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aud during his stay abroad three parties of 

 Indians, brought over by other persons, were 

 exhibited under his management. His " Notes 

 in Europe," describing his experiences, is sin- 

 gularly interesting, especially the parts tell- 

 ing the impressions of European customs 

 gathered by his Indians. In 1852 Mr. Cat- 

 lin was overtaken by financial disaster, and 

 his gallery and museum were seized, but 

 were released by Mr. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 

 who shipped them to Philadelphia, where 

 they were stored till ISVO. From 1846 to 

 1874 several unsuccessful attempts were 

 made to persuade Congress to buy the Cat- 

 lin collection. Finally, in 1879, Mr. Thomas 

 Donaldson solicited of the executors of Mr. 

 Harrison the gift of the collection to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which was speedily 

 effected. In 1852 Mr. Catlin went to South 

 America, visiting the Indians of the Orinoco 

 and Amazon regions, and crossing the An- 

 des to Lima, whence he sailed northward to 

 Panama, California, British Columbia, the 

 Aleutian Islands, and Kamchatka. Return- 

 ing southward, he visited Yucatan, and, after 

 a trip to France, continued his explorations 

 in Uruguay, Paraguay, and the country south 

 to the Strait of Magellan, and also made 

 some geological observations in Venezuela. 

 These travels are described in his books, 

 " Life among the Indians," " Last Rambles," 

 and " Lifted and Subsided Rocks of Amer- 

 ica." He went to Europe in 1858, where he 

 remained, painting his " Cartoon Collection," 

 till 1870, when he returned to the United 

 States, and exhibited the collection till his 

 death. The "Catlin Cartoon Collection" 

 consists of copies of some of the original 

 gallery, with a large number of North and 

 South American Indian portraits and scenes, 

 in all six hundred and three pictures. It is 

 now the property of Mr. Catliu's three daugh- 

 ters. A large part of Mr. Donaldson's mono- 

 graph consists of a catalogue of the Catlin 

 Gallery, interspersed with biographical ma- 

 terial from Catlin's books and other sources, 

 concerning the famous Indians whose por- 

 traits are therein preserved, and with co- 

 pious notes on the landscapes, sporting- 

 scenes, manners and customs depicted in the 

 views. The plates which illustrate the pa- 

 per are reproductions of the paintings. The 

 catalogue is followed by the " Itinerary of 

 Mr. George Catlin, 1830 to 1871, with Notes." 



The concluding portion of the volume is a 

 sketch of the Indian policy of the Govern- 

 ment from 1776 to 1886, with statistics, and 

 includes a map .showing all the Indian reser- 

 vations in the United States in 1885, and 

 another, on a large scale, of the Indian Ter- 

 ritory. It is rare that so readable a volume 

 comes from the Government Printing-Office. 



Principles of the Economic Philosophy 

 OF Society, Government, and Industry. 

 By Van Burfn Denslow, LL. D. New 

 York: Cassell h Co. Pp. 782. Price, 

 $3.50. 



The dignity of a science is readily 

 claimed for political economy by those 

 who talk or write about it. Yet the appli- 

 cation of scientific principles to the investi- 

 gation of the subjects embraced under that 

 head, or a suggestion to enforce practically 

 the results of a purely scientific investiga- 

 tion, is scornfully rejected by the whole of 

 one of the great schools of economists. 

 Hence, the author, who writes from the 

 point of view of this school, is capable of 

 saying that "political economy has thus far 

 been conducted in a way that makes it a 

 body of fault-finding and carping, by men 

 innocent of any connection with government 

 and but slightly acquainted with business, 

 as to the effect of that legislation whose re- 

 sponsibilities they have never borne, upon 

 that industry toward which they maintain a 

 parasitic rather than a controlling relation." 

 Among the men thus ungraciously snubbed 

 are such authorities as Adam Smith, Mill, 

 Bastiat, Jevons, Cairnes, Bonamy Price, 

 Fawcett, Thorold Rogers, Sumner, John 

 Bright, Prof. Perry, and others, to whose 

 lucid and convincing expositions of the solid 

 elements of national prosperity the world at 

 large has been glad to give an attentive ear. 

 So, " apprehending that political economy 

 must needs teach the functions of govern- 

 ment concerning industry, it next follows 

 that the economist must no longer be a 

 member of a mere sect of anti-government 

 critics. Political economy can not attain 

 its true dignity as a scientific expositor of 

 the relations of government to industry so 

 long as the statesmen of the world monopo- 

 lize the ability to see things as they are, and 

 to do things in a way that is practicable, 

 while the economists indulge in the mere 

 imaginative occupation of theorizing in the 



