LIVING, as we do, in a society almost completely industrialized, it is hard for any but. the professional historian to recreate for himself the very different Britain of the eve of the Industrial Revolution. In this new series of talks Mr. G. D. H. Cole, the economic historian and biographer of Cobbett, will describe how modern Britain came to be and out of what elements our present civilization was made. Basing his series largely on the evidence of contemporary writers (such representative figures as Burke, Cobbett, and Paine), he will start this evening by describing the England of that father of journalism, Daniel Defoe. This England was, as he will show, already to some extent a thriving industrial and commercial country, the Bank of England and the East India Company were flourishing, and London was actually larger, in proportion to the total population, than it is today.