Among important events in the recent history of Economic literature should be noted the appearance last January of the Ecoaomic Review. Published 'for the Oxford University Branch of the Christian Social Union,' this quarterly is 'primarily intended for the study of duty in relation to social life.' The first number, of which we have given the headings on another page (p. 230), amply fulfils the announced intention of 'dealing with what may be called Economic Morals from the point of view of Christian teaching.' The relation of this programme to the larger scope of the Economic Journal is aptly indicated by Prof. Marshall in the speech made by him at the foundation of the British Economic Association. The presence on that occasion and friendly words of Mr. L. R. Phelps, the editor of the Economic Review, augured well for the cordial relations between the two periodicals. Mr. Phelps and several of his coadjutors have not only become members of the British Economic Association, but also have undertaken to contribute to the pages of its Journal. One of them, Dr. Cunningham, is a contributor to the first number both of the Economic Review and the Economic Journal.
Mr. F. Y. Edgeworth has been appointed to the Professorship of Political Economy at Oxford, vacated by the death of Mr. Thorold Rogers last year. Mr. Edgeworth has resigned the Tooke Professorship of Political Economy at King's College which he had held since last summer; when it was resigned by Mr. Thorold Rogers.
OBITUARY.
Died the 12th December, 1890, at Heidelberg, aged thirty-seven years, Antoine Beaujon, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Statistical Institute at Amsterdam. Under his direction has been issued L'Annuaire Statistique du Royaume des Pays Bas, containing much valuable statistical data relating to the kingdom of Holland. He was the author of numerous publications, of which may be mentioned one relating to Free Trade and Protectionism (Handel en Handelspolitiek, 1888), another to the Dutch fisheries. Among his articles in periodicals should be noticed one which appeared in the Revue d'Economie Politique, January 1890, 'Apropos de la théorie du prix;' containing a not very damaging criticism of the mathematical theory of political economy, and some interesting remarks on certain Ricardian theories. His paper on 'Index Numbers' in the Bulletin for 1887 of the Institut International de Statistique is also deserving of particular attention.
