alf."--_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