AiM^LETONS' SPRING BULLEl'IN 



closed to those who love birds too much to find pleasure in killing them ; to whom 

 Bob-White's ringing whistle does not give rise to murderous speculations as to the 

 number in his family, but to an echo of the season's joy which his note voices^ 

 They therefore have a new incentive to take them out of doors ; for however 

 much we love Nature for Nature's sake, there are few of us whose pleasure in an 

 outing is not intensified by securing some definite, lasting result." 



JOHN BACH McMASTER. 



In the fifth volume of his History of the 

 People of the United States Professor McMas- 

 ter deals with a period of our history between 

 1 821 and 1830, which in many of its phases 

 has received but scant attention. The close 

 of Monroe's term, the administration of John 

 Quincy Adams, and the stormy opening years 

 of Jackson, form an epoch of peculiar interest in 

 view of the development of the democratic 

 spirit, the manifestations of a new interest in 

 social problems, the experiments in banking and 

 finance, the improvements in the conditions of 

 city life, the changing reladons between the East 

 and West, and the author's full and striking 

 presentation of the literary activity of the country at that time. 



Professor McMaster's volume opens with a chapter on the Early Settlement of 

 Texas by Austin and his imitators, and on the origin and first temporary settle- 

 ment of the Oregon dispute by the establishment of the hnfe 54° 40'. It was in 

 connection with this line that Adams announced to Russia the anticolonization 

 part of the Monroe Doctrine. 



The second chapter, therefore, under the caption Growth of the Monroe 

 Doctrine, reviews the gradual development and assertions of the three principles 

 of that doctrine from Washington's day to 1823 ; the Holy Allies and their work 

 in Europe, their preparation for interference with the late Spanish-American 

 colonies, and the final assertion of the doctrine of Monroe. After thus reviewing 

 the important foreign relations of Monroe's second term, Mr. McMaster returns 

 to domestic concerns, and in the next chapter treats of The Breaking Up of the 

 Republican Party. The economic, industrial, and political conditions which led 

 to sectionalism, the rise of the rival candidates, and the long presidential campaign 

 ending in the failure of the colleges to elect, are given with great fullness. 



The election of Adams marked the end of the first half century ot the repub- 

 lic. The next eight chapters are therefore given up to an examination or review 

 of certain social, political, literary, and industrial conditions which arose during 

 the period and paved the way for the triumph of Jackson and Democracy. 



In the chapter on Socialistic and Labor Reforms we have the story of the en- 

 trance of the workingman into politics ; of that curious socialistic movement of 



