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 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