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John Cassell. The Story of the House of Cassell
The Story of the House of Cassell
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Factory Hand and Temperance Reformer
CHAPTER I
From Tea Merchant to Publisher
CHAPTER II
La Belle Sauvage
CHAPTER III
The Growth of Educational Literature
CHAPTER IV
John Cassell and Lord Brougham and Others
CHAPTER V
The Taxes on Knowledge—American Experiences
CHAPTER VI
The Last Years
CHAPTER VII
Cassell, Petter and Galpin
CHAPTER I
Some Editors and Arnold-Forster
CHAPTER II
Departmental Managers
CHAPTER III
The New Order
CHAPTER IV
Forty Years of Illustration
CHAPTER V
Magazines and Periodicals
CHAPTER VI
The First Halfpenny Newspaper, and Some Others
CHAPTER VII
Serials and Books
CHAPTER VIII
The Novelists: "R.L.S," and Others
CHAPTER IX
The Machinery at La Belle Sauvage
CHAPTER X
The Social Side of La Belle Sauvage
CHAPTER XI
INDEX
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John Cassell
Published by Good Press, 2020
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He had no pre-arranged programme. As he passed from town to town he attracted attention by twirling a large rattle, and the crowds of curious men and women who assembled were soon entertained by his vigorous speech and infectious earnestness. It was characteristic of his curious, acquisitive mind that when in Wales he picked up enough Welsh to wind up his addresses with something in that language.
Not infrequently the publicans organized opposition to temperance speakers. Mr. Arthur Humphreys, in the Manchester Guardian (January 23, 1917), recalled a lively meeting held by Cassell at Shaftesbury.
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