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CONTENTS.

LEADING ARTICLES.

The Decrease of Consumption in New England.

S. W. Abbott

The Negro as a Peasant Farmer. Katharine Coman.

Census Statistics of Special Classes. John Koren

The Bread and Meat of the World. Yves Guyot.

Recent Railway Accidents in the United States. Car-

roll W. Doten

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Methods of Measuring the Concentration of Wealth.

M. O. Lorenz

Homicide in New Hampshire. Harry G. Nutt.

The Birth-rate in New Hampshire. Allyn A. Young. 263

Growth of the New York State Census. J. H. Middle-

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Results of the Practical Abolition of Capital Punish-
ment in Belgium. Maynard Shipley

Methods of Presenting Statistics of Wages. W. C.

Mitchell.

REVIEWS AND MISCELLANY.

Agriculture, Department of, Bureau of Statistics.
Austrian Census of Occupations. H. Fehlinger.
Austrian Industrial Census, 1902. H. Fehlinger.
Berlin, Family Budgets and Wages in. M. O. Lorenz .
Birth-rate, Decline in, and Mortality of Infants. F. S.

Crum

Bulletins of the Census Office.

Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture