The political economy department of the college deserves much praise for the care and work displayed in the first number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The magazine appears in an attractive form, the type and the size of the pages making the labor of reading as small as possible. All the articles are written with a grasp which betokens a complete understanding of the questions involved, while also they discuss problems that are more interesting to the unprofessional reader than are most of those in the journals of a similar class. For in these latter technical points and little matters that are only of interest to the sincere student of political science become the subject matter of a whole number. We are glad to find that the Harvard journal is not to enter in competition on the same field, but striking out into new paths we feel that its success will be greater in proportion as its popularity is extended to those who are as yet uninitiated into the complicated mysteries of the theoretic political science.