Essays on Taxation and Reconstruction. By Diversity"
(William B. Scott). New York: C. B. Richardson.

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III.-The Congregate System of Juvenile Reformation....

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Read before the Reform School Convention, at Boston, June
6, 1866.

IV.-Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment. By Blanchard Fosgate, M. D.; Au-
burn, New York.

V.-What is Free Trade? (Fourth Paper.)......
VI.-Uncrystalline Structure of our Banking System.....
VII.-Eadie's Financial Economy.....

Financial Economy; being an Inquiry into the Present State
of the Monetary Science. Volume 1, Natural History of
Money. By John Eadie, A. M. New York: Hosford &
Ketchum, Stationers and Printers.

VIII.-Editor's Table......

IX.-Current Publications ....

X.-Sociological Record...

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HERBERT SPENCER.

To the generality of readers, the life of a thinker and student of the present century offers but few points of interest. The comparative barbarism in which the masses, the world over, are still to be found, disqualifies them from sympathizing with the peculiar sufferings and uncrowned triumphs of one who devotes himself to the task of elaborating for them forms of thought and lines of policy which subsequent generations will begin but dimly to understand. The nature of the struggle between genius and the powerful class interests to which it stands opposed partakes nothing of what is vulgarly termed heroic, and therefore fails to attract the attention of the multitude.

"They smother me with silence," cries a Bastiat, when he vainly tries to make headway against French conservatism. The tactics pursued against the thinkers of the middle ages were far different. The pains which men of thought were called upon to