MR. C. EDWARDS LESTER’S NEW WORK
In two vols. 12mo. beautifully printed and embellished by finely engraved plates from
designs of Chapman.
THE CONDITION AND FATE OF ENGLAND.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND.”
Price $1 75.
The above new work is designed as a continuation and summing up of the arguments comprised in the author’s former volumes, “The Glory and Shame of England;” it presents a graphic picture of the actual condition of the English people, deduced from statistical documents of unimpeachable authority;—developing scenes of terrific and startling interest descriptive of the appalling distress of the British manufacturing classes, including notices of the present portentous aspect of affairs in that country.
The following is a synopsis of the topics comprised in these interesting volumes:—
Book I. Embraces a view of the power and magnificence of the British Empire, with illustrations of the spirit of the feudal and of the modern age.
Book II. The general condition of the mass of the British people in past ages,—their burdens and sufferings during centuries of unrelieved oppression.