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ESSAYS, TALES, etc., etc.; ey WILLIAM DAWBARN > AUTHOR OF "GOVERNMENT, CONDUCT, AND EXAMPLE." SECOND EDITION. LONDON : ARTHUR HALL, AND CO. LIVERPOOL : JAMES WOLLARD, CASTLE STREET. 1872. THIS LITTLE BOOK IS INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR, WITH MUCH PLEASURE AND AFFECTION, TO HIS CHILDREN, AS THE FRUIT OF SOME OF THAT LEISURE WHICH, AMIDST MANY MERCANTILE ENGAGEMENTS, HE HAS STILL BEEN ABLE TO SECURE BY THE CAREFUL HUSBANDRY OF HIS TIME. CONTENTS. TAJLES. PAGE. Tales of Travel :— The Unknown, No. 1 49 The Orphan, No. 2 68 The Spirit Dealer, No. 3 85 The Lost Parcel, No. 4 123 The Escape, No. ft 170 The Third-Class Passenger, No. 6 191 The Blind Painter's Daughter, No. 7 199 George Johnson, No. 8 205 The Miss of a Commercial, No. 9 228 Reminiscences of a Coachman 268 ESSAYS. Smith Thomas, Writings of 1 Ignorance, Popular 33 Market Days in Manufacturing Towns : — Rochdale 41 Huddersfield 78 Bradford 117 Coventry 149 Union Houses Gl Ladies, Lectures to 73 Commercial Rooms 105 Literary Life, Notes of a (Miss Mitford) 132 Gold Finding 15g Gold and Labour 160 Labour lg4 National Banking 35I Health, versus Temperature 187 Thread Lace 213 Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire 218 Emigration 223 Pope, The Poetry of 234 Handel, Sketch of 257 ADDEESSES.
Address to a Mutual Improvement Society, No. 1 240 Do. do. do. do. No 2 248 Do. to Early Closing Association 273 Do. to Trade Protection Society, Nottingham 288 Do. to Mayor, Sanitary Condition of Liverpool
Preface
TO THE SECOND EDITION. In bringing out a second edition of " Essays, Tales, Eta," I have thought the opportunity favor able to add some other matter — Essays on Labour; Health versus Temperature; a few Tales; four Letters to the Mayor; Addresses on Early Closing, and Trade Protection ; which I trust may find as much favor as those previously printed. The letters addressed to the Mayor, on the Sanitary Condition of Liverpool, whilst of local interest, still deals with the question of health of houses generally. It will be seen that the injury that is sustained by those who dwell in damp houses is enormous. I have thought it well to print these letters, as, possibly, likely to help the cause of sanitary progress, by provoking discussion. A PajDer on National Banking, also, considers the question of panics, in relation to the operation of the present Bank Act.
At this time the subject is of no little interest to those engaged in commerce. All so occupied, may reasonably be asked to well consider a question on which public opinion will, some day or other, have to pronounce its judgment.
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