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Excerpt from Eton Nature-Study and Observational Lessons, Vol. 1IT is with great pleasure that I venture to commend this little work both to Teachers and Learners. I believe that it is sound in its method, and that it will not only help to train the minds of those who use it intelligently, but also lead the way to that further study of nature upon right principles which, as time goes on, affords for so many, a solace and delight amid the sick ...

Excerpt from Charge, Delivered on the Sixth of January, 1862, at the Quarter Sessions, Held for the Borough of Birmingham: With an AppendixThe treatment of offenders is, even at the present day, in a condition far from satisfactory to those whose duties bring them acquainted with the actual working of our system in its various branches of the prevention of crime, and the detection, apprehension, trial, and subsequent disposal of criminals howe...

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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Birmingham Midland Institute: On the 30th September, 1867 Ladies And Gentlemen, In a speech, of our lamented Prince Consort on laying the first stone of the edifice in which we are assembled this passage occurs, - "It has been a great pleasure to me to have been able to participate, in however trifling a degree, in a work which I do not look upon as a simple act of worldly wisdom on the part of this gre...

Excerpt from Suggestions for the Repression of Crime: Contained in Charges Delivered to Grand Juries of Birmingham, Supported by Additional Facts and Arguments, Together With Articles From Reviews and Newspapers Controverting or Advocating the Conclusions of the Author Judging, perhaps, too hastily, from the public attention directed towards many of these Charges on their delivery, my friends have decided that they ought to be published, in a...

Excerpt from Our Exemplars, Poor and Rich, or Biographical Sketches of Men and Women Who Have, by an Extraordinary Use of Their Opportunities, Benefited Their Fellow-Creatures But the exceptions which can fairly be made to self-help on this and one or two other grounds, are as nothing compared to the value of the work, moreover, the thirty years which have elapsed Since the first appearance of the Pursuit Of Knowledge under Difficulties, have...

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