1899. Besant, English writer and humanitarian, practiced many branches of literary art with success, but he is most widely known for his long succession of novels, many of which enjoyed remarkable popularity. Besant writes in the Preface that the question with which the story deals is why the innocent must suffer, and do suffer every day and in every generation, for the follies and the sins of their forefathers. Contents: A Remote Ancestor; What he Wanted; Something to Come; The Complete Supply; A Learned Profession; The Return of the Prodigal; The Child of Sorrows; In the Land of Beeches; Mary Anne; A Dinner at the Club; The Book of Extracts; On the Site; A Compromise; Consultation; Barlow Brothers; And Another Came; Yet Another! The Light that Broke; The Signs of Change; He Speaks at Last; and The Will. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.