The First Part of this work, originally read before the Statistical Society of London, deals with the Amount of Taxation; the Second Part, which now constitutes the main portion of the work, is almost entirely new, and embraces the important questions of Rating, of the relative Taxation of Land, Personalty, and Industry, and of the direct effect of Taxes upon Prices.  The author trusts that the body of facts here collected may be of permanent value as a record of the past progress and present condition of the population of the United Kingdom, independently of the transitory circumstances of its present Taxation.

NATIONAL INCOME.  With Coloured Diagrams. 8vo. 3_s_. 6_d_.

Part I.—­Classification of the Population, Upper, Middle, and Labour Classes.  II.—­Income of the United Kingdom.

“A painstaking and certainly most interesting inquiry.”—­Pall Mall Gazette.

Bernard
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FOUR LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH DIPLOMACY.  By Mountague Bernard, M.A., Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Oxford. 8vo. 9_s_.

Four Lectures, dealing with (1) The Congress of Westphalia; (2) Systems of Policy; (3) Diplomacy, Past and Present; (4) The Obligations of Treaties.

Blake
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THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, THE ARTIST. By Alexander Gilchrist.  With numerous Illustrations from Blake’s designs, and Fac-similes of his studies of the “Book of Job.”  Two vols. medium 8vo. 32_s_.

These volumes contain a Life of Blake; Selections from his Writings, including Poems; Letters; Annotated Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings; List, with occasional notes, of Blake’s Engravings and Writings.  There are appended Engraved Designs by Blake:  (1) The Book of Job, twenty-one photo-lithographs from the originals; (2) Songs of Innocence and Experience, sixteen of the original Plates.

Bright (John, M.P.)
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SPEECHES ON QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY.  By John Bright, M.P.  Edited by Professor Thorold Rogers.  Two Vols. 8vo. 25_s_.  Second Edition, with Portrait.

“I have divided the Speeches contained in these volumes into groups.  The materials for selection are so abundant, that I have been constrained to omit many a speech which is worthy of careful perusal.  I have naturally given prominence to those subjects with which Mr. Bright has been especially identified, as, for example, India, America, Ireland, and Parliamentary Reform.  But nearly every topic of great public interest on which Mr. Bright has spoken is represented in these volumes.”—­Editor’s Preface.

AUTHOR’S POPULAR EDITION.  Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth.  Second Edition. 3_s_. 6_d_.

Bryce
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THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE.  By James Bryce, B.C.L., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. [Reprinting.