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THE WORLD
OF CANT
“Daily Telegraph.”—“Decidedly a book with a purpose.”
“Scotsman.”—“A vigorous, clever, and almost ferocious exposure, in the form of a story, of the numerous shams and injustices.”
“Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.”—“Trenchant in sarcasm, warm in commendation of high purpose.... A somewhat remarkable book.”
“London Figaro.”—“It cannot be said that the author is partial; clergymen and Nonconformist divines, Liberals and Conservatives, lawyers and tradesmen, all come under his lash.... The sketches are worth reading. Some of the characters are portrayed with considerable skill.”
“May the Lord deliver us from all Cant: may the Lord, whatever else He do or forbear, teach us to look facts honestly in the face, and to beware (with a kind of shudder) of smearing them over with our despicable and damnable palaver into irrecognisability, and so falsifying the Lord’s own Gospels to His unhappy blockheads of Children, all staggering down to Gehenna and the everlasting Swine’s-trough, for want of Gospels.