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Excerpt from James Ward, His Life and Works: With a Catalogue of His Engravings and Pictures A hundred other instances might be mentioned, but as lack of space forbids, I will content myself with giving, as a sample of Mrs. Frankau's methods, a single quotation from her book. It is taken from page 57, and forms part of a long tirade against James Ward for his treatment of his children, more especially of his son George. George was persuaded, urged, forced eventually, to abandon art, to give up everything that had filled his life, and provided him with the means of subsistence, and take to the manufacture of blacking! The only date Mrs. Frankau mentions in connection with this event is 1857. To the reader who has had his emotions excited by visions of a youthful stripling bullied into obedience by a stalwart middle aged father, it may come as a relief to know that in 1857, James Ward was a decrepit and tottering veteran of 88, while George, who had reached the mature age of 58, might be reasonably supposed to have outgrown parental control. It is improbable that at thattime he could have been forced into the blacking factory, as it had ceased to exist for nearly twenty years. As a matter of fact George was never connected with it. It was an enterprise in which his brother Claude James persuaded their father to risk his savings and where he lost them for him. 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.

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