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The Land and the 

 Commonwealth 



By 



T. E. MARKS 



Member of Surveyors' Institution and of the Eighty 

 Land Club Group. 



With an Introduction by 



J. HUGH EDWARDS, M.P. 



(Author of " The Life of D. Lloyd George ") 



The work contains numerous graphic descriptions, which 

 arrest the attention of the thinker. 



Among the subjects dealt with by the Author are the fol- 

 lowing : Emigration ; The economic Misuse of Land ; Land 

 retained for Sport and Pleasure ; Sub-division of unduly large 

 Estates ; The Social Influence of Land-ownership ; The Effect 

 of the Budget of 1909-1910; Game Laws; The Condition of 

 the Agricultural Labourer ; Rural Wages, Rural Housing, and 

 Rural Depopulation ; The Insidious Evil of Charity in Vil- 

 lages ; Luxury — one Root of the Evil ; Cottage Building by 

 Public Loans ; Small Holdings ; Credit Banks and Agricultural 

 Co-operation; Afforestation ; Land Laws made by Landlords ; 

 Restrictions on the Use of Land permitted by Law ; Specimen 

 Leases ; Who receives the Lion's Share of Tenants' Industry ? 

 The Risks of thorough Cultivation ; Judicial Fixing of Rents ; 

 Injustice to Town Lessees who are hedged around with severe 

 Limitations ; Are Renewal Fines Justifiable ? The Leasehold 

 System ; Settled Estates ; Lack of Inducement to effect 

 Permanent Improvements ; The Undesirability of raising 

 Death Duties by Means of Mortgages ; Legislative Remedies 

 Suggested ; Trust Estates ; Copyhold Tenure ; Its Abolition 

 considered. 



Speakers, Writers, and Students will find this book invaluable. 



P. S. KING 8 SON, Orchard House, Westminster. 



