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=A History of English Political Economy.= By L. L. PRICE, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon. Third Edition.

=Problems of Poverty=: An Inquiry into the Industrial Conditions of the Poor. Fourth Edition. By J. A. HOBSON, M.A.

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Transcriber’s Notes

This catalog has been extracted from the book The Alien Invasion, Project Gutenberg E-Book 47043.

Punctuation errors have been corrected.

Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_; boldface by surrounding with =equal signs=.