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.
Crown 8vo, 216 pages. Price, paper covers, 1s.; post free, 1s. 2d. Cloth binding, with Portrait, 2s., post free.