Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet

Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet

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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