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universality and the thoroughness of his historic method 

 were illustrated by his special liking for inquiries into the 

 economic and social developments of classical antiquity, 

 and their relation to the economic phenomena of modern 

 times. He was an industrious and voluminous publicist, 

 and the list of his works embraces, in addition to the 

 monumental work already referred, such subjects as " The 

 Life, Work, and Period of Thucydides," " The Economic 

 Opinions of Herodotus and Thucydides," " Colonies, 

 Colonial Policy, and Emigration," " Luxury," " The Rela- 

 tions between Economics and Jurisprudence," " German 

 Agriculture in Ancient Times," " The Economic Signi- 

 ficance of Machinery," " The Position of the Jews in 

 the Middle Ages considered from the Mercantile Point 

 of View," " The Currency Question and the German 

 Monetary Reform," " The Monarchical, Aristocratic, and 

 Democratic Principles Historically Considered," " The 

 History of German National Economics," " Socialism 

 and Collectivism," " English Economics in the 16th and 

 17th Centuries," " The Economic Opinions of Frederick 

 the Great," and " The Romantic School of Political 

 Economists," a list which is very far from exhausting the 

 catalogue of his writings, but is sufficiently suggestive of 

 the breadth and scientific thoroughness of his researches. 



F. J. F. 

 ARTHUR CAYLEY, by whose death the world has lost 

 one of the mathematicians whose fame is secure for all 

 time, was the son of Henry Cayley, a Russian merchant 

 living at St. Petersburg, but was born at Richmond, in 

 Surrey, on August 16, 1821, during a visit of his parents to 

 England. When Arthur Cayley was eight years of age, his 

 father retired from business, and returned to England. 

 Cayley left King's College School at the age of 17, and 

 went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was 

 Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman in 1842. For 



