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MESSRS. PERCIVAL'S LIST
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Demy 8vo. 16s.

A History of the
Theories of Production and Distribution
in English Political Economy,
from 1776 to 1848

By EDWIN CANNAN, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford.

Contents.—The Wealth of a Nation—The Idea of the Production of Wealth—The First 'Requisite of Production,' Labour—The Second 'Requisite of Production,' Capital—The Third 'Requisite of Production,' Land—The Idea of the Distribution of Wealth—Pseudo Distribution (causes which affect (1) the absolute amount of Wages per head; (2) the rate of Profits; and (3) the absolute amount of Rent)—Distribution Proper (causes which affect the proportions in which a given produce is divided between different classes and individuals)—Politics and Economics.


In two Volumes, sold separately. Crown 8vo, 6s. each.

The Victorian Age of English Literature

By Mrs. OLIPHANT and F. R. OLIPHANT, B.A.

Contents.

Vol. I.—The State of Literature at the Queen's Accession, and of those whose work was already done—Men who had made their name, especially John Gibson Lockhart, Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt—Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, and other Essayists and Critics—Macaulay and the other Historians and Biographers in the early part of the reign—The Greater Poets—Dickens, Thackeray, and the older Novelists—Index.

Vol. II.—Writers on Religious and Theological subjects—Scientific Writers—Philosophical Writers—The Younger Poets—The Younger Novelists—Writers on Art—Later Historians, Biographers, Essayists, etc., and the present condition of Literature—Journalists—Index.


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