A D VER T I SEMEN TS. 



FISCAL FACTS AND FICTIONS. 



BY 



FREDERICK G. SHAW, F.G.S., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., 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 

 wide. . . . 'Comets and their Tails ' has been recognised as a nost 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." There is force and originality about if. 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. , . . There 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 eye, 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 arguments 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." 



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 nr-similate 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." 



Lowesto/t Standard. "'Fiscal Facts and Fictions' . . . is likely to become a recognised text-book for 

 fiscal students. . . . This work is characterised by remarkable force and originality." 



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 Chroniclt. "But few have succeeded in throwing such a fierce light on the 

 absurdity of England continuing to be a Free Trade country than does a volume before us ... is an 



setting up 



lucid manner. . . . an admirable work." 



Aberdeen Journal. "This is a very vigorously -written exposure of Free Trade fallacies . . . By an 

 elaborate but close analysis ... he takes Sir Alfred Bateman severely to task for his memoranda in the 

 Board of Trade Blue-Book, which, he argues, contain views unjustified by the facts . . . and in a most 

 scathing fashion criticises the utterances on the subject of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Mr. Asquith, and 

 other anti-reformers, and altogether presents a strong case for a departure from our present out-of-date fiscal 

 arrangements." 



Birmingham Gazette and Express." ... is courageous enough to follow Sir Alfred Bateman into 

 this trackless wilderness, and argues with much force that that eminent authority has considerably 

 overestimated the amount to be set to the account as freight earned. . . . Mr. Shaw gives full justification- 

 for his description of Mr. Asquith's maxim as astounding and absurd ... in a style that is always lucid, 

 vigorous, and even . . . entertaining." 



Pall Mall Gazette. "There is no question about Mr. Shaw being a whole-hogger, ^nd those who like 

 their arguments served hot and strong will find plenty of pleasure and profit in his pages." 



Glasgow Evening Newt 

 to a good many readers wh 



Bristol Times. "This 

 forth lucid to the utmost." 



The Tunbridge Wells Courier." It is a book well worth reading." 



Mining Journal. " Mr. Shaw's book is instinct with a freshness and vigour toooften wanting in economical 

 controversy. The style is pleasantly terse and pithy, his conclusions are set out so simply and in such striking 

 relief that there is no possibility of misconception. It is the barest justice to its author to say that his book is 

 singularly spontaneous, original, and fresh ; that he displays remarkable power in the grouping of general 

 economical factors.' 1 



To be obtained from the Author, 11, Neville Court, Abbey Road, N.W. Price 5s. net. 

 SEE PAGE VIII WORKS BY SAME AUTHOR. 



