WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



THE HUGUENOTS 



THEIR SETTLEMENTS, CHURCHES, AND INDUSTRIES 

 IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND 



Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 



" The cunning of Mr. Smiles's hand never fails him. He has chosen the prosaic 

 side of Huguenot history, and lias made it as fascinating as a romance. He has 

 not essayed to depict the religious heroism or the social tragedy of the Huguenot 

 story he has restricted himself to the economical influence of its migrations, and 

 he has made the statistics and genealogies of which his work is full as interest- 

 ing as Homer's lists of ships and heroes, or as Milton's array of the demigods of 

 hell. The process seems very simple and easy, but it can be saved from utter 

 dreariness only by consummate art. Mr. Smiles has pursued his investigations 

 with, a laborious minuteness worthy of the Statistical Society and of the Heralds' 

 College ; and yet it is as impossible to skip a page, as in reading his Life of 

 Stephenson." British Quarterly. 



" Avec un rare dessinteressement national et un sentiment de justice qu'on ne 

 saurait trop encourager, tin ecrivain Anglais vient aujourd'hui rendre aux etrangers 

 ce que la riche et laborieuse Angleterre du xixme siecle doit aux etrangers. M. 

 Smiles est 1'historien de la vapeur et de toutes les decouvertes utiles ; ses heros 

 sont les inventeurs, les artisans celebres, les ingenieurs, tous ceux, en tin mot, qui 

 ont derobe a la nature un secret on un force pour etrendre le regne de I'homme stir 

 la matiere. Les conquetes de I'industrie et du commerce le preoccupent bien 

 autrement que les victoires des armees Anglaises . . . Par la tournure de ses idees 

 t 1'ordre de ses etudes, M. Smiles etait done prepare itraitercetinteressantsujet, 

 la naissance des arts utiles chez un grand peuple qui, a 1'origine, n'avait pas 

 d'industrie." Revue des Deux Mondes. 



"The work of Mr. Smiles embraces a subject which has never been adequately 

 treated, at least in English literature the history, namely, of the French and 

 Flemish Protestant refugees in this country, and their descendants. 



"Of the powerful influence exercised by this immigration on our industry, 

 commerce, arts, literature, even our usages and modes of thought, few are aware. 

 The subject is by no means a familiar one among ourselves. The whole revolution, 

 so to speak, took place so gradually, the new population amalgamated so readily 

 and thoroughly with the old, that people hardly attached to the phenomena 

 which passed under their eyes their real importance. Mr. Smiles's account of it is, 

 therefore, admirably calculated to impart, not only new knowledge, but really 

 new ideas, to most of us. 



"To readers who love to dwell on heroic vicissitudes rather than on mere 

 details of economical progress, Mr. Smiles's account of the persecution in France, 

 the sufferings of the many and the marvellous escapes of the few, will prove the 

 most attractive part of his work. 



" How this noble army of emigrants for conscience sake the truest aristocracy, 

 perhaps, which has ever developed itself gradually and peacefully amalgamated 

 with that mass of the English people which they had done so much to enrich and 

 to instruct, Mr. Smiles has fully shown. He recounts their euthanasia, if such it 

 may be termed, as he does their rise. To one of the great causes of their success, 

 and not in England only, he does ample justice. They were, as a body, extremely 

 well educated ; and they jealously transmitted that inheritance, which they had 

 brought from France, to their children. The poorest Huguenot refugee was 

 almost always a cultivated man. Hence their great advantage in the fair race of 

 industry." Pall Mall Gazette. 



" Mr. Smiles's book on ' The Huguenots ' is an improvement on anything he has 

 yet done, and it deserves a success which, by reason of its very merits, we fear it 

 has no chance of attaining. The subject breaks ground that may almost be called 

 fallow. Many chapters of English history, and these not the least interesting or 

 important, are for the first time written, with the care and breadth they deserve, 

 by Mr. Smiles." London Review. 



