ABSTRACT
There are 16, 838 pages in the first twenty-five volumes of the Economic Journal. About 40 per cent of this total (6, 994) is devoted to what the index to the Journal published by the Royal Economic Society calls Original Articles. There are Notes and Memoranda on 3, 608 pages. The reviews of 1, 804 books take about 3, 840 pages. The rest contains notes on current topics, notices of recent periodicals, lists of books received for reviewing, and obituary notes on the economists who died during the period. On the other hand the portion allocated to Notes and Memoranda continues to fall. The Economic Journal has not only been an engine of enquiry but also an engine of reform. The Original Articles in the Journal are, more often than not, in the nature of essays in applied economics. They are the non-theoretical half of what Marshallian or the neo-classical economists had to offer to their generation.
