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but it is for the breach of duty to his family, or creditors, 
not for the extravagance. If the resources which ought 
to have been devoted to them, had been diverted from them 
by the most prudent investment, the moral culpability 
would have been the same.” 
2. “No person ought to be punished simply for being 
drunk.” 
3. “The class of dealers in strong drinks, though in- 
terested in their abuse, are indispensably required for the 
sake of their legitimate use.” 
Our restricted limits will only allow us to make one 
single remark on No. 3. The author in his very severe 
strictures on this proposition develops his character as a 
most extreme tee-totaler. He is not only a deadly denun- 
ciator of intemperance (which is all very well), but he is 
actually a virulent stigmatiser of temperance and modera- 
tion. Now,although we abominate dissipation and drunken- 
ness, we candidly confess that we indulge (both from 
constitutional proclivities and by intellectual conviction) in 
the moderate absorption of exhilarating fluids, and, there- 
fore, we cannot by any means sympathise in our author's 
reveries on the evils of moderate drinking. 
With this single exception, we cordially commend the 
book as a valuable contribution to political science. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor ALEXANDER D, BACHE, Superintendent of the 
United States Coast Survey from 1843 to the time of his 
death, died at Newport, Rhode Island, U.S., on the 17th 
ult. He was a great-grandson of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, 
and was an able military engineer. His organisation of 
the United States Coast Survey was the great work of his 
life, and has made his name known throughout Europe. 
The American Army and Navy Fournal says of him: “ His 
efforts were never properly supported by Congress, but 
they were always so untiring, so true in their scientific pur- 
pose, so unselfish, and so able, that they could not fail to 
be successful in giving dignity and usefulness to the Coast 
Survey, and in extending and perpetuating his name as a 
man of science.” | : 
