LITERARY NOTICES. 



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eral Courts ; with reviews of the relations 

 of the Supreme Court with Congress, the 

 State Legislatures and Judiciaries, and the 

 Executive ; the Supreme Court and politics ; 

 the present condition and needs of the Su- 

 preme Court ; and the conclusion, resulting 

 in the assertion that it should be a matter of 

 special congratulation that " of all our great 

 institutions the Supreme Court is most dis- 

 tinctly the product of American genius, and 

 that its success is a direct testimony to the 

 high political ability of our American people." 



Bulletin No. 6 of the Eleventh Census is 

 a preliminary statement of the Financial 

 Condition of Counties. It has been pre- 

 pared by Special Agent T. C. Copeland, and 

 shows the bonded, floating, gross, and net 

 debt, sinking fund, available resources, and 

 annual interest charge of each county in the 

 United States. The Bulletin contains also a 

 series of maps illustrating the geographical 

 distribution of county debt and resources. 

 Bulletin No. 19 gives partial results of an 

 inquiry into the Vital Statistics of the Jews 

 in the United Stales, conducted by Dr. J Jin 

 S. Billings. A discussion of the tables by 

 Dr. Billings brings out the apparent fact 

 that the birth-rate is decreasing and the 

 death-rate increasing among the Jews with 

 prolonged residence in this country. 



Economic subjects are being written 

 upon to-day by thoughtful men in every 

 calling. A recent addition to the volume 

 of literature thus produced is The Distri- 

 bution of Wealth, by Jiufus Cope (Lippin- 

 cott, $2). It embodies the author's opinions 

 on the production of wealth, its division be- 

 tween labor and capital, savings, interest, 

 taxation, protection and free trade, monop- 

 olies, and allied topics, closing with a chap- 

 ter on education of the people, secular and 

 religious. It also contains full and free com- 

 ments on certain recent books and magazine 

 articles, and in some cases the writers are 

 criticised as well as their published views. 

 On the question at present most prominent 

 the tariff the author takes the position 

 of an apologist for protection. Throughout 

 the volume his statistics are for the most 

 part those of the census of 1SS0, although 

 his table of tariff revenues is only three 

 years old. From education, he hopes that 

 the working classes will gain much in the 

 way of bettering their condition. 



A quarterly magazine called The Monist 

 has been established, with the stated object 

 of continuing a portion of the work hitherto 

 done by The Open Court (The Open Court 

 Publishing Company, $2 a year), or of de- 

 veloping " a unitary conception of the world, 

 free from contradictions and based upon 

 the facts of life." A result which is ex- 

 pected to flow from the . accomplishment of 

 this task is a purification of our religious 

 ideals. The opening article of the first 

 number is a reply by G. J. Romanes to cer- 

 tain statements of A. R. "Wallace on Physio- 

 logical Selection. The line of this reply is 

 that Mr. "Wallace has professed hostility to 

 the views of Mr. Romanes and Mr. Gulick, 

 and afterward reproduced them as original. 

 Prof. Cope contributes an analysis of The 

 Material Relations of Sex in Human Society, 

 from which he draws the conclusion that, 

 while woman is under some social disad- 

 vantages in respect to man, these are based 

 on facts of nature which can not be changed, 

 and that she has a full equivalent in advan- 

 tages which are also derived from the nat- 

 ural order of things. Other articles in the 

 number are The Immortality of Infusoria, 

 by Alfred Binet ; The Analysis of the Sen- 

 sations Anti-metaphysical, by Prof. Ernst 

 Mach ; The Origin of Mind, by Dr. Paul 

 Carus ; The Magic Mirror, by Max Dessoir ; 

 and Hoffding on the Relation of the Mind 

 to the Body, by "W. M. Salter. There is 

 also an installment of Literary Correspond- 

 ence from France, by Lucien Arreat, a de- 

 partment of book reviews, a conspectus of 

 the instruction in philosophy given at lead- 

 ing American colleges, and a list of psycho- 

 logical and philosophical articles in other 

 periodicals. 



Inquirendo Island, by Hudor Genone 

 (Twentieth Century Publishing Company, 

 $1), is a satirical story dealing with theo- 

 logical matters. Extracts from reviews on 

 the slip sent out by the publishers show the 

 religious press to be divided as to whether 

 the book is religious or irreligious. 



The Standard Dictionary of the EnglisJi 

 Language, to be published by Funk & Wag- 

 nails, is intended to be such a dictionary as 

 the people will find most useful for daily 

 consultation. While the wants of scholars 

 will not be overlooked in its preparation, 



