MARRIAGE À LA MODE, _William Hogarth_ 489 MAMMON, _George Frederick Watts_ 488 WAR, _Arnold Böcklin_ 584 LONDON, _Paul Gustave Doré_ 585 A CITIZEN LOST, _Ryan Walker_ 649 "OLIVER TWIST ASKS FOR MORE," _George Cruikshank_ 648 THE COAL FAMINE, _Thomas Theodor Heine_ 680 MY SOLICITOR SHALL HEAR OF THIS, _Will Dyson_ 681 THE MILITANT, _Charles A. Winter_ 744 THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON, _Henry Wallis_ 745 ONCE YE HAVE SEEN MY FACE YE DARE NOT MOCK 808 JUSTICE, _Walter Crane_ 809 Editor's Preface When the idea of this collection was first thought of, it was a matter of surprise that the task should have been so long unattempted. There exist small collections of Socialist songs for singing, but apparently this is the first effort that has been made to cover the whole field of the literature of social protest, both in prose and poetry, and from all languages and times. The reader's first inquiry will be as to the qualifications of the editor. Let me say that I gave nine years of my life to a study of literature under academic guidance, and then, emerging from a great endowed university, discovered the modern movement of proletarian revolt, and have given fifteen years to the study and interpretation of that. The present volume is thus a blending of two points of view. I have reread the favorites of my youth, choosing from them what now seemed most vital; and I have sought to test the writers of my own time by the touchstone of the old standards. The size of the task I did not realize until I had gone too far to retreat. It meant not merely the rereading of the classics and the standard anthologies; it meant going through a small library of volumes by living writers, the files of many magazines, and a dozen or more scrap-books and collections of fugitive verse. At the end of this labor I found myself with a pile of typewritten manuscript a foot high; and the task of elimination was the most difficult of all.