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; Part II. Two vols. Containing early Customs of Lincoln, Awards, 
Novum Registrum, etc., with Documents of Salisbury, York, Lichfield, 
Hereford, and Truro. Pp. cexe. + 160, xxvi. + 161—957. 
Together three vols. 8vo. Cloth. 1892—7. Published £2 2s. 6d. 
The second part has an Introduction of nearly 300 pages by Canon 
Christopher Wordsworth, who saw the whole book through the press. 
Well reviewed, Academy and Church Review. 
_ Mrs. H. M. Batson and The Honble. Percy Wyndham 
‘ are the authors of a couple of papers on ‘‘ Town and Country Labourers ” in 
} The Nineteenth Century, Oct., 1899, pp. 570—582, 583—590. The former 
: ascribes the migration of the labourer to the towns to firstly, the legitimate 
id desire of independence of the powers that be, which cannot be obtained 
be in the village, and secondly, to the impossibility of obtaining the land he 
needs to enable him to rise in the social scale ; and whilst recognising the 
enormous advance in the condition of the country labourer since the 
terrible days of vice and degradation fostered by the old poor law at the 
beginning of the century—an advance which has even visibly progressed 
within the last ten years—concludes that the only possible means by which 
any further advance can be held out to him—the only possible means, that 
is to say, by which he can be induced to remain in the country, is by in 
some way or other making it possible for him to rent or buy land 
for himself. Mr. Perey Wyndham deals more with figures, and after 
giving the current wages in country districts in various parts of England, 
and dwelling on the condition of the rural lalourer, more especially in 
Wiltshire, gives an elaborate comparative table of the receipts and ex- 
penditure of the unskilled labourer in town and country—concluding that 
the town labourer gets 52s. a year more in cash, but, that on the 
whole he is not so well off as his country confrére. 
Mrs. Awdry (wife of Bishop William Awdry, of South Tokyo, and 
; daughter of Bishop Moberly). Early Chapters-in Science, a Popular 
Account of the elements of Natural History,” &c., &e. Numerous 
illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 6s. Murray. London. 1899 (?) 
Canon R. C. Moberly, D.D. (s. of Bishop Moberly). ‘ Ministerial 
Priesthood.” Second edition, with a new Introduction. 8vo. 14s. 
Murray. London. 1899 (?) 
Abraham Hayward. “The Art of Dining.” A new complete and 
annotated edition by Charles Sayle. Cr. 8vo. 5s. Murray. London. 
1899 (2?) 
Emma Marie Caillard. “Law and Freedom.” Nisbet & Co. 
{ 8s. 6d. net. 
Noticed, Spectator, Feb. 3rd, 1900. 
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