Excerpt from The Life and Work of Sir John FieldingI have been asked, as Chief Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, to write a short Foreword to Mr. Leslie-melville' 3 book about Sir John Fielding.Mr. Leslie-melville has evidently made a most exten sive study of his subject, and in the following pages gives a very vivid and interesting description of the life and times of my distinguished predecessor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.