More attention should be paid to, and more use should
be made of, the journals of the various Societies that are doing such genuine though unostentatious labour in our midst. These journals, published monthly or quarterly as the case may be, are storehouses of accurate information. A very high place among them must be given to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. The latest number of this quarterly contains, in addition to other interesting matter, a most elaborate paper—and one well worth studying by certain economical enthusiasts—by Mr. R. H. Inglis Palgrave, on "Progressive Taxation as Levied in the Three Swiss Cantons of Basel-Stadt, de Vaud, and Uri ;" and one of Mr. Charles Booth's admirable essays on London working-class statistics, entitled " Condition and Occupations of the People of East London and Hackney in 1887." We are glad to see, from what Mr. Booth said at the conclusion of the discussion in the Society on his paper, that a book will probably be published in the end of the year dealing with the general question raised at the meeting, of which he will be editor.
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