No. ., OF Useful Books for


the People.
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PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECON


OM1, or the Laws Of the Formation


of National Wealth. Developed by


means Of the Christian Law of Gov


ernment; being the substance of a dis


course delivered to the Hand-Loom


Weayers Commission.


BY VIM. ATKINSON.


With an Introduction, Treating Of the
present state OF the Science of Political
Economy, and the Adaptation of its
Principles to the condition of our own
Country and the upholding of It's Pros
perity.


BY HORACE GREELEY.


The work of Mr.. Atkinson is one of
the most instructive and admirable that
has yet appeared on the important and
difficult subject Of Political Economy
difficult not so much in its essence or
in the nature of its laws as in the appl-
cation Of these laws to the dlssimilar.
complicated, varying circumstances of
different nations and periods. The laws
educed by Mr.. Atkinson are so Just, so
clear, so vital, and yet so strangely over
lOOhCu Dy AHOSC w llO uTTODdlO 10 tIlcf0-
selves the title of the Political Econo-
mists in our day, and who resolve all
Political Economic Science into doing
nothing--of whose universe Somnus is
God--and who elevate The maxim of
the counter, Buy where you can cheap
est to the summit Of attainabIe wisdom
and craftsmanship. In their eyes the
cheapest possible production-coin be-
ing the unerring standards the great
end Of human effort; and he who is out
stripped in the headIong race is doomed
to ruin and starvation by the law of en-
vious strife and depressing competition,
which they blasphemously represent as
fthe order Of Providence! These are
the views put forth by the Political
Economists enthroned in our COLLEGES
and Senates. as liberal and enlightened.
at least, these are the Inevitable re-
suits from those views. 1t was needed
that the spacions fa!acies put forth by
these teachers should be scrutinized and
confuted, aud this has been done in a
mastery manner by Mr.. Atkinson. AS
an elementary. on Political economy
as refulation of the doctrines of Free
Trade Notwithstanding equal to his
work has ever appeared on either side
Of the Atlantic. To the friends of Amer
ican Industry, therefore, and to all who
! regard the trade, the skill or experience