8 LHE AMERICAN SCIENCE SERIES, 
POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Francis A. WALKER, President 
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Advanced Course. 8vo. 537 pp. 
“The peculiar merit of this book is its vealzty. The reader is 
brought to see the application of the laws of political economy 
to real facts. He learns the extent to which those laws hold 
good, and the manner in which they are applied. The subject 
is divided, as usual, into the three great branches of production, 
exchange, and distribution. An interesting and suggestive 
book on consumption is added, which serves to bring in con- 
veniently the principles of population. The last part of the 
volume is given to the consideration of various practical appli- 
cations of economic principles to such questions as those of 
Banking, Codperation, Trades’ unions, Strikes, Bimetallism, and 
Protection.” — The Boston Advertiser. 
Briefer Course. I2mo. 402 pp. 
The demand for a briefer manual by the same author for the 
use of schools in which only a short time can be given to the 
subject has led to the publication of the present volume. The 
work of abridgment has been effected mainly through excision, 
although some structural changes have been made, notably in 
the parts relating to distribution and consumption. 
From RICHARD T. ELy, Professor in the Fohns Hopkins University: 
—‘‘Let one who proposes to teach political economy master, first of 
all, F. A. Walker’s Political Economy.” 
From the CHRISTIAN UNnron:—‘‘ Professor Walker is not only an 
authority in his department, but he is an admirable teacher. His de- 
finitions are remarkably clear; and though he throws out of his cal- 
culations all other than merely economic considerations, he does so 
avowedly, and continuedly reminds the student that other considera- 
tions do exist—a respect for ethics not always paid by preceding 
writers in the same field. He is also more modern, and shows a 
more lively appreciation of the living facts of to-day, than most 
writers of text-books on the subject ” 
From THE ACADEMY, London :—‘‘ With the merits of brevity and 
clearness, it combines those of forcible statement and original 
thought. In a condensed, yet readable shape, it presents all the 
chief doctrines hitherto ascertained in political economy; and sum- 
marizes with great fairness the arguments on both sides, on those 
facts which are matters of debate rather than doctrine.” 
HENRY HOLT a (CO., PUBLISHERS shia 
