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A History Of The English Agricultural Labourer.*

IN his preface to this book Mr. Sidney Webb has done the obvious thing in expressing regret that it should have been left to a Professor of Political Economy in the University......

The Friendly Craft.*

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH HANSCOM has made a quite admirable book by putting together extracts from biographies and corre- spondences without end. The labour which this little volume,......

Everyman's Library.*

ANOTHER addition of fifty volumes has been made to this series, and the selection shows excellent judgment, tempered, we might say, with a certain enterprise. "Fiction," with......

The Carnegie Foundation.t The Substance Of This Report...

easily stated. The Carnegie Foundation has an income of about 2110,000, which is devoted entirely to providing retiring pensions for Emeriti Professors whose term of activity......