Cornhill Magazine,  3 (1861), 318–31.

Toilers and Spinsters

[Anne I Ritchie]

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Statistics, Sociology


    Notes that 'Statistics are very much the fashion now-a-days, and we cannot take up a newspaper or a pamphlet without seeing in round numbers that so many people will do so and so in the course of the year' (321–22).



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