er ever wrote, but
has aimed, so far as possible, to avoid repetitions of thought ... there
are some discussions of the national finances in the period following
the Civil War, which have a timely as well as historical interest at the
present time.... To improve the census was General Walker's work for
many years, and his experience cannot fail to be of interest to the
present generation.... Economics in the hands of this master was no
dismal science, because of his broad sympathies, his healthy
conservative optimism, his belief in the efficacy of effort; and, in a
more superficial sense, because of his saving sense of humor and his
happy way of putting things, ... he was the fortunate possessor of a
very pleasing literary style, ... clear and interesting to the general
reader, as well as instructive to the careful student."

_The Outlook_: "This book makes accessible for students the
miscellaneous work of one of America's greatest political economists....
Dr. Dewey has performed his critical work with the reverence of a
disciple, and reprinted in full all the more important contributions."

_Political Science Quarterly_: "The collection embraces between fifty
and sixty articles, all of them characterized by the forceful reasoning
and balanced judgment of the gifted author."

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FRANCIS A. WALKER

_President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology_

DISCUSSIONS IN EDUCATION

Edited by JAMES PHINNEY MUNROE. 8vo. $3.00, _net_.

The author had hoped himself to collect these papers in a volume. They
are grouped under _Technological Education, Manual Education, The
Teaching of Arithmetic and College Problems_ (including _College
Athletics_). _A Valedictory_ appropriately closes the book.

_The Outlook_: "Space fails us here to transcribe some passages we had
marked as maxims for the times. So long as the reforms and improvements
in our educational methods which General Walker advocated, not without
some success, are but partially accomplished, will this volume of expert
testimony deserve to be close at hand to those with whom is the
responsibility of direction."

_The Dial_: "A fitting memorial to its author.... The breadth of his
experience, as well as the natural range of his mind, are here
reflected. The subjects dealt with are all live and practical....