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The following five books and pamphlets 

 are issued by the Woman's Temperance Pub- 

 lication Association : The Year's Bright 

 Chain (price, 50 cents) consists of twelve 

 pages of quotations from the writings of 

 Frances E. Willard, alternating with full- 

 page pictures representing the months. 

 Each picture is accompanied by a couple of 

 stanzas of verse telling the wish the month 

 grants to a boy and to a girl. A finely en- 

 graved steel portrait of Miss Willard forms 

 the frontispiece. The artistic and mechani- 

 cal quality of the book can not fail to delight 

 her young admirers. Frances Raymond's 

 Investment, by Mrs. S. M. I. Henry (price, 50 

 cents), is the story of a woman's complaint 

 against the State for the loss, due to the 

 licensed saloon, of what her boy had cost 

 her. The Unanswered Prayer ; or, Why do 

 so many Children of the Church go to Ruin ? 

 also by Mrs. Henry (price, 50 cents) consists 

 of several chapters of counsel to mothers in 

 regard to saving their children from the 

 evils and dangers that beset them. Songs 

 of the Young Woman's Christian Temperance 

 Union, by Anna A. Gordon (price, 25 cents), 

 consists of ninety-five pages of words and 

 music, suitable for temperance meetings. 

 Crusader Programs (price, 25 cents) is a 

 collection of exercises, consisting of recita- 

 tions, dialogues, etc., interspersed with songs, 

 and designed for the Loyal Temperance 

 Legion, Sunday schools, etc., and adapted to 

 Arbor-day, Easter, Decoration-day, and other 

 occasions. 



A new review, called The Arena, has been 

 started in Boston, under the editorship of B. 

 0. Flower (The Arena Publishing Company, 

 $5 a year). The promise that it will be il a 

 field of combat " where the many social, 

 ethical, and political questions of the day 

 will be fought over, seems likely to be veri- 

 fied, for among the contributors to the first 

 two numbers are some of the most belligerent 

 writers for the press who are now in the 

 field. These are such as Robert G. Ingersoll, 

 who opens the first number with an article 

 on " God in the Constitution " ; Lawrence 

 Gronlund, who writes on li Nationalism " ; 

 Hugh 0. Pentecost, on " The Crime of Capi- 

 tal Punishment"; Henry George, on the 



" Rum Power " ; Rev. Minot J. Savage, W. 

 H. H. Murray, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, and 

 Hudson Tuttle. Besides these serious dis- 

 cussions, The Arena offers papers on literary 

 subjects, by Dion Boucicault, Louis Frechette, 

 and others, and poetry and fiction by Joaquin 

 Miller, W. H. H. Murray, Edgar Fawcett, and 

 others. Each number is to have a portrait 

 as a frontispiece ; that of Dion Boucicault 

 appears in the first number, and that of Rev. 

 Minot J. Savage in the second. 



In Some Social and Economic Paradoxes 

 a reprint from the " American Anthro- 

 pologist" Mr. Lester F. Ward sustains a 

 number of theses, the contrary of which i9 

 now more currently held, such as that " The 

 artificial is superior to the natural ; " " Social 

 activities may be artificially regulated to the 

 advantage of society " ; " Reforms are chiefly 

 advocated by those who have no personal 

 interest in them " ; " Discontent increase 

 with the improvement of the social condi- 

 tion " ; " The means of subsistence increases 

 more rapidly than population," and others 

 on the relations of capital, profits, and 

 wages. 



A pamphlet published by E. Truelove, of 

 London Home Rule and Federation is its 

 name, and A Doctor of Medicine its author 

 advocates the federation of nations on a 

 plan resembling that of the United States 

 as the cure or most effective palliative for 

 existing social and political evils. It might 

 begin with states already showing inclina- 

 tions in that direction, like those of the 

 Balkan Peninsula and Scandinavia; then 

 bring in France and England, whereby, it is 

 suggested, a solution of the Irish question 

 may be found; and at last be made uni- 

 versal. 



Some years ago Mr. /. C. Pilling under- 

 took the compilation of a bibliography of 

 North American languages ; visited many 

 public and private libraries, and corre- 

 sponded extensively ; and embodied the re- 

 sults of his researches in a volume of which 

 a limited number of copies were printed and 

 distributed. He has since continued his in- 

 vestigations, and has collected enough new 

 material to lead to the belief that a fairly 

 complete catalogue of the works relating to 

 each of the more important linguistic stocks 

 of North America may be prepared. Four 



