Professor MacVane's New Book.

Professor MacVane's Political Economy, which will soon appear and of which some of the proof sheets have been distributed to members of Political Economy courses, will be a handy volume of about three hundred and fifty pages. It is printed in clear type with convenient numbering of paragraphs and suitable sub headings for each one. At the end of each chapter there are a number of questions and tests on the subject matter under discussion, and at the end of the book there is an appendix giving a summary of the tariff schedule of the United States. Professor MacVane's system, as is proper in a book of such moderate size, is to state all laws and arguments clearly and with justice to each side without intimation of the author's private opinion. For in stance, in the chapter on Free Trade, the principles are enumerated, after which follows a simple statement of the arguments brought up by the Protectionists in favor of the present tariff system in favor of the present tariff system in the United States. This is followed in turn by as clear and concise a statement of what the Free Traders have to say on their side. The student, however, is left to make up his own mind.