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Part II. Two vols. Containing early Customs of Lincoln, Awards, 

 Novum Kegistrum, etc., with Documents of Salisbury, York, Lichfield, 

 Hereford, and Truro. Pp. ccxc. -f 160, xxvi. + 161—957. 



Together three vols. 8vo. Cloth. 1892—7. Published £2 2s. 6d. 



The second part has an Introduction of nearly 300 pages by Canon 

 Christopher Wordsworth, who saw the whole'book through the press. 



Well reviewed, Academy and Church Heview. 



Mrs. H. M. Batson and The Honble. Percy Wyndham 



are the authors of a couple of papers on " Town and Country Labourers " in 

 The Nineteenth Century, Oct., 1899, pp. 570—582, 583—590. The former 

 ascribes the migration of the labourer to the towns to firstly, the legitimate 

 desire' of independence of the powers that be, which cannot be obtained 

 in the village, and secondly, to the impossibility of obtaining the land he 

 needs to enable him to rise in the social scale ; and whilst recognising the 

 enormous advance in the condition of the country labourer since the 

 terrible days of vice and degradation fostered by the old poor law at the 

 beginning of the century — an advance which has even visibly progressed 

 within the last ten years — concludes that the only possible means by which 

 any further advance can be held out to him — the only possible means, that 

 is to say, by which he can be induced to remain in the country, is by in 

 some way or other making it possible for him to rent or buy land 

 for himself. Mr. Percy Wyndham deals more with figures, and after 

 giving the current wages in country districts in various parts of England, 

 and dwelling on the condition of the rural labourer, more especially in 

 Wiltshire, gives an elaborate comparative table of trie receipts and ex- 

 penditure of the unskilled labourer in town and country — concluding that 

 the town labourer gets 52s. a year more in cash, but, that on the 

 whole he is not so well off as his country confrere. 



Ml*S. Awdry (wife of Bishop William Awdry, of South Tokyo, and 

 daughter of Bishop Moberly). Early Chapters in Science, a Popular 

 Account of the elements of Natural History," &c, &c. Numerous 

 illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 6s. Murray. London. 1899 (?) 



Canon R. C. Moberly, D,D, (s. of Bishop Moberly). " Ministerial 

 Priesihood." Second edition, with a new Introduction. 8vo. 14s. 

 Murray. London. 1899 (?) 



Abraham Hay Ward. " The Art of Dining." A new complete and 

 annotated edition by Charles Sayle. Cr. 8vo. 5s. Murray. London. 

 1899 (?) 



Emma Marie Caillard. "Law and Freedom." Nisbet & Co. 

 3s. 6d. net. 



Noticed, Spectator, Feb. 3rd, 1900. 

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