xii PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 



I take advantage of this opportunity to address 

 my best thanks to the editors of the Nineteenth Century 

 and the Forum for their kind permission of repro- 

 ducing these essays in a new form, as also to those 

 friends and correspondents who have aided me in 

 collecting information about agriculture and the 

 petty trades. 



P. KROPOTKIN. 



BROMLEY, KENT, 1898. 



