NOTE. 
TEE importance of studying the causes, through which 
the existing state of affairs has come into being, is 
being recognised by many of those who take an interest 
in the social and industrial questions of the present day. 
With the view of meeting the requirements of such readers, 
the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have con- 
sented to reprint the portions of The Growth of Industry 
and Commerce in Modern Times which deal with the 
revolution that occurred, both in town and country, during 
the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. 
The original divisions and pagination have been preserved, 
as it may sometimes be convenient to use this reprint, in 
slasses or otherwise, along with the complete work. 
Ww. 
0. 
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
29 November 1907.