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...last number of the Nation has a long but entertaing review of Professor Laughlin's recent work in Bimetallism. A short abstract of this review may be interesting to many. The writer begins by giving a brief sketch of the silver controversy, which really started in 1876, when the relative values of silver and gold began to change from the old standard of sixteen to one. The knowing ones, even at that time, saw that the alteration would probably be permanent, and that sooner or later the subject of Bimetallism would be an issue in our politics...
...Prof. Laughlin has just given a very valuable contribution to economic literature in the shape of an octavo volume on bimetallism...
...political economy has received from educators the attention which it deserves. It is due largely to the energy of one of our own instructors that the study of economics has come into prominence as an element in the panoply of a student. During the past two years Professor Laughlin has delivered lectures and written magazine articles on this subject, and the interest which they excited warranted him to publish the substance of his thought in permanent form, and the result is a little book, entitled "The Study of Political Economy," from the press of the Appletons...
...chapter on the "Disciplinary Power of Political Economy," Professor Laughlin has given a very clear and concise statement of the effect of this study upon the development of the mind. Exactness, clearness, and directness of statement are cultivated. The imagination, too, plays an important part. The logical powers are vigorously exercised, no loose thinking is tolerated. The next chapter on the "Relations of Political Economy to the Law, the Ministry, and Journalism," is very interesting reading. Every student who intends entering one of these professions should read the chapter carefully before deciding upon the studies of his college course...
...Prof. Laughlin may feel obliged to make Pol. Econ. I more select, unless better work is done by many of the students at present in the course...