[Printed pamphlet.] [Drophead title] The Claims of Capital considered. By William Browne.

16mo, 36pp. Printed in small type. Disbound. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. A separate title-page may have been printed on a front wrap, now lacking. The pamphlet begins in stirring style: 'The conflict between labor and capital becomes more and more the struggle of the age. On both sides there are titanic powers engaged in what appears to be headlong and indiscriminating war. There may be now and again a lull in the contest - there may be some kind of truce proclaimed - some good sort of people may approach the combatants andn induce them for a season to lay down their arms. But to the calm looker-on it is evident that all the fine talk about mutual forbearance, sympathy and good will, is only a makeshift [...]'. In great part the pamphlet is a discussion of John Stuart Mill's 'Principles of Political Economy' (1848). On the last page are listed five 'Works on the Labor and Money Questions' by Browne, published by Lowell. One: Thoughts on Paper Currency and Lending on Interest, as affecting the prosperity of Labour, Commerce and Manufactures [also available from Sampson Low & Co, London]. Two: A New Catechism on Political Economy. Three: No fund in Commerce or Labor for Lending on Interest. Four: The Church, our Modern System of Commerce, and the fulfilment of Prophecy. Five: The Claims of Capital considered. A final note reads: 'All letters, newspapers, reviews, &c., intended for the Author, are requested to be addressed to the care of Mr. Lowell, as above. Friendly readers can render important assistance by contributions, however small, in aid of the printing and circulation of these tracts.' Scarce: BL and several foreign libraries appear to have either the pamphlet of the microfiche.