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All communications relating to articles, book reviews, exchanges and editorial work in general should be addressed to PROF. JOHN C. SCHWAB, New Haven, Conn, Copyright, 1897, by The Yale Publishing Company, New Haven, Conn. THE YALE REVIEW. NOVEMBER, 1897. COMMENT. Henry George; Ethics of Arctic Exploration; The Strike of the English Engineers. THE dramatic death of Henry George, in the very climax ΤΗ of the New York municipal elections, is in some respects a most fitting close to the life of a man who moved his fellow-men profoundly, yet failed to accomplish much of the work which he had planned for himself and for them. Progress and Poverty was a great book. No other American work on economic subjects has had so wide an audience; no scientific work on these subjects—for it is hardly necessary to say that books like those of Bellamy belong to a totally different class has even momentarily approached it in popular interest. It is so long since most of us have read Progress and Poverty that it may be worth while to recall a little in detail the character of its contents. It consisted of the parts: 1. An attack on certain of the received doctrines of orthodox political economy, notably the wage-fund theory and the Malthusian theory. 2. A treatment of the subject of distribution, which George believed to be at once more coherent and more fruitful than that which had been given in previous books. 3. An indictment of private land tenure, which charged this system with nearly all the economic evils under which we now suffer, followed by the promise of an economic millennium if we had the resolution to tax private land values out of existence. The first, or purely critical, part of the book was, on the whole, scientific and sound. Many of George's comments on |