The announcement in another column that Mr. Taussig will give four lectures covering all the main points in the history of our tariff legislation cannot fail to excite general interest. A question of such national importance, which the doings and report of the late tariff commission have brought so prominently before the country, claims the careful attention of all who are interested in the policy of our government, and these lectures, covering the past and present policy of the country in regard to tariff, will furnish an easy means of getting a good general idea of the subject. The announcement of these lectures calls forth the question whether it would not be well to have every year a course of lectures on the practical questions of the day. Our courses in Political Economy can hardly be said to cover these subjects, though they give a preliminary training indispensable for gaining thorough insight into any economical question. Moreover, the work of looking up these questions is so great, inasmuch as so many sources have to be consulted, that only those who make a specialty of such subjects can afford to give them the necessary time. Such a course of lectures, giving a close idea of the conflicting views, would furnish a groundwork on which many could form clearly defined opinions who, without such help, might drift as circumstances determined into narrow and prejudiced views.