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The Progress Of The Proletariat Wages And Income In The

United Kingdom Since 1860. By A. L. Bowley. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) THIS summary of the results of a lifetime's work on statistics of wages and income is for......

" Europe Stay Away From My

DOOR " IN 1783, so our authors tell us, there was a conversation between John Adams, one of the American peace negotiators and Oswald, the British - agent. " You are afraid,"......

Richard Porson

Richard Porson : A Biographical Essay. By M. L. Clarke. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) " I AM quite satisfied if, three hundred years hence, it shall be said that ' one......