Darkest England.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 895, 25 March 1891, Page 3

Darkest England.

' • ;:• ,v\' ■>';[& *"iw ':■ »v '-':. -2 We think oar readers, will agree with as that the following statement, culled from the '* Leicester Eost, ought tpstop tho captious bickerings wiiich haVe been so abundant m certain quarters Bin^e " In Darkest England" malde its appearance. The Rev. C. "Fi; Aked haß ; received the following letter ifroriiMri W. T on the subject of General booth's book : — I cannot write ro yotf as i'yon msk m^ to write to yo^vbntMC can tel l|^o t « -.Chje exact facts, which-you^an make;dßai^iif you deem it advisable. The book ' In Darkest England ' is .General Booth's book ; the idjp.cftpf theabq^)k Siraif 'e'nilirely his ow-n. f -46fe*condewed'>.ther-titlc, and he set to work at .waiting it. all by himself. mass of material when the illness Of his •wife, «nd th y e impossibility of getting the ,m»ttef o6sgiifßpfti within reqaisite bounds jed uiiu ty .issjae % :bry of distress td ine.j £c asked ipe if J^ijld g^t him a Hterarj htt<*" iM'*OQW ;S& bii (ipfttujriftv intr; p\i^f pwJ t^ &* topis wt m Urns* 1

jsaid, 1 I will do your hack-work myseli and I did — ( I WAS VERY PROUD TO DO IT 1 ) " That is all. I was very sorry tht •he acknowledged my services as he di [m the preface* The form of words whic would have covered the -situation exaotl; that I suggested, be refused. I propose that be should merely, after thankin those who were m the Army who hat assisted him m collecting faots and case have added an acknowledgment t another not m the army, who had actei as scribe temporarily under my (geneial orders doing some journeyman work ii preparing the book for the press. '. have no wish to be mentioned jn con. nectioh 1 with Ur share any mßfe'thari.t^ i printer or the*bookbinder has- It Wfll (amply sufficient reward to have a ham ;in getting so noble a deliverance int( j type. I feel this all the more stronglj [because I had been urging upon Genera I Booth for years to goon this track. j aoi w *°*