FISCAL FACTS AND FICTIONS. 



BY 



FREDERICK G. SHAW, F.GS. t Assoc.M.Inst.CE., etc. 



The following- extracts are taken from a few of the first three weeks' reviews of the 



above work. 



THE MORNING POST. "An able and concise book. . . . There is not a single point in the 

 controversy on which Mr. Shaw does not touch concisely. . . . The book is admirably arranged. 

 and so simple that even a Free Trader can understand it, and vivaciously written." 



THE IRISH TIMES. "Precise and elaborate . . . full of authenticated statistics, and is a 

 very valuable addition. . . . He is a writer of old standing and of acknowledged ability, and 

 his range is exceptionally v.-ide. ... ' Comets and their Tails ' has been recognised as a most 

 ingenious theoretical speculation in celestial science. . . . But this work, in a sober, serious 

 style, gives the reformer's view of the position with admirable lucidity, and pleads their case 

 with extreme cleverness and strength." 



THE SOUTHAMPTON OBSERVER. " An admirable text-book. . . . This book should have 

 the widest possible circulation amongst the English-speaking race." 



THE SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH. " 'I here is force and originality about it. He takes up, one 

 by one, the arguments of Free Traders, and shatters them. Lord Rosebery comes out very badly 

 damaged, and there is little left of men like Mr. Asquith, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 

 Mr. Morley, and Lord Goschen. . . . This book will prove invaluable. . . . Sir Alfred Bateman's 

 estimates, from which the Free Traders get most of their inspiration, are subjected to a critical 

 analysis, and shown to be unsound. ... '1 here is much more in this valuable volume." 



THE NOTTINGHAM DAILY GUARDIAN. "An able and trenchant writer; . . . in short and 

 clearly-cut sentences ; . . . and the facts and figures upon which his arguments and criticisms are 

 . . . striking to the eve, helpful to the memory, and very convenient for reference. . . . He also 

 submits recent speeches of leading opponents of fiscal reform to severe and scathing criticism, 

 exposing the weaknesses of their position, and showing in many instances the misleading nature 

 of their mode of handling- the statistical materials with which they are dealing. . . . These argu- 

 ments are supported at every step by figures that cannot be impugned." 



THE DERBY MERCURY. " Mr. Frederick G. Shaw is an enthusiastic Tariff Reformer, whose 

 words, written and spoken, have exercised a wide influence, and whose habit it is to call a spade a 

 spade, and who tackles the arguments of the principal exponents of the Cobdenite case with a 

 freedom and energy which is refreshing in these days of kid-glove controversy." 



THE NEWCASTLE DAILY JOURNAL. "As a student of political economy, and, moreover, a 

 man with a wide knowledge of commerce . . . Mr. Shaw's style is fresh and vigorous, so that 

 he is enabled to invest his ' facts and figures ' with an interest and attractiveness too rarely found 

 in works in any way concerned, ... its presentation of vital information being effective to a 

 degree." 



THE AFRICAN REVIEW." The style is eminently plain and colloquial, easy and conventional, 

 pithy and forcible, and without ambiguity." 



THE BRITISH CANADIAN REVIEW. " We have come across no book on the fiscal question 

 in which the necessary statistics and other usually dry data are presented in so interesting a form. 

 ... If the majority can assimilate the facts collected in this instructive work, this country will 

 then achieve a position of industrial prosperity and national wealth far in excess of any records in 

 the past. We would warmly recommend a careful study of this book by all open to honest 

 argument." 



JACKSON'S OXFORD JOURNAL. " He shows the advantages . . . and the advisability and 

 feasibility of subsidising home-grown wheat. . . . The work contains much that is original, and 

 should prove helpful in the present controversy." 



THE LOWESTOFT STANDARD. " ' Fiscal Facts and Fictions ' ... is likely to become a recog- 

 nised text-book for fiscal students. . . . This work is characterised by remarkable force and 

 originality*" 



THE FARM AND HOME. " The question of the day is not often presented in a livelier or more 

 telling manner than it is in this the latest book on the fiscal question." 



THE HUDDERSFIELD DAILY CHRONICLE. "But few have succeeded in throwing such a 

 fierce light on the absurdity of England continuing to be a Free Trade country than ^loes the 

 volume before us. ... Is an exceedingly well-got-up volume of some 250 pages, every one of 

 which, it is not too much to say, contains some startling truth, some convincing argument. . . . 

 Mr. Shaw has accomplished his self-imposed task of setting up new and substantial facts and 

 demolishing ancient and absurd fictions in a very able and lucid manner. ... An admirable 

 work." 



To be obtained from the Author, II, Neville Court, Abbey Road, N. W. Price 5s. net. 



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