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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 remaikable 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. 



"O Heaven ! it is the most accursed sin of man: and done every- 

 where at present, on the streets and high places at noonday ! Verily, 

 seriously I say and pray as my chief orison, May the Lord deliver us 

 from it. "'Letter from Carlyle to Emerson. 



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