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recent phases of agriculture subsequent to the Napoleonic 

 wars.^ 



* For anyone wishing to read up the history of English 

 Agriculture and its evolution let me recommend Mr. Curtlcr's in- 

 terestingly written Shot Histoty of Eni;lish Af;rict(lfure (Clarendon 

 Press, Oxford) ; Mr. Prothcro's Ai;ricullute, Past and Piesent. 

 And for an exhaustive history of the agricultural labourer, A Htstoty 

 of the Encltsh Agrtct4ltutal Labourer, by Hasbach, and The Village 

 Labourer, 1760-183J, Hammond. For a full history of Enclosure 

 in all its forms, The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common 

 Fields, Slater. Coke of Norfolk (John Lane, Bodley Head) is a 

 most interesting book in two volumes and gives a good picture of 

 what was going on agriculturally at the end of the eighteenth 

 centur)'. For a short and interesting history of economics the 

 Pnticiples of Political Economy by List is strongly recommended ; 

 it deals impartially with the questions of free trade and protec- 

 tion, and it is a book that every student should read. 



