prison, Canon Horsley has been a keen student of crime and its causes and an active worker in prison and social reform.

His new book deals largely with commercial morality as a cause of crime, but also with the general moral and social improvement in London (and some exceptions); progress in prison reform; increase in betting as a cause of crime; intemperance (especially amongst women) as a cause; infantile mortality; the medical care of the school-child; the transformation of the lads on the wrong path; the reformation of the hooligan; and recent literature on crime.

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 Adelphi Terrace, London

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTION: ILl.u.s.tRATED BY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

BY

GUSTAVE LE BON

Author of "The Crowd."

TRANSLATED BY BERNARD MIALL

Demy 8vo. Cloth, 10S. 6D. net.

M. Le Bon lays special stress upon the fact that there are not only a rational logic, but also affective, mystic, and collective logics, and that beliefs such as lie at the root of revolutionary movements cannot be created or destroyed by reason, because they do not lie in its domain: whence their extraordinary power. He also deals with the phenomena of mental contagion, and with the part played by the lower elements of the populace--the semi-criminal crowd--in times of revolution. A large part of the book deals with the great French revolution, a.n.a.lysing it and applying to its problems the methods of the new psychology. The third portion treats of modern developments of the revolutionary principles and faith, including the Syndicalist movement.

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 Adelphi Terrace, London

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