ENGLISH MEN AND MANNERS IN THE EIGHT. EENTH CENTURY. By
A. S. Turberville. (Clarendon Press. 10s. net.)—Here is a fascinating pictorial history by a competent scholar, whose text and choice of illustrations are alike excellent. Mr. Turberville begins with a brief outline of the period to 1783, sketches Georgian society, and then deals in separate chapters with the politicians, the divines, philanthropists like Oglethorpe and Howard, Grub Street, the artists and the players, and, lastly, Clive and Hastings, the soldiers and the admirals. Each chapter is lavishly and aptly illustrated with prints and caricatures, letters, newspaper- cuttings and so on. Thus with the account of the rise of industry we have coach advertisements, pictures of Newcomen's steam engine, the Bridgewater canal, early ironworks and children in a rope factory, with a terrible paragraph from the Liverpool Mercury of 1816 giving exact particulars of the starvation wages earned by handloom weavers, ranging from Os. 44d. a week downwards. The book would interest any intelligent person ; it should certainly be in every school library.
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