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 514 THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL torious kind, if of more limited range, are Kruse's History of the Currency in Cologne down to the Year 1386  (1888), Kostanecki's Public Credit in the Middle Ages 2 (1889), Schoenlank's A History of the Journeyme of Old Nuremberg, s published in Conrad's Jahrbiicher, 1889, and Niibling's The Cotton Industry in Ulm in tile Middle Ages  (1890), an inquiry of special merit from the great mass of data collected. The two works, The Politics of tile Municipal Corn-trade in Germany during tile Fifteenth., Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries  (1889), by Naud, and Researches i, tile History of Commerce in Hamburg  (1889), by Baasch, must be classed apart. Finally I should mention Bruder's Studies in tile Financial Policy of Duke Rudolph IV. of Asta.  This Duke Rudolph had instituted, as early as the year 1360, a general system of commuting rent and tithes, at first for Vienna and then for most of the provincial towns. Mention too should be made of the appearance a few months ago of Inama-Sternegg's long- expected book, The Economic History of Germany from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century s (1891). Hatscheck in The Manufactory on the Tabor in Vienna 9 (1886) carries us back to the mercantilism of the seventeenth century, and describes the government institute designed by Becher to combine the functions of an industrial and educational workshop. The most important work on this period is that by Schmoller entitled Studies iu the Ecowmic _Policy of Frederick the Great o (Schmoller's Jahrbuch, 1884, &c.). Here we have the advantage of seeing the economic policy of the great king clearly set forth, impartially appreciated, and defended against the criticisms of Liberals, and besides this an explanation of how so-called mer- cantilism is connected with the economic policy of the towns and the general policy of an absolute monarchy. The book is to a certain extent supplemented by Knapp's very lucid and impartial work entitled The Emancipation of tile Peasant and tile Origin of the Agricultural Labourer in tile Older Parts of Prussia u (1887). Klilnische Geldgeschichte bis 1386. Der 6ffentliche Credit im Mittelalter. Zur Geschichte altnilrnbergischen Gesellenwcsens. Ulm's Baumwollweberei im Mittelalter. Deutsche stiidtische Getreidehandelspolit ik vom 15-17 Jahrhnndert. Forschunger zr lumburgischen Handelsgeschich te. Studien llber die Finanzpolitik Herzog Rudolf It: yon Oesterreich. Deutsche Wirtshaftsgeschichte yore 10-12 Jahrhundert. Das Manufacturhaus auf dem Tabor in Stiutier tiber dix, Irtschaftspolitik Friedrich des Grosso. Die Bawrnbefreinn9 und der Ursprung der Landarbeiter i den ilteren Teiten Preussens.