Pages from a Life of Strife. By T. Palmer Newbould.
(Frank Palmer. is. net.) The hero of this story was a Chartist lecturer, one W. H. Chadwick, who died at an advanced age in 1908. He was imprisoned with other Chartists in 1848—a hot-headed man and not over wise, but single-minded and sincere, who did more for others than for himself. He was supported in his old age by a pension bought for him by men who respected his character, and this little book is written for the benefit of his surviving daughters. We are all Chartists now, even to having annual parliaments, and it is interesting to hear about this primitive champion of the faith. The story might have been better told; the author diselainta "literary charm and grace," but he is not above such ornaments as "a fusillade of embryo poultry."
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