Saturday, December 27, 2008

Trollopean advice to the Home Office

A certain number of persons had been garrotted annually in London during the past 8 years. We decline to state the number on which we alighted. Not intending, in this essay, to work on statistical principles, we will not subject ourselves to the annoyance of having our statistics questioned

St Pauls Magazine (edited by Trollope) January 1868