EVERYBODY knows that a small number of men own the bulk of the land in Great Britain, but there is always something startling about the figures. The total area of England and Wales (excluding London) is 37,243,859 acres, or about that of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware combined. One man owns 186,397 acres, or one-two-hundredths of the whole; a second, 132,996 acres; and a third, 102,785 acres; 66 persons own 1,917,076 acres, equal to Delaware and the three lower counties of New Jersey; 280 own 5,425,764 acres, a tract considerably larger than New Jersey; 874 own 9,267,031 acres, at which rate 1,000 persons would own a full third of New York State. A body of men, which does not exceed 4,500, owns more than one-half of all England and Wales. In Scotland, the situation is still worse. The area of that country is 18,946,694 acres, which is a little more than that of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont together. One man owns 1,326,000 acres, which is as though a single individual owned a tract as large as Rhode Island and all of Massachusetts from Fall River to the end of Cape Cod; two others own 431,000 and 424,000 acres respectively, or between them more than enough to make another Rhode Island; 24 men own 4,931,884 acres, which falls but little short of the area of Massachusetts; 12 persons own nearly one-quarter of Scotland; 70 persons own about one-half of it, and nine-tenths of the whole country belongs to fewer than 1,700 persons. Ireland contains 20,195,678 acres of land, which makes it not quite the size of Maine. One person owns 170,119 acres; 292 hold about one-third of the island; 744 hold about one-half of all the land. Two-thirds of England and Wales is held by only 10,207 persons; two-thirds of Ireland, by 1,052; and two-thirds of Scotland, by but 330.—N. Y. Evening Post.