expiring of this license the plant could be bought by the government. In the meantime the post-office authorities have power to restrict rates. An appropriation of L2,000,000 was put in the hands of the Postmaster General to extend the government telephone system. It seems quite certain that by 1925, at latest, all telephones will be in the hands of the government. The post-office savings-bank was established in 1861. Any sum from one shilling upward is accepted from any depositor until his deposits rise to L50 in any one year, or a total of L200 in all. It presents great attractions from its security and its convenience. The government through the post-office pays two and one-half per cent interest. In 1870 there was deposited in the post-office savings-banks approximately L14,000,000, in 1880 L31,000,000, and ten years later L62,000,000. In 1880 arrangements were made by which government bonds and annuities can be bought through the post-office. In 1890 some L4,600,000 was invested in government stock in this way. The parcels post was established in 1883. This branch of the post-office does a large part of the work that would otherwise be done by private express companies. It takes charge of packages up to eleven pounds in weight and under certain circumstances up to twenty-one pounds, presented at any branch post-office, and on prepayment of regular charges delivers them to their consignees. In these and other forms each year within recent times has seen some extension of the field of government control for the good of the community in general, or for the protection of some particular class in the community, and there is at the same time a constant increase in the number and variety of occupations that the government undertakes. Instead of withdrawing from the field of intervention in economic concerns, and restricting its activity to the narrowest possible limits, as was the tendency in the last period, the government is constantly taking more completely under its regulation great branches of industry, and even administering various lines of business that formerly were carried on by private hands. *77. BIBLIOGRAPHY* Jevons, Stanley: _The State in Relation to Labor_. "Alfred" (Samuel Kydd): _The History of the Factory Movement from the Year 1802 to the Enactment of the Ten Hours Bill in 1847_. Von Plener, E.: _A History of English Factory Legislation_. Cooke-Taylor, R. W.: _The Factory System and the Factory Acts_. Redgrave, Alexander: _The Factory Acts_. Shaftesbury, The Earl of: _Speeches on Labour Questions_. Birrell, Augustine: _Law of Employers' Liability_. Shaw-Lefevre, G.: _English Commons and Forests_.