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the Study of history, attrdcleu
information attention soon after
it's delivery at Cambridge and
subsequent publication in this
country by the Macmillan Company,
New York, has undertaken to edit for
the Cambridge University Press COM
prehensive history of modern times un-
der a general title.
The Cambridge Modern History will
appear in twelve volumes of about seven
hundred pages each, and will cover the
period from the end of the Middle Ages
to the present day. 1t is expected that
the first volume. dealing with the Rem
aissance, will be published in from two
to three years hence. to be followed by
two volumes in each succeeding year. In
order that each part may be the work
of nan who has already made the
period covered an object of special study
the best historians in England and
America will be invited to contribute.
A few names from the authors list are
as follows: James Bryce, Professor
Bury, DR. Cunning ham, Principal Fair
bairn, Professor Flint, Frederick Har-
rison, r. H. Hutton. Professor Jebb,
Mr.. Lecky, Sidney Roe, John Morley.
Mr.. Oman, E. J. Payne. Sir F. Pollock,
Professor Prothero DR.. Sidgwick and
Viscount Wolseley
In his work issued by the American
Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence (Philadelphia) under the caption
Values, Positive and Relative" Profess
sor w. G. L. Taylor, of the University of
/ Nal cly hac do
tribution to the current discussion of
economic theory The monograph is
issued as publcat ton No. 19l, of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science. In monern economies,
value is like BanQuo's ghost that VIII
not be doWned, and one might marvel
that with so much as has been written
on this subject, there was anything more
to be said. We are disposed to believe,
however that Professor Taylor has op-
ened a new and valuable line of discus
sion. by contrasting in a clever fashion
the views Of older and newer economists
on this subject. Those who delight III
metaphysical subtleties will find pleas
ure in this essay. Those who look for
some practical gain from enocomic
speculation will find rays of hope in this
discussion. He has shown better than
his predecessors the relation between
speculation and experience.
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