Three Typescript Lectures. One: Professional Institute Lecture Delivered by Professor Stephen Leacock of McGill University at the Auditorium, Ottawa, January 10, 1927, on the presen toutlook of political economy in especial relation to public policy in Canada. Mr. Fred Cook presiding. - 9 pages. Two: University Extension Course, Lecture Number 5, on the gold standard and its relation to industrial recovery by Professor Stephen Leacock, at Ottawa, Ont., Feb.7, 1927. Mr. J.H. Campbell, Chairman. - 4 pages. Three: University Extension Course Lecture Number 12, Social Justice and Social Revolution, by Dr. Stephen Leacock, at Ottawa, Ont., March 28, 1927. - [1], 10 pages

Published by [Ottawa]. Unpublished. 1927

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folio, 33cm, being 100 typescript pages in various paginations, first and second copies, bound-in plain green linen binder, very good to fine, With a Leacock folder and a silk Leacock memorial bookmark, loosely inserted. (cgc) Not located in Spadoni,Bibliography of Stephen Leacock, 1998. Cf D27.2 for similar reference to the second speech listed above. - The third lecture concludes with the famous Leacock epigram: "A socialist is an economist who has gone wrong."The collection also includes 4 lectures by W.W. Goforth: The Problem of Canadian Immigration", "On the Minimum Wage", "On Foreign Trade of Canada" & "On Trade Unionism in Canada". Also includes 3 lectures byDr. J.C. Hemmeon: "On the Canadian Banking System-Its Strength and Weakness", "On the Sources of Government Revenue with Special Relation to Canada" & "On Sources of Public Revenue with Particular Reference to the Provincial Governments." A printed booklet has been bound-in: "The Problems of Canadian Transportation" by Laurence Chalmers Tombs" and tipped-in newspaper clipping reviews of the lectures.…

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Three Typescript Lectures. One: Professional Institute Lecture Delivered by Professor Stephen Leacock of McGill University at the Auditorium, Ottawa, January 10, 1927, on the presen toutlook of political economy in especial relation to public policy in Canada. Mr. Fred Cook presiding. - 9 pages. Two: University Extension Course, Lecture Number 5, on the gold standard and its relation to industrial recovery by Professor Stephen Leacock, at Ottawa, Ont., Feb.7, 1927. Mr. J.H. Campbell, Chairman. - 4 pages. Three: University Extension Course Lecture Number 12, Social Justice and Social Revolution, by Dr. Stephen Leacock, at Ottawa, Ont., March 28, 1927. - [1], 10 pages
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LEACOCK, Stephen
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[Ottawa]. Unpublished. 1927
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