System of Land Tenure in Various Countries. Published under the
direction of the Cobden Club. Edited by J. W. Probyn. (Cassell and Co.) This is a new and cheaper edition of the volume under the same title which was favourably noticed by us upon its first appearance. We should be surprised to learn that sufficient interest exists upon the subject, or or rather, that there is a sufficiently wide desire to be instructed upon it, to cause a demand for this cheap edition. If the classes who are most in- terested in what is known as the "land question" will really study this volume, they will find many prejudices removed and many popular mis- conceptions corrected. This edition also includes an essay by Mr. George Brodriok on "Primogeniture," which is written with considerable vigour, clearness, and impartiality, and is, perhaps, the most generally readable paper in the volume. We should be glad to hear that this book was acceptable as well as accessible to the workmen's clubs and institutes throughout the country.
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