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The purpose of this editorial preface is not to praise the present work by Mr. Frank B. Williams. If, as I believe, it is pace-setting and path-breaking, it needs no words of mine to assign it its proper place. "Good wine needs no bush." My purpose is rather to explain the position that this book occupies with respect to related books also published, or to be published, under the auspices of the Institute for Research in Land Economics.

As the idea of Land Economics is a new one, the very phrase itself having come into use only within a few years, I venture to give definitions of Land Economics and Land Policies, with a few words of explanation:—

Books have been published on many of the topics which fall within the scope of Land Economics, but they have appeared to lack close relationship with one another. This concept of Land Economics places these works in their proper