THE HISTORY OF TRADE BETWEEN THE United Kingdom and the United States WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BY SYDNEY J. CHAPMAN Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Political Science in the LONDON SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LTD. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS HF 3093 C46 PREFACE THIS book is a portion of the essay which was awarded the Cobden Prize at Cambridge in 1898. The rest has been kept back either on the ground that it would not prove to be of general interest, or because of its tentative character. But many of the opinions to be found in this work are built on the discarded diagrams and matter, so they were not entirely valueless. The curt statements here and there as to the weight of different tariffs are generally the conclusions which I arrived at after making careful analyses of the various schedules which related to imports from the United Kingdom. But in no case have I made a judgment without first carefully weighing whatever opinion Professor V |