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Excerpt from The English Review: February, 1916 Manchester Labour Press - a little association for the spread of Socialist literature, on the committee of which I was. The Pamphlets were Sex - love, Woman, and Marriage; and they sold pretty well - three or four thousand copies each. Encouraged by their success I began early in 1895 to put them together, and add fresh matter to them, till I had a book ready for publication - which I afterwards entitled Love's Coming-of - Age. This book I offered to Fisher Unwin (as he was already selling Towards Demo cracy) and he accepted it - undertaking to produce the book himself and give me a fair Royalty. But meanwhile the agitation with regard to the Wilde affairs increased. Wilde himself was arrested in April, 1895, and from that moment a sheer panic prevailed. Fisher Unwin refused to continue the production of the proposed book. He thought it too dangerous (though, as a matter of fact, it contained no reference to Wilde and his views); and not content with that he finally went so far as to turn Towards Democracy out of his shop! I felt sorry for his perturbation and quite understood some of its causes; but the matter was naturally very inconvenient for me. Thus my mo books, Towards Democracy and Love's coming-of-age, like two poor little orphans, were now both out on the wide world again; and I had to consider what to do with them. 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 in