Chapter I: Preface

Portions of some of the chapters in this book have already appeared in _The Times_, the _Quarterly Review_, the _Edinburgh Review_, the _Nineteenth Century_, the _Sunday Times_ and the _Evening Standard_, and are now incorporated in their proper place in the larger scheme on which they were originally written. I am indebted to the proprietors of those publications for their kindness in permitting me so to reproduce them.

An old friend and valued colleague of mine in the Department of Shipyard Labour—Mr. C. F. Farrar—did me the great service of assisting to get the book through the press.

To my Secretary, Miss K. I. Toogood, I owe the preparation of the Index.

L. M.

_August 12th, 1922._

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