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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



No timelier or weightier message 

 was ever delivered to a people than the 

 farewell words of Herbert Spencer to 

 the Americans on the eve of his de- 

 parture from our shores. 



THE BARTUOLDI STATUE. 



Everybody has heard of the enor- 

 mous statue of "Liberty Enlightening 

 the World," now nearly completed by 

 Bartholdi, the French sculptor, to be 

 presented to the Americans for erec- 

 tion in the harbor of New York. It is 

 of magnificent proportions, the figure 

 being one hundred and forty-five feet 

 in height, and is intended to stand upon 

 a massive pedestal of equal height. The 

 arm of the figure supports an uplifted 

 torch which will be a brilliant electric 

 light at an elevation of more than three 

 hundred feet above tide-water. It will 

 be a splendid object of art, and cer- 

 tainly embodies a grand idea, standing 

 as it will at the port of the commercial 

 metropolis of the United States an 

 impressive symbol of the progress of 

 political liberty. 



The statue has been constructed at 

 the cost of a quarter of a million of dol- 

 lars, which has been raised by the sub- 

 scriptionsof a hundred thousand French- 

 men. It is to be presented by the great 

 Republic of Europe to the great Repub- 

 lic of America, and its acceptance in- 

 volves only the single condition that 

 the American shall furnish a suitable 

 foundation to support it. It will be 

 ready for delivery and erection the 

 coming summer, and it is therefore de- 

 sirable to bestir ourselves to prepare 

 for it. The pedestal is to be paid for, 

 and will cost at least two hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. There are a hundred 

 American millionaires who would be 

 delighted with the opportunity of de- 

 fraying the whole expense if they could 

 have the name of the donor engraved 

 upon it in colossal letters, and thus 

 make it a monument of selfishness, but 

 it would be better to sink it in mid- 



ocean than to suffer its perversion in 

 this way. It belongs to the American 

 people to construct this pedestal, and it 

 should be a burden upon nobody. Let 

 half a dozen puhlic - spirited and re- 

 sponsible men and women of each town 

 organize themselves into a committee 

 to obtain subscriptions from one dollar 

 to twenty-five dollars, and the amount 

 will soon be raised. It is no charity, 

 and there needs to be no begging. 

 There are plenty of people who would 

 like to have a little stock in this new 

 wonder of the world which will attract 

 multitudes from the four quarters of 

 the earth to behold it. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



James Mill. A Biography. By Alexan- 

 der Bain, LL. D. New York : Henry 

 Uolt & Co. Pp. 426. Price, $2. 



The influence of John Stuart Mill upon 

 the reputation of his father, James Mill, 

 has been twofold : he has advertised him, 

 and at the same time eclipsed him. It is 

 frequently said of James Mill that his great- 

 est work was John Mill ; and there are 

 many who suppose that this is his chief 

 title to be remembered. Others think that, 

 though the father may have been a man of 

 some consideration in his time, yet that he 

 has been so superseded by his son that all 

 interest in him has disappeared. 



But James Mill is not to be disposed of 

 in this way. It is hardly questionable if 

 James Mill is not, in fact, the greater and 

 more original man of the two. If one is 

 to be regarded as an appendage to the oth- 

 er, the order of time will correspond to the 

 order of rank. No doubt the two Mills will 

 have to be taken together as representative 

 of one system of ideas. But the system, as 

 such, belongs to the father much more than 

 to the son. James Mill led in its develop- 

 ment and John Mill followed. The son con- 

 tinued the father's work, expanding, extend- 

 ing, and elaborating it ; but he inherited it 

 as a half-constructed system, and, if the fa- 

 ther was unable directly to give it its more 

 developed form, he did it indirectly by edu- 

 cating his son entirely with reference to the 



