{"product_id":"2940014722988","title":"Songs of the Army of the Night","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE.\u003cbr\u003eA few words of preface seem necessary in sending out this little book.  It is to be looked on as the product of the life of a social worker in England, in his travels, and in Australia.  The key-note of the First Part — “England” — is desperation, or, if any hope, then “desperate hope.”  A friend once reported to me a saying of Matthew Arnold’s, that he did not believe in any man of intelligence taking a desperate view of the social problem in England.  I am afraid that saying relegates me to the ranks of the fools, but I am content to remain there.  I believe that never since 1381, which is the date of the Peasants’ Revolt, has England presented such a spectacle of the happiness of the tens, of the misery of the millions.  It is not by any means the artisan, or the general or the agricultural labourer, who is the only sufferer.  All society groans under the slavery of stupendous toil and a pittance wage.  The negro slavery of the Southern States of America was better than the white slavery of to-day all over the earth, but more particularly in Europe and in America...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\"Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 – 4 September 1893) was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.\" -- Wikipedia","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165171237104,"sku":"2940014722988","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014722988_p0.jpg?v=1763614602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014722988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}