To a very large extent Lord Sanderson's Memories of Sixty
Years (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a history of the recent phases of the working-class movement on its educational side, for he was intimately connected; as tutor and 'eventually as principal, with the Ruskin College at Oxford for eighteen years. In this connexion he records with delight the remark of a lady, The wife of a well-known Oxford don, whom he once took in to dinner : " I think it isa-pit* to teach 'working men nothing but art." But economics was what Mr. Furniss (as Lord Sanderson was then) taught them : economics with a difference, however, for to_ the working man that subject is the vital problem_of his everyday life ; he does not regard it, as the ordinary under- graduate might, from the point of view of an onlooker. Throughout the book the personal note is lightly emphasized, but it possesses a very special interest in that the author has been practically blind from birth ; and then there is the social interest' that depicts the child- of a typically Victorian and Conservative father developing into a convinced Socialist.
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