Excerpt from Science, Vol. 10: An Illustrated Journal; July December, 1887 The most casual newspaper-reader and observer of legislation must have had his attention attracted to a growing tendency in our legislation toward the regulation of private and personal con cerns. We are aware, of course, that the term private and per sonal concerns' may be said to be more or less indefinite but it is nevertheless true, that, as used by the majority of intelligent people, its content is, in a general way, understood and agreed to. It is in this generally accepted sense that we use it here. A few weeks ago we editorially called the attention of the readers of Science to an article in which Dr. Albert Shaw of Minneapolis illustrated the tendency of which we speak, from recent legislation ih_ Minnesota. Dr. Shaw gave a digest or summary of the session laws of 1885 in his State, and pointed out not only the relatively large number of laws that may be put under the head of 'state interference, ' but the great variety of subjects with which they attempted to deal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.