A LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS FOR WAGE- EARNERS [To the Editor
of the SPECTATOR.] SI11,--The strength of the Socialist appeal lies mainly in the widespread and pathetic ignorance which prevails, particularly among workpeople, in regard to elementary economic matters. Unhappily, they get little opportunity for studying such things, and what instruction they do get is often coloured with a Socialist bias.
The Directors of the Individualist Bookshop, Ltd., have
decided to suggest to the Directors of factories, workshops, collieries and businesses of all kinds that-they should provide for their employees a standard library that we have prepared. We ask your help, Sir, in making the project known. Our standard library consists of twenty-seven carefully chosen volumes, by authors of the highest standing as economists, historians or business men, such as Professor C.annan, the late Professor Knowles, Professor Hearnshaw, Sir Ernest Henn, Mr. Harold Cox and Mr. Hartley Withers.
The price of the library is. £6, and this includes a free sub- scription for one year to the Individualist Reading Circle, a scheme that will enable purchasers who wish to do so to select further books to add to their nucleus library. - We already have a large number of individual subscribers to the Reading Circle, the annual subscription to which is £1.
We are working for peace and good will in industry, and it is because we believe that the economic fallacies of Socialism form a serious barrier to this aim that we seek to combat them by stimulating the working man to think for himself.—I am, Sir, &c.,
W. H. HUTT
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