FOOTNOTES:

[1] F. M. Hueffer in “The Spirit of the People,” a clever and suggestive analysis of Middle Class England.

[2] The Island Pharisees. J. Galsworthy.

[3] At the Works. Lady Bell.

[4] A Poor Man’s House. Stephen Reynolds.

[5] The Town Child. R. A. Bray.

[6] Towards Social Reform. Canon and Mrs. Barrett.

[7] New Worlds for Old. H. G. Wells.

[8] Socialism. R. C. Ensor.

[9] Report of H.M. Factory Inspectors, 1907.

[10] Report of the Committee on Truck, 1909.

[11] Kipps. By H. G. Wells.

[12] Report of Parliamentary Committee on Home Work, 1908. To-day in Parliament a “Trades’ Boards Bill” seems at last to offer a way towards remedy.

[13] C. L. Marson in The “Commonwealth.

[14] The Ruin of Rural England.

[15] D. C. Pedder. Where Men Decay.

[16] Before the Great Pillage. Dr. Jessop.

[17] England a Nation.

[18] Tolstoy, Fortnightly Review, February 1909.

[19] Modernism and Romance. By R. A. Scott James. The whole book forms a very interesting study of the possibilities of the survival of “Romance” in the modern world.

[20] Modernism and Romance.

[21] In a volume of essays, In Peril of Change.

[22] Tono-Bungay. By H. G. Wells.

[23] John Bull’s Other Island. G. Bernard Shaw.

[24] A Century of Meditations. Thomas Treherne.

[25] See The Story of My Heart. By Richard Jefferies.

[26] England a Nation.

[27] Life and Labour of the People. Religious Influences.

[28] Christianity and the Working Classes, edited by George Haw.

[29] The War in the Air. By H. G. Wells.

[30] In these summaries and quotations I have used the excellent translation of Mr. A. W. Evans’s Penguin Island (John Lane).

[31] Gentlemen Errant. Mrs. Cust.