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comprehensive method within a narrow territory. On a state or national scale great financial resources are required ; but the study of a village, a ward, a district, may be done thoroughly well by a private student, and the results will be valuable to check or verify the results reached by the larger scheme. 1

C. R. HENDERSON. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

1 MELENDY, " Study of the Saloon in Chicago," in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, November, 1900, and in the present number, may illustrate this point.