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 232 supply that scientific training which is likely in the future to become essential as a qualification for the civil service, municipal employment, journalism or public work.

While much attention will be given to economic and political theory, the special aim of the school will be, from the first, the study and investigation of the concrete facts of industrial life and the actual working of economic and political relations as they exist or have existed, in the United Kingdom and in foreign countries. With this object in view the school will provide scientific training in methods of investigation and research, and will afford facilities to British and foreign students to undertake special studies of industrial life and original work in economics and political science. The work of the school will take the following forms: (1) Public lectures, and classes in connection with them, on the following subjects: Economics (including Economic Theory and Economic History), Statistics, Commerce, Commercial Geography, Commercial History, Commercial and Industrial Law, Banking and Currency, Finance and Taxation, and Political Science.

(2) Special classes, arranged as a three years' course of study, concluding with a research course.

(3) The promotion, by means of scholarships or otherwise of original research.

(4) The publication of books containing the results of researches in economic and political subjects conducted by the teachers of the school or under their direction.

(5) The collection of a library for the use of the students of the school, consisting of books, reports and documents illustrative of economic and political history and theory.

(6) The organization of an "information department" to assist British students and foreigners visiting England for the purpose of investigation.

It is not proposed to prepare students especially for any examination, but the lectures and classes already arranged will be found useful to candidates for the following public examinations among others, viz.. Civil Service (Class 1 and Indian), Council of Legal Education, Institute of Bankers, Institute of Actuaries, London University (Mental and Moral Science), London Chamber of Commerce (Commercial Education).

The School of Sociology of Hartford, Conn., having successfully completed its first curriculum, enters upon the work of its second year October 5, 1895. This institution offers a three years' course in