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the fundamental concepts of economics, on distribution, on the diverse branches of production, on transportation, on insurance, on population, on socialism, and on the history of economic doctrines. The second section, Finance, will embrace volumes on that science as a whole, on the principles of taxation, on banking, etc. The third section, Public and Administrative Law, will commence with a treatise on the general theory of the state, and another on the theory of administration, fol- lowed by works on education, on police, on poor laws, etc. The fourth and last section is devoted to Statistics. The books will not be published in any prearranged order, and while the series will systematically cover the whole field each volume is to be a complete treatment of the subject dealt with, and separately purchasable. To each of the volumes for whose preparation an array of German authorities, some of them as prominent in the civil service as in the world of science, has been secured a bibliography as complete as possible is to be annexed.
Thus the utility of this initial volume is considerably heightened by the addition of some twenty-five large pages of bibliography ; and I ought to note, in conclusion, that the book is a beautiful specimen of printing. "C- W. A. VEDITZ.
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