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"Mr. John Rae has already won his spurs as a writer on socialism. The book on that subject which he has just published is the best of its kind, in English at least, that we have seen. Holding an intermediate position between the socialists and the Manchester School, Mr. Rae has just that amount of sympathy with the aims of the socialists which enables him to look at the problems involved from their point of view, and thus to meet their errors fully and directly while doing justice to them in some respects in which hitherto they have hardly received it."—Westminster Review.

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INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY. By ARTHUR LATHAM PERRY, Professor of History and Political Economy in Williams College. Revised edition. 12mo, $1.50.

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AN ADDITION TO THEODOR MOMMSEN'S HISTORY OF ROME.

THE PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. From Cæsar to Diocletian. By THEODOR MOMMSEN. Translated with the author's sanction and additions, by William P. Dickson D.D., LL.D. With ten maps, by Professor Kiepert. 2 vols., 8vo, $6.00.

Contents: The Northern Frontier of Italy—Spain—The Gallic Provinces—Roman Germany and the Free Germans—Britain—The Danubian Lands and the Wars on the Danube—Greek Europe—Asia Minor—The Euphrates Frontier and the Parthians—Syria and the Land of the Nabatæans—Judea and the Jews—Egypt—The African Provinces.

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