CHAPTER VII. 



SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL 



VILLAGES (continued). 



Petty trades in Germany : Discussions upon the subject and 

 conclusions arrived at Results of the census taken in 

 1882, 1895, and 1907 Petty trades in Russia Conclusions. 



Petty Trades in Germany. 



/ nn v HE various industries which still have 

 retained in Germany the characters of 

 petty and domestic trades have been the sub- 

 ject of many exhaustive explorations, especially 

 by A. M. Thun and Prof. Issaieff, on behalf 

 of the Russian Petty Trades Commission, 

 Emanuel Hans Sax, Paul Voigt, and very 

 many others. By this time the subject has a 

 bulky literature, and such impressive and 

 suggestive pictures have been drawn from 

 life for different regions and trades that I felt 

 tempted to sum up these life-true descrip- 

 tions. However, as in such a summary I 

 should have to repeat much of what has already 

 been said and illustrated in the preceding chap- 



