A Story of the Luddite Riots. By G. A. HENTY. With 12 full-page
Illustrations by H. M. PAGET, in blank and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth
elegant, olivine edges, 6_s_.
The author in this story has followed the lines which he worked out
so successfully in "_Facing Death_." As in that story he shows
that there are victories to be won in peaceful fields, and that
steadfastness and tenacity are virtues which tell in the long run.
The story is laid in Yorkshire at the commencement of the present
century, when the high price of food caused by the war and the
introduction of machinery drove the working-classes to desperation
and caused them to band themselves in that wide-spread organization
known as the Luddite Society. There is an abundance of adventure in
the tale, but its chief interest lies in the character of the hero,
and the manner in which by a combination of circumstances he is put
on trial for his life, but at last comes victorious "through the
fray."