Humanitarian League Publications

Journals

The Humanitarian League published two journals, Humanity (1895-1902), later renamed The Humanitarian (1902-1919), and the quarterly The Humane Review (1900-1910).

PAMPHLET SERIES

No. 1 – Humanitarianism : Its General Principles and Progress. By HENRY S. SALT.
The new Humanitarian League begins effectively what promises to be a series of publications. This thoughtful and persuasive paper must win the sympathy of all humane readers. — National Reformer.
No. 2 – Royal Sport : Some Facts Concerning the Queen’s Buckhounds. By REV. J. STRATTON.
Do decent people generally know what devilish things are done daily in the Queen’s name and that of “Royal Sport?” — Weekly Times and Echo.
No. 3 – Rabbit Coursing : An Appeal to Working Men. By R. H. JUDE, D.Sc., M.A.
The Humanitarian League has issued a well reasoned and, in the main, temperate protest against one of the least defensible forms of popular recreation. — The Globe.
No. 4 – The Horrors of Sport. By LADY FLORENCE DIXIE.
As eloquent a condemnation of the brutalising pastimes called “Sports” in England as I have ever read. — Echo.
No. 5 – Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses. By H. F. LESTER.
It is necessary that the attention of the public should be aroused to the evils attendant upon our present London system of private slaughter-houses, and to the duty humanity imposes on us to do all that may be done to abolish these evils. — Daily News.
No. 6 – Vivisection, I. Medical Science: The True Method and the False. By EDWARD CARPENTER and EDWARD MAITLAND.
An admirable addition to the very useful series of publications which emanate from the Humanitarian League. — Zoophilist.
No. 7 – “I Was in Prison” : A Plea for the Amelioration of the Criminal Law. By ROBERT JOHNSON.
The contents of this little publication deserve to be deeply pondered by all who love their fellow-men, and especially by all who are concerned with the administration of the criminal law. — Daily Chronicle.
No. 8 – Women’s Wages, and the Conditions under which they are earned. By ISABELLA O. FORD.
It succeeds in placing before the readers the horrible conditions under which the mass of our working sisters contribute their proportion of the superabundant wealth of this country. — Justice.
No. 9 – Dangerous Trades for Women. By LOUISA T. MALLET.
A very readable and interesting pamphlet, which will help to influence public opinion in favour of improving the sanitary condition of our industries. — British Medical Journal.
No. 10 – The Extermination of Birds. By EDITH CARRINGTON.
A strong appeal on behalf of the song birds of Britain. — Dundee Advertiser.
No. 11 – The Horse: His Life, his Usage, and his End. By Colonel W. L. B. COULSON.
Let every humane master who puts the care of horses into other people’s hands put into those hands one of these twopenny brownpaper-covered messages of mercy. — Echo.
No. 12 – A Plea for Mercy to Offenders. By C. H. HOPWOOD, Q.C.
The Head Constable of Liverpool, in his report for 1892, testifies unmistakably to the success of Mr. Hopwood’s merciful system. — Weekly Times and Echo.
No. 13 – The Humanizing of the Poor Law. By J. F. OAKESHOTT.
All the more valuable in that it indicates clearly a definite program of Poor Law reform. — The Sun.
No. 14 – Literæ Humaniores : An Appeal to Teachers. By HENRY S. SALT
On the need of humane education and recognition that animals have rights.
No. 15 – Cattle Ships and our Meat Supply. By ISABEL M. GREG and S. H. TOWERS.
No. 16 – Public Control of Hospitals. By HARRY ROBERTS.
No. 17 – The Evils of Butchery. By JOSIAH OLDFIELD.
No. 18 – The Dog: his Rights and Wrongs. By EDITH CARRINGTON.
No. 19 – The Shadow of the Sword. By G. W. FOOTE.
No. 20 – So-called Sport. By Rev. J. STRATTON, Colonel W. L. B. COULSON, and Dr. R. H. JUDE.
No. 21 – What it Costs to be Vaccinated: The Pains and Penalties of an Unjust Law. By JOSEPH COLLINSON.
No. 22 – The Sweating System. By MAURICE ADAMS.
No. 23 – The Humanities of Diet. By HENRY S. SALT.
No. 24 – The Gallows and the Lash. By HYPATIA BRADLAUGH BONNER.

PAMPHLETS & LEAFLETS

• British Blood Sports.
  A series of articles, by several writers, on the various forms of sports.
• Christmas Cruelties. By ERNEST BELL.
• Corporal Punishment in India: Whipping and Morality in Gaols. By Sir HENRY COTTON.
• Deer Hunting in the New Forest. By GEORGE GREENWOOD, M.P.
• Empire in India and Elsewhere. By EDWARD CARPENTER.
  A protest against the mischievous Imperialism of the day.
• Facts About Flogging. By JOSEPH COLLINSON.
  An exposure, historical and critical, of the futility of the lash.
• Fallacies of Flagellants.
  An exposure of some common sophism.
• Food and Fashion: Some Thoughts on What We Eat and What We Wear. By HENRY S. SALT.
• The Fur and Feather Fashions.
  Deals with various cruelties of the fur and feather trades.
• Horses in Warfare. By ERNEST BELL and H. BAILIE-WEAVER.
• How to Kill Humanely. By EDITH CARRINGTON and C. CASH.
  Treats of the best methods of giving, when necessary, a mericiful death.
• How to Reform Our Prison System. By H. J. B. MONTGOMERY.
  A vivid picture of the English system of treating prisoners.
• Humanitarian League, What It Is and What It Is Not.
• Imprisonment for Debt. By LEX (W. S. MONCK).
  Shows that imprisonment for debt, far from being abolished in England, is a very prevalent evil.
• International Arbitration: Its Necessity and Practicability. By H. PRATT.
• Kinematograph Shows. (Leaflet)
• Lord Randolph Churchill on Spurious Sports. (Leaflet)
• Museums in Relation to Animal Destruction. By EDMUND SELOUS. (Leaflet)
• Notes on the Punishment of Death. By CARL HEATE.
  Deals with some special features; dates, statistics, etc.
• Pasteurism in India. By Sir JAMES H. THORNTON, K.C.B.
  A scientific refutation of the claims of Indian Pasteurians by a medical authority.
• Pioneers of Humanity. By HOWARD WILLIAMS.
  A study of some great humanitarian teachers, from Buddha to the present time.
• Slaughter-House Reform. By Rev. JOHN VERSCHOYLE.
• Sports, Legitimate and Illegitimate. By Rev. J. STRATTON.
• The Case Against Corporal Punishment. By HENRY S. SALT.
  Urges the immorality, apart from the uselessness, of flogging.
• The Cost of Sport and Some Facts about the Game Laws. By MAURICE ADAMS and J. CONNELL.
  Showing the folly of the economic argument that sport benefits trade.
• The Death Penalty. By HYPATIA BRADLAUGH BONNER.
  Sets forth the general case against capital punishment.
• The Duty of Man to the Lower Animals. By FREDERIC HARRISON.
• The Ethics of Corporal Punishment. By HENRY S. SALT.
  Urges the immorality, apart from the uselessness of flogging.
• The Eton College Hare-Hunt. By ETONENSIS (HENRY S. SALT).
  A review of the agitation of the past ten years against the Eton Beagles.
• The Fate of the Fur Seal. By JOSEPH COLLINSON.
• The Flogging of Vagrants. By JOSEPH COLLINSON.
  A plea for the repeal of the obsolete Vagrant Act of 1824.
• The Humane Slaughtering of Animals. By ERNEST BELL.
• The Irish and Irish Cattle Trade. By I. M. GREG.
  Throws light on the terrible conditions under which much of the sea-transport of animals is carried on.
• The Law of the Steel Trap. By GEORGE GREENWOOD, M.P.
  The writer shows that an enforcement of the law concerning the use of steel traps would put an end to much cruelty in practice.
• The Logic of the Larder. By HENRY S. SALT.
  “More Hogs more happiness.” A fallacy exposed.
• The Meat Fetish: Two Essays on Vegetarianism. By ERNEST CROSBY and ÉLISÉE RECLUS.
  Two very notable essays in praise of vegetarianism.
• The Need of a Rational and Humane Science. By EDWARD CARPENTER.
  A plea for studying Nature from the human standpoint rather than through external formulas.
• The Other Side of the Bars: the case of the caged bird. By ERNEST BELL. With a preface by W. H. HUDSON.
  Deals with the subject of the bird-catcher and bird-shop.
• The Price of Seal-skin. (Leaflet)
  Gives an account of the horrible methods by which seal-skin is procured.
• The Reform of the Slaughter-House. By CHARLES W. FORWARD.
  Draws attention to the urgent need of replacing private by public slaughter-houses.
• The Secret of the Reptile House.
  On the disgusting and needless practice of feeding caged reptiles on live animals.
• The Spirit of Punishment. By JOHN GALSWORTHY.
  A plea for the complete reformation in our methods of treating crime.
• The Sportsman at Bay. By HENRY S. SALT.
  An exposure of the fallacies commonly used in defence of blood-sports.
• The Treatment of Prisoners. By REV. W. DOUGLAS MORRISON, LL.D.
  An address given before the Humanitarian League.
• The Truth About The Game Laws. By J. CONNELL, with preface by ROBERT BUCHANAN.
• The Wider Socialism. By M. LITTLE.
• Vivisection: Two Addresses given before the Humanitarian League. By EDWARD CARPENTER.
  A criticism of the prevalent scientific methods as opposed to the true line of progress.
• Vivisection, II. An Appeal to Hearts and Heads. By EDWARD MAITLAND.