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Registered Moneylenders 1901. (A.rgus Printing Company. 2s. Cel. neti)-41ese we

have the Act- of 1000, with the schedules and forms, and then what one might call an appalling list of moneylenders. In London and the suburbs there must be more than a thousand, and the total number for England sad Wales must be between four and five thousand (this number, however, is made up by counting the partners in the various concerns). There must be at least a hundred women moneylenders in London and the suburbs,-most of them doing business by themselves, and not pawnbrokers. Some of the occupations given are curious. " Pawnbrokers" we expect, and the grandiose " financier " is not surprising; but who would think that" labourers," "envelope- folders," and " knife-grinders" (who ought to be 'needy ") have money to lend ?