Excerpt from Cobden Club Essays: Second Series, 1871-2

The present volume contains a series of Essays on various subjects of great international, social, and economic importance, namely, The Causes of War, and the Means of Reducing their Number - Primogeniture - The Present Aspect of the Land Question - Financial Reform - A Proposed New Treaty of Commerce between England and Germany - English and International Coinage - Trade-Unions, and the Relation of Capital and Labour - The Colonial Question - and the Economic and Financial History of the United States in recent years.

The Committee of the Cobden Club feel assured that the public will see with gratification, that among the chief contributors to the volume are several foreign writers of distinguished rank as economists and publicists.

Mr. Dadd A. Wells, of the United States, is known throughout Europe as one of the ablest living financiers; and the Committee believe that his essay will hold a permanent place in economic history.

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