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                            The History and
                              Romance of
                                 Crime

                        FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
                          TO THE PRESENT DAY


                          THE GROLIER SOCIETY

                                LONDON


[Illustration: _Elizabeth Fry Reading to the Women Prisoners in
Newgate_

     The sympathies of the Quaker lady, Elizabeth Fry, were
     aroused by the