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 1920 SHORT NOTICES 625 but in one chapter conspicuously, and in the others to a less degree, they have contributed to the story of the Industrial Revolution. The last book published with that title, M. Mantoux's admirable volume, stopped abruptly at 1800, a date at which no revolution properly so called had occurred in most of the leading industries of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond's account of the position of the wool-working industries down to 1830, contained in a chapter which occupies about a fifth of this volume, is a valuable addition to M. Mantoux's narrative. There is new material also, though not on the technical side, iii their chapter on the silk industry of Spitalfields. The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than the two earlier volumes of the series ; though the introduction, which describes the England of the period in terms of ' civil war ', is surely an exaggeration. If this is civil war, then any non- democratic government which keeps, or tries to keep, order by force is also in a state of civil war. Strong passions on both sides, repressive measures, the use of the troops to keep order, and occasional rioting are bad things, but they are not civil war. Z. Three new volumes of Bohn's Popular Library (London : Bell, 1920) give very handy and well-arranged cheap editions of several important authorities for nineteenth-century economic history. In one volume, called Pioneers of Land Reform, are included Thomas Spence's The Real Rights of Man, William Ogilvie's Th& Right of Property in Land, and Tom Paine's Agrarian Justice. There is a short introductory note by Mr. M. Beer. The Life and Struggles of William Lovett, the Chartist, is reprinted in two small volumes with an introduction by Mr. R. H. Tawney. Lovett's book is comparatively recent (1876) ; but Spence's famous lecture to the Newcastle Philosophical Society, ' for Printing of which the Society did the Author the Honour to expel him ', as he says on the title-page, and Ogilvie's and Paine's tracts have hitherto been rather hard to procure, though all have been reprinted at various times. J. H. C. Dr. E. S. Brown has done a very useful work in devoting a careful and elaborate monograph to The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Pur- chase, 1803-1812 (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1920). That purchase, he reminds us, is not a dead issue, but lives on in the constitutional history of the present day. It serves as the comer stone for all interpretations of the constitutional right of the United States to acquire and govern territory ; and such acquisitions have been one of the most significant features in the history of the United States. H. E. E. In The Methodist Unitarian Movement (Manchester : University Press, 1919) Mr. H. McLachlan tells the story of Joseph Cooke, an eloquent young preacher, who was deposed in 1806 by the Wesleyan Methodist conference for a ' liberalizing ' theology which would have excited no dispute at a later time. He was stationed at Rochdale, where many of his congregation supported him in founding a new chapel. Before his death in 1811 a second had been established. His doctrine seems to have VOL. XXXV. — ^NO. CXL. 8 S