HISTORICAL OUTLINES BY Arury Bettoes & H. DE B. GIBBINS, M.A. SOMETIME UNIversity (Cobden) prizeman iN POLITICAL ECONOMY, OXFORD; AUTHOR OF "THE INDUSTRIAL History of engLAND" AND "THE HISTORY OF COMMERCE IN EUROPE" WITH MAPS, TABLES, AND A PLAN METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL REFORM. The Sibyl offers her books, in which the future is forecast, to the Roman statesman, according to the legend. The price is refused twice, and, after each repulse, she destroys irrevocably one of the volumes, demanding the same price for the third. This is what Bacon called the wisdom of the ancients, and the moral is plain.” JAMES E. THOROLD ROGERS. |