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ALTON LOCKE,
TAILOR AND POET
An Autobiography.
BY THE REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY,
CANON OF WESTMINSTER, RECTOR OF EVERSLEY, AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE OF WALES,
NEW EDITION,

WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR BY THOMAS HUGHES, ESQ., Q.C.,
AUTHOR OF "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS."

CONTENTS.
PREFATORY MEMOIR
CHEAP CLOTHES AND NASTY
PREFACE--TO THE UNDERGRADUATES OF CAMBRIDGE
PREFACE--TO THE WORKING MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER I.
A POET'S CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II.
THE TAILORS' WORKROOM
CHAPTER III.
SANDY MACKAYE
CHAPTER IV.
TAILORS AND SOLDIERS
CHAPTER V.
THE SCEPTIC'S MOTHER
CHAPTER VI.
THE DULWICH GALLERY
CHAPTER VII.
FIRST LOVE
CHAPTER VIII.
LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE
CHAPTER IX.
POETRY AND POETS
CHAPTER X.
HOW FOLKS TURN CHARTISTS
CHAPTER XI.
"THE YARD WHERE THE GENTLEMEN LIVE"
CHAPTER XII.
CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LOST IDOL FOUND
CHAPTER XIV.
A CATHEDRAL TOWN
CHAPTER XV.
THE MAN OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER XVI.
CULTIVATED WOMEN
CHAPTER XVII.
SERMONS IN STONES
CHAPTER XVIII.
MY FALL
CHAPTER XIX.
SHORT AND SAD
CHAPTER XX.
PEGASUS IN HARNESS
CHAPTER XXI.
THE SWEATER'S DEN
CHAPTER XXII.
AN EMERSONIAN SERMON
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE TOWNSMAN'S SERMON TO THE GOWNSMAN
CHAPTER XXV.
A TRUE NOBLEMAN
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE TRIUMPHANT AUTHOR
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE PLUSH BREECHES TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE MEN WHO ARE EATEN
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XXX.
PRISON THOUGHTS
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE NEW CHURCH
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE TOWER OF BABEL
CHAPTER XXXIII.
A PATRIOT'S REWARD
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE TENTH OF APRIL
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE LOWEST DEEP
CHAPTER XXXVI.
DREAMLAND
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE TRUE DEMAGOGUE
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
MIRACLES ASD SCIENCE
CHAPTER XXXIX.
NEMESIS
CHAPTER XL.
PRIESTS AND PEOPLE
CHAPTER XLI.
FREEDOM, EQUALITY, AND BROTHERHOOD

PREFATORY MEMOIR.
The tract appended to this preface has been chosen to accompany this reprint of Alton Locke in order to illustrate, from another side, a distinct period in the life of Charles Kingsley, which stands out very much by itself. It may be taken roughly to have extended from 1848 to 1856. It has been thought that they require a preface, and I have undertaken to write it, as one of the few survivors of those who were most intimately associated with the author at the time to which the works refer.
No easy task; for, look at them from what point we will, these years must be allowed to cover an anxious and critical time in modern English history; but, above all, in the history of the working classes. In the first of them the Chartist agitation came to a head and burst, and was followed by the great movement towards association, which, developing in two directions and by two distinct methods--represented respectively by the amalgamated Trades Unions, and Co-operative Societies--has in the intervening years entirely changed the conditions of the labour question in England, and the relations of the working to the upper and middle classes. It is with this, the social and industrial side of the history of those years, that we are mainly concerned here. Charles Kingsley has left other and more important writings of those years. But these are beside our purpose, which is to give some such slight sketch of him as may be possible within the limits of a preface, in the character in which he was first widely known, as the most outspoken and powerful of those who took the side of the labouring classes, at a critical time--the crisis in a word, when they abandoned their old political weapons, for the more potent one of union and association, which has since carried them so far.
To no one of all those to whom his memory is very dear can this seem a superfluous task, for no writer was ever more misunderstood or better abused at the time, and after the lapse of almost a quarter of a century the misunderstanding would seem still to hold its ground. For through all the many notices of him which appeared after his death in last January, there ran the same apologetic tone as to this part of his life's work. While generally, and as a rule cordially, recognizing his merits as an author and