25 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 3

We deeply regret the death of M. Yves Guyot at

a great age. Few Frenchmen were at one time better known in England than this sturdy and witty economist, the true disciple of Bastiat, who upheld the banners of Free Trade and Individualism in France for half a century. He lectured frequently in England and often wrote letters to the Times and the Spectator. Some of his economic books were solid studies ; others, perhaps the most effective, were full of fun. We remember in his little book, Les Prejuges Economiques, reviewed by us in 1910, a most amusing imaginary conversation in which Mr. Harold Cox annihilated -Mr. Lloyd George, who tried to defend his land taxation. M. Guyot shed a brilliant light on economics with his mingled learning and humour.