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able, '. their reading in connection with the present volume will serve to enlighten the student of individual liberty. Proudhon was the greatest figure of the. middle period of the nineteenth century.· He' was .. the first thinker .to .•.•• £ully apply the. principle of liberty directly. to all economic. co,nd~tions. .His ~'General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century" (Freedom Press, 127 OS$ulston Street, Lond6n, N. W. 1, England) describes the changes impending and the direction they must take. He predicted the growing power of the financial capitalist, ahdhistoryhas abundantly borne.him out. His influence in France has lasted to this day. "What IsProperty?"-one of his greatest works and thenrst translated into English--also may be had' from ,tile Freedom Press. , John Stuart Mill was one of the first to see c1earlythe real meaning of Uberty. His essay, "On Liberty," although first published over sixty>-:ftve years ago, is' so fundamental in its substance that it is qui~eapplicable t() present conditions. Moreover, he discussed denials of liberty in the' United States as well 'as in England. For a long time out of print, ·this,·essay is i fortunately now' to be had in the Big Blue Book series of the Haldeman Julius. Company, Girard, Kansas.

William B. Greene,' working independently in America, reached the same conclusions as. Proudhon in France. In his jpamphlet on UMutualBanking" (published by Henl'Y Gohen~426 California Building, Los Angeles, Cal ifornia) he attacks, first, the state banks of his day. The intricate proc esses of exchange and the part played by money and' crec!it.are described with such simplicity. and yet so correctly that his arguments have not suffered by the lapse of, time and are as fully pertinent today as they were when writ;ten. Be cle~rly points· the way to the abolition of interest. A brief· exposition of some. of Proudhon's ideas, brought down to date and linked up with present conditions, is embodied in ctThe Economics of Liberty," by John Beyerly Robinson (supplied by Freedom Pres~, 127 Ossulston Street, London, N. W. 1). With the exception of some' digres sions into irrelevancies,iit is thought-provoking a.nd valuable.

Individualist. Anarchism, especially as expounded by Tucker, is funda mentally egoistie, which makes. Max Stirner's masterpiece, ctThe Ego a.nd His Own" ,(dso to be: had from Freedol1l Press), a book that should be read in connection with any. e~position of individual liberty, since it con tains tQ.eessence of the egoistic philo~ophy. Ahot!her book on the same subjec1:,.more, moder.. and less voluminous, but un~ortunately not now to 289 BIBLIOGRAPHY be had except in a few public libraries, is James L. Walker's uThe Philos ophy of Egoism." Walker, under the pen name of T ak Kak, was a frequent editorial contributor to Liberty. Henry D. Thoreau, though not properly labeled an anarchist, was cer tainly a free spirit, and his essay,· UOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience," will be found to contain many inspiring thoughts for the person who is seeking to understand .individual liberty. His uWalden," to a certain extent, may be similarly described.

Josiah Warren's ttTrue Civilization" and Stephen Pearl Andrews' develop ment of the· same theme in ttThe Science of Society»' would, were both books not out of print, provide profitable reading for those interested in the ideas set forth in this volume. ttlnsteadof a Book" was dedicated to Warren, and Tucker frequently referred to him as his umaster." Lysander Spooner was one of the most prolific of writers on the subject of liberty and its application to the everyday problems of life, but he too suffers from being wholly out of print. One of his greatest works, ttTrial by Jury," was edited and abridged by Victor Yarros and published under the title of ttFree Political Institutions," but this too can no longer be had from booksellers. If it can be borrowed or found on second-hand book counters, it should be studied. ttJosiah Warren," by William Bailie (Small, Maynard Be Company, Boston), is a biography which deals sympathetically and understandingly with Warren's ideas, and, aside from Tucker's writings, is the best exposi tion of those ideas ·now in print.

Francis D. Tandy's ttVoluntary Socialism" (alas! also out of print) is designed to show how individual liberty can be applied to conditions as they exist today. It is valuable. On the financial question Hugo Bilgram's ttThe Cause of Business De pressions" (Lippincott, Philadelphia) is of importance, especially as ex ploding the fallacy of the volume theory of money and as showing that interest has no reason for being. As giving a detailed history of the evolution of industry and banking in Great Britain, Charles P. Isaacs' ttthe Menace of the Money Powee' (Jonathan Cape, 11 Gower Street, London) is excellent. It shows how Scotland formerly prospered under a comparatively free system of banking.