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SHIFTING CULTIVATION IN AFRICA Pierre de Schlippe
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A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PIRATES Capt. Charles Johnson
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This trade played a vital part in the economy of the American plantations, enabling them both to accumulate capital and to discharge some of their constantly increasing obligations to London financiers. Yet for so vital a commerce it was curiously haphazard—conducted largely in ignorance of markets or prices, in tiny ships, and with few capital resources. Losses were frequent but the gains, when made, so great that State legislatures and town councils attempted by restrictive practices to secure protected markets, and beggar their neighbours. One of the most fascinating aspects of this study is the clear demonstration that a nation stumbles on riches and acquires great prosperity almost in spite of itself. Almost equally remarkable is the lack of foresight' administrative skill, and intelligence shown by the merchants themselves.
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Rude Housekeeping
HOUSEKEEPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Rosain- Bayne-Powell. (Murray, 18s.)
MRS. BAYNE-POWELL darts in each chapter from one end of tb,,e century to the other, from town to country, from north to sout!:, from rich to poor. In the end one is neverquite sure of the conn"r tions in any one household at any one time. We are told, fu instance, that a daily change of linen was usual among the LIPPlyer and middle classes, yet that in many households clothes were nttlie washed once a quarter. Surely not in the same classes, or
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