The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

by William Black

LONDON

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1882

[NOTE.—The following sketch of the founding of a Co-operative Association by four Scotch boys was originally meant for young people; but subsequently the writer ventured to think that it might prove equally interesting, or even more interesting, to grown-up folk, especially as parts of it are based on fact; and so it is now printed here for the first time.]