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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.
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N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1891 net $1
It is essentially a popular treatise full of much useful information.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1889 $1.25
I have attempted in these pages to make some suggestions of a practical character, upon a subject whose intricacies can only be appreciated by one who has attempted their solution.
Bost., D. Lothrop, 1885 $1.50
A book for young people explaining the constitution and government of the United States.
Chic, Kerr & Co., 1896 $2
For the past fifteen years, Mr. Del Mar has given practically his whole time to original research in the great libraries and coin collections of Europe on the subject of the history of money and finance.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1896 $1
This essay is not exhaustive. The main lines of practical reforms are indicated and suggestions made.
Dodge, M. A. (Gail Hamilton, pseud.) Our common school system. 
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1880 $1.50
The author has made many good points; in discovering the folly of the communist cry that would level the teacher to the wages of the coal heaver; in the inherent capability of American youth to excel even with poor schools, etc.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1895 $1
A study in crime, pauperism, disease and heredity; also a further study of criminals.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1897 $1.25
Author is professor of political economy in Harvard university.
N. Y., Macmillan & Co., 1895 $1.50
This volume gives a description of the different elements in the labor movement with a brief outline of their most distinctive features.