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about not leaving fortunes to our children. We shall leave them a 

 far handsomer legacy in their sober and industrious surroundings." 



Mr. Hoyle was a prolific writer in the newspapers on Temperance 

 and Economical subjects, and, in addition, published the following 

 works, which were widely circulated, and exerted no little influence 

 in the country : 



"Food, its Nature and Adaptability," 1864. 



" An Inquiry into the long-continued Depression in the Cotton 



Trade," 1869. 

 " Our National Resources and how they are Wasted," 187 1. 

 " The National Drink Bill." This volume consists of annual 



letters contributed by Mr. Hoyle to the Times and other 



newpapers. 

 "Crime in England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century," 1876. 



In 1884 his health began to fail, owing, doubtless, to the strain 

 put upon it by the exacting labours to which he subjected himself ; 

 but to the last he applied himself to literary work in advocacy of 

 the principles for which he had fought so strenuously and so long. 

 His death took place at Southport in April, 18S6. "As a speaker, 

 Mr. Hoyle was remarkable, not for the art of the orator, but for 

 the force and lucidity with which he marshalled facts and statistics 

 in support of his arguments. His language, whilst devoid of 

 common-place rhetoric, abounded in the higher qualities of 

 directness and earnestness. There have been few men more 

 generous and more disinterested, and his death is lamented by all 

 who value these qualities in our public life." (c) 



(c) Ibid. 



