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deal of thought, attention, and study for several years past. I have found, by a personal examination and comparison of nearly all the college catalogues and similar publications in the United States, that there is not, in fact, so much time and attention devoted to the Science of Government - or Politics - in our American colleges at present, as there was forty (40) years ago. Other subjects of study have gradually displaced them. In quite a number of colleges there is some little instruction upon U. S. constitutional law; but it is generally confined to a short course of lecture to the senior class, - seldom extending even through a single term. Not nearly so much time is devoted to this grand subject as is given to botany, or to mineralogy, and the like. In a few colleges, especially Eastern ones, there is some instruction in Political Economy; but the instruction is almost exclusively given in accordance with the extreme, radical free lunch theory - the school of Bastiot in France, and of Cobeteau, John Stuart ills, etc., in England. In no college or university of the country is this grand, and for our young men most important Science of Politics put upon anything like an equality