BY JOHN STUART MILL SELECTED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCES BY J. W. M. GIBBS EDITOR OF " THE WORKS OF GOLDSMITH," ETC. LONDON Parking 4-17-50 70609 04-27-50EW EDITOR'S PREFACE. HE contents of this volume have been selected THE from Mill's numerous contributions to the periodical press between the year 1829, when he was beginning to write for the public, and the year 1844, when he published his first book. This book, entitled "Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy," consisted of five articles, the last of which had appeared previously in the "Westminster Review' (in 1831), the other four having been written, but not published, at earlier dates. The volume is now very scarce, and as a good deal of biographical interest attaches to these early expressions of his views on his favourite science, they have been included bodily in the present selection. There are other essays, contributed first to periodicals, which Mill reprinted, with slight alterations, in the four volumes, entitled "Dissertations and Discussions, Political, Philosophical, and Historical." These volumes are also out of print; but the few essays from them which will be found here have been reprinted from the original versions which appeared in the London and Westminster Reviews, such passages as Mill omitted in his reprint being placed within brackets. |