FISCAL FACTS & FICTIONS 



By FRED. G. SHAW, F.G.S., 



Assoc.M Inst.C.E., etc. 



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." 



Irish Times. " Precise and elaborate. . . full of authenticated statis- 

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

 and of acknowledged ability, and his range is exceptionally wide. 

 But this work, in a sober, serious style, gives the reformers' views of the 

 position with admirable lucidity, and pleads their case with extreme cleverness 

 and strength." 



Sheffield Telegraph. " There 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. . . . There is 

 much more in this valuable volume." 



Nottingham Daily Guardian. " An able and trenchant writer ; . . . in 

 short and clearly-cut sentences ; 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." 



Newcastle Daily Journal. " As a student of political economy, and, more- 

 over, 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." 



African Review. " This style is eminently plain and colloquial, easy and 

 conventional, pithy and forcible, and without ambiguity." 



Jackson's Oxford Journal. " He shows the advantages . . . and the 

 advisability and feasibility of subsidizing home-grown wheat. . . . The 

 work contains very much that is original, and should prove helpful in 

 the present controversy." 



Huddersfield Daily Chronicle. " But few had succeeded in throwing such 

 a fierce light on the absurdity of England continuing to be a Free Trade 

 country than does the volume before us. ... An admirable work." 



Price 5s. net. 



To be obtained from the AUTHOR, n, NEVILLE COURT, ABBEY ROAD, N.W. 



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