Excerpt from England, China, and Opium: Three Essays, Reprinted, With Slight Alterations, From the Contemporary Review The following pages are a reprint, with slight alterations, of three papers which appeared in the Contemporary Review of February, 1876, June, 1877, and January, 1878. The papers were the result of an independent endeavour on my part to ascertain the real right or wrong of our relations with China and the Opium Trade. They were written in entire independence of the anti-opium Society: but they are now reprinted at the instance of the Committee of that body (the anglo-oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. 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.

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