B. Disraeli

TO HENRY H 0 P E. It is not because this volume was conceived and partly executed amid the glades and galleries of the Deep de ne, that I have inscribed it with your name. Nor merely because I was desirous to avail myself of the most graceful privilege of an author, and dedicate my work to the...

ADVERTISEMENT. The general reader whose attention has not been specially drawn to the subject which this \olume aims to ( illustrate, the Condition of the People, might suspect that the Writer had been tempted to some exaggeration in the scenes which he has drawn and the impressions which he...