Harvard Economic Studies Published

The first two volumes of the Harvard Economic Studies, published under the direction of the Department of Economics, have recently appeared. The purpose of this new series is to place before the public the results of special investigations carried on from time to time by advanced students and instructors in the Department of Economics. Only such monographs are to be published as embody results of permanent value.

Volume one of the Studies is "The English Patents of Monopoly," by W. H. Price '02, instructor in Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin, who formerly held the position of Henry Lee Memorial Fellow in the University. This treatise was awarded the David A. Wells Prize for the year 1905-06 and is now published in book form from the income of the David A. Wells Fund.

The second volume is "The Lodging House Question in Boston," by A. B. Wolfe '02. This work is the result of two years of special investigation during the time that Mr. Wolfe held the South End Fellowship. It presents the most complete description ever published of a typical lodging-house district in the city which has a larger percentage of lodging-house population than any other city in the world.