"Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It i…"

"One of my earliest recollections is of a great bazaar which was held in my native city of Manchester, the object of t…"

"Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it conti…"

"The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes. Although the shooti…"

"The education of the English boy, then as now, was considered a much more serious matter than the education of the En…"

"[O]ne night when I lay in my little bed waiting for sleep to overtake me. It was a custom of my father and mother to …"

"The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and oth…"

"It was a time of tremendous unrest, of labour agitations, of strikes and lockouts. It was a time also when a most stu…"

"The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scr…"

"The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in …"