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A Chapter in Manchester History. Containing a facsimile of Cobden's pamphlet, “Incorporate your Borough,” with an Introduction and a complete Cobden Bibliography, by William E. A. Oxon. With 7 Photogravure Plates, and 3 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo, half parchment, 21s. net.
The Lives of Francois and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, 1834-1904. By C. W. Mackintosh. With a Photogravure Frontispiece, a Map, and 64 other Illustrations. Second Edition. Demy 8vo, 15s. net.
By the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. With Photogravure Portrait from the Original Drawing by Lowes Dickinson. 2 vols. Large Crown 8vo, 7s. the set. Also a “Popular” Edition. 1 vol. Large Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. net.
[Illustration: SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.
[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL SKETCH FOR THE POSTAGE STAMP]
(Born December 3, 1795, (Born November 25, 1796, Died August 27, 1879) Died May 27, 1881)
THEIR LAST REMAINING IMMEDIATE DESCENDANT
“A fond desire to preserve the memory of those we love from oblivion is an almost universal sentiment.”
—(Lord Dufferin on his mother—_Songs, Poems, and Verses_. By HELEN, LADY DUFFERIN.)
“Reform does not spell ruin, lads—remember Rowland Hill!”
—(_Punch_ on the Postal Reform Jubilee, 1890.)
In Gladstone's “'musings for the good of man,'” writes John Morley in his Life of the dead statesman (ii. 56, 57), the “Liberation of Intercourse, to borrow his own larger name for Free Trade, figured in his mind's eye as one of the promoting conditions of abundant employment.... He recalled the days when our predecessors thought it must be for man's good to have 'most of the avenues by which the mind and also the hand of man conveyed and exchanged their respective products' blocked or narrowed by regulation and taxation. Dissemination of news, travelling, letters, transit of goods, were all made as costly and difficult as the legislation could make them. 'I rank,' he said, 'the introduction of cheap postage for letters, documents, patterns, and printed matter, and the abolition of all taxes on printed matter, in the catalogue of free legislation. These great measures may well take their place beside the abolition of prohibitions and protective duties, the simplifying of revenue laws, and the repeal of the Navigation Act, as forming together the great code of industrial emancipation.'” To the above the biographer adds that in Gladstone's article in the _Nineteenth Century_ on Free Trade, Railways, and Commerce, he divided the credit of our material progress between the two great factors, the Liberation of Intercourse and the Improvement of Locomotion.