x CONTENTS. 



UNITED KINGDOM. 



TABLE PAGE 



17. Average Total Weekly Earnings (in " Cash " and " in 



Kind ") of Ordinary Agricultural Labourers in the 

 United Kingdom . . . . . 153 



1 8. Averages of Wages for each Country of the United 



Kingdom . . . . . .156 



19. Classified Agricultural Population of the United 



Kingdom . . . . . .158 



20. Acreage under Crops and Grass, and Number of Live 



Stock in the United Kingdom and Principal Islands 



in 1910 ...... 170 



APPENDIX. 



A GLANCE AT THE PAST. 



SOME PICTURES OF 1873. 



CHAP. 



XXIX. ROMANCE AND REALITY . . .181 



XXX. THE WEST COUNTRY GENERALLY . .187 



XXXI. WEST COUNTRY PEASANTS . . .192 



XXXII. GLANCING BACK AT DWELLINGS AND WAGES 194 



XXXIII. CHARACTER AND EDUCATION . . .219 



XXXIV. PEASANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN . . 223 

 XXXV. THE MISSION OF CANON GIRDLESTONE . 227 



XXXVI. CIDER AS A " PRIVILEGE " . . .238 



XXXVII. POVERTY 241 



XXXVIII. BENEVOLENCE ..... 246 



XXXIX. ALLOTMENTS ..... 249 



XL. OTHER " PRIVILEGES " . . .253 



