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The Work of Book Hawkers

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 45.

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The Work of Book Hawkers

STAFF in hand, basket on back, through heat and cold, by lonely ways, through mountain ravines and dreary morasses, they [the “book-hawkers” or “colporteurs”] went from door to door, often ill-received, always at the hazard of their lives, and not knowing in the morning where to lay their head at night.—De Felice’s “Protestants of France.”