446 WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



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THE HUGUENOTS: 



THEIR SETTLEMENTS, CHURCHES, AND INDUSTRIES IN 

 ENGLAND AND IRELAND. 



A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED 



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

 side of Huguenot history, and has 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 interesting 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 ly 

 consummate art. Mr. Smiles has pursued his investigations with a laborious minute- 

 ness 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 sau- 

 rait trop encourager, un ecrivain Anglais vient aujourd'hui rendre aux etrangers ee 

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

 est Thistorien de la vapeur et de toutes les decouvertes utiles ; ses heros sont les in- 

 venteurs, les artisans celebres, les ingenieurs, tous ceux, en un mot, qui ont derobe a 

 la nature un secret ou un force pour etendre le regne de 1'homme sur la matiere. Les 

 conquetes de 1'industrie et du commerce le preoccupent bien autrement que les victoires 

 des armees Anglaises. . . . Par la tournure de ses idees et 1'ordre de ses etudes, 

 M. Smiles etait done prepare 4 traiter cet interessant sujet, lanaissance 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 Fle- 

 mish Protestant refugees in this country, and their descendants. 



" Of the powerful influence exercised by this immigration on our induatry, com- 

 merce, 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 tho- 

 roughly 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, admir- 

 ably 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 noMe 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 in- 

 struct. 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 carr and breadth they deserve, by Mr. Smiles." 

 "London Review. 



