Excerpt from Statistics
When Sir Robert Giffen retired from the public service in 1897 he proposed to write a popular handbook on statistics, and so far carried out his intention as to complete the chapters now published. Like many old journalists he worked in spurts, often brilliant and sometimes sustained. But when he was checked for a considerable time he was frequently reluctant to resume his interrupted labours; and with each succeeding year he felt less and less inclined to complete a synthetic survey of the statistical field which dealt with the facts and figures of the end of the nineteenth century. It was not merely that the figures themselves needed revision up to date and that a library of official literature was required for the purpose. The twentieth century has already seen considerable modifications, both in the form and in the substance of our national statistics, and to bring the book abreast of the time would have needed an amount of rewriting and of tiresome compilation of new tables which discouraged further effort.
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