RECENT PERIODICALS AND NEW BOOKS The Ecor?omic Review. January 1891. The Questio,? of Pop,clarion. TOS, M.A. By the Rev. and Hon. ARTHUR LYTTEL- The practical importance of Malthus arose solely from his clear demonstration that encouragement to population is useless and injurious. But the problem of our own day is not ' Should population be artificially encouraged ?'; but ' Should it be artificially repressed ?' Replying in the negative to this question, Mr. Lyttelton combats the dogma of the Malthusians that 'population has a constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence.' Quoting Mr. Giffen, Pro- fessor Geffcken, and Dr. Longstaff, he shows that the wealth of the chief European countries has advanced more rapidly than their popu- lation. The unfavourable relation between population and subsistence is due, when it exists, to imperfect social arrangements. To hamper ourselves with devices for warding off a danger indefinitely distant is ' the Quixotry of Pessimism.' Rodbert?s-Jagetzow and Scientific Socialism. LAVELEYE. By Professor ]?MILE DE Interprets and criticizes the founder of the so-called scientific Socialism. Social Conditions in a New England. B?mY, D.D. By the Right Rev. ALFRED A large measure of State Socialism and great prosperity are shown to coexist in New South Wales. The Another 'plea for liberti ' The American Copyright Bill. Joining of Issues. By T. MACKAY. against Socialism. By C. J. LONGMAN, M.A. A careful estimate of advantages and drawbacks. Frederick Denison Maurice as Christian Socialist. By His Honour Judge HU(?HES, Q.C. Gross's Gild Merchant. By the Rev. W. CU?N?N(?HAM, D.D. Dr. Cunningham, while extolling the service which the author has rendered by collecting such a mass of valuable materials, compla!ns that Dr. Gross has kept himself too strictly to his data; and by refusing
