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Presents letters to the editors in response to the articles published in previous issues of the journal. Views on an article on equitable taxation in the United States; Article by Robert Bruère entitled "Copper Camp Patriotism," which focused on labor troubles.

Focuses on the emergence of utopia. Emphasis on the definite conception of life by communities; Willingness of utopians to cooperate; Freedom of each member to regulate its domestic affairs; Efforts to extinguish slavery and polygamy; Use of self-realization as a means of attaining the ideal and advancing civilization; Reflection on mutual cooperation in several social experiments.

Discusses findings of a study of the methods of organizing troops in the North during the Civil War and the results of conscription in the South. Objectives of systems used in the Civil War: volunteering, draft and conscription; State governments' volunteering program; Wrangling over exemptions from conscription in the South; Disadvantages of volunteering; Effects of the absence of conscription law.

This article critically appraises the book " Frémont,' by Allan Nevins. This is certainly a story which gains in human interest from being truthfully and completely told. In many respects it is a tragic story. Constantly failure followed success. Three applauded explorations were followed by two that failed. Business success that seemed to bring the wealth of the Indies dwindled into real poverty, and lasting poverty. Military fame and power like that of a Persian satrap. tumbled into sordid backbiting and ineffective stalemate. A superb introduction to political life went the way of the other careers. In each and all "Frémont" reaches a summit quickly and with little difficulty, and descends by a more gradual slope to a valley which is a desert.