Autobiography of Richard Tangye: Publishers Note

PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

A SERIES of Short Biographies of Self-Made Men has appeared in the British Workman, during the last few months, and attracted much attention.

Early in the present year we applied to Mr. RICHARD TANGYE for particulars of his early life and later career as a "Captain of Industry" in the origin and progress of the Cornwall Works. We added to the notes sent by him some further details supplied by Mr. H. Gilzean Reid, President of the Institute of Journalists.

The sketches thus secured were duly published, and proved so interesting that we suggested to Mr. TANGYE that further details of such a narrative of struggle and triumph would make an excellent and popular volume. After some hesitation and correspondence, Mr. TANGYE was induced to write his "Autobiography," which records not only a remarkable personal career, but the "growth of a great industry," of world-wide fame.

While the story has special interest for Cornishmen, whose county motto, ONE AND ALL, has been chosen for the title of this volume, it will be found to be a most readable and instructive record of many of the social and industrial changes of more than fifty years.

S. W. PARTRIDGE and Co.

LONDON.

October, 1889.

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