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Excerpt from Our Fifty Years: The Story of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union; Together With Brief Impressions of the Men of the Movement Club News. In the section devoted to The Men of the Movement, the sketch of the present Secretary of the Union is by another hand than mine, and where it diverges from fact into opinion, such Opinion must be accepted with reserve. It is the unfortunate lot of the poor craftsman to be doomed to constant apology for his work manship. I must apologise for this book and plead that it was suddenly commissioned, hastily undertaken, and hurriedly accomplished in the Odd moments of too few and too busy days. It is unworthy of the great movement whose rise and progress it purports to chronicle-a move ment whose full story may, I trust, soon command the service of a more able and more leisured pen than mine. One other regret - that time did not permit me to collect some views Of the exteriors and interiors Of club houses. Those which appear are from such photographs as happened to be in my possession at the time of going to press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.