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 difference, that the power of earning is, in the case of the business man, and is not in the case of the scientist, the test of success. By observations thus weighty and well-balanced the compact mass of which defies abridnent the author exemplifies that ' abandonment of dogma,' that 'development of analysis,' which at the commencement of his address he described as characteristic of the modern era, and at the conclusion inculcates, in different words, with equal force.

MISCELLANEA.

I. The Element of Chance in Competitive Examinatio,s. By FESSOR F. Y. EDGEWORTH, M.A., D.C.L.

In this paper, the sequel of one which appeaxed in the September number of the Journal, it is shown that the discrepancies between different examiners in their estimates of the same work present a certain regularity, and admit of being approxim. ately predicted, the nature and conditions of any examination being gven.

II. Population of the United States, of States and Territories, 1890.

A Reprint of the Washinoon Census Bulletin. No. 12.

III..Sih, er and Gold Coinage of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, &c. By JOHN HENRY NORMAN.

The author introduces his novel table of coinage by some general observations on money.

IV. Index Nuers.

A reprint of the deliberations, not the conclusion, of the Committee appointed by the British Association to consider the subject. The conflicting considerations sprinkled over this paper are reduced to harmony 'and sequence in the Report drawn up by Mr. Giffen, which will be found in the Report of the British Association for 1890.

V.—Note on the Imperial Census of India of 1891. By F. J. 1VIOUAT, M.D., F.R.C.S.

Attention may be called to the statistics collected by Dr. Mouat relating to the castes and classes of the criminal population of Lowqr Bengal, printed in his report on prisons for 1869.

VI. Notes on Economical and Statistical I4rks.

Nineteenth Century. 1891.

January.

Labour Colonies in Germany. By the EARL OF MEATH.

Describes in some detail the system established by Pastor von Bodelschwing and others.

The Jew as a Workman. By DAVID T. SCHLOSS.

Purports to be'a faithful portrait of the Jewish workman, as he is to be found in London and in other of 'our great cities.' fhe industrial virtues of the Jews, disputing their alleged willingness to work too long hours, their ineapaeity 'to eombine,:and other allegations.