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Cryptogram " of Ignatius Donnelly by no 

 means diminished his reputation as an enthu- 

 siast of sensational novelty, if it did not mate- 

 rially establish his theory as to the authorship 

 of the plays of Shakespeare. Other Shake- 

 spearean studies include " The Human Mystery 

 in Hamlet," by Martin W. Cooke : " William 

 Shakespeare portrayed by himself," by Rob- 

 ert Watters; " Shakespeare and the Bible," by 

 G. Q. Colton ; and " Shakespeare rersus Inger- 

 soll," by J. G. Hall. G. Theodore Dippold de- 

 voted himself to a solution of Richard Wag- 

 ner's poem, ' The Ring of the Nibelung," and 

 C. Morris to " The Aryan Race, its Origin 

 and Achievements." Brander Matthews wrote 

 " Pen and Ink," William S. Walsh " Paradoxes 

 of a Philistine," and Harold Van Sant " Half- 

 Holidays," a bizarre collection of "Elysian 

 Dreams and Sober Realities." Eugene M. 

 Camp, in " Journalists born or made," brought 

 forward the suggestion of adding journalism 

 to the curriculum of our colleges ; and ' Pen 

 and Powder," by Franc B. Wilkie, detailed the 

 difficulties of field correspondence during the 

 civil war. " Andersonville Violets." by Her- 

 bert W. Collingwood, deals impartially with 

 one of the saddest pages of war history. H. M. 

 Sylvester wrote " Homestead Highways," Mar- 

 garet Sidney "Old Concord," and "Negro 

 Myths from the Georgia Coast" were told in 

 the vernacular by C. C. Jones. " Outlooks on 

 Society, Literature, and Politics " is the title 

 of a volume of previously uncoilected essays by 

 Edwin P. Whipple. "Fifteenth-Century Bi- 

 bles" was the subject of a book by Wendell 

 Prime. B. C. Burt wrote " A .Brief History 

 of Greek Philosophy," and " The Poetry of the 

 Future" was handled by James W. Davidson. 

 Austin Bierbower wrote " The Virtues, and 

 their Reasons." and M. J. Barnett "Justice, 

 a Healing Power." " Of Thoughts about 

 Women, and other things," was the title of 

 essays by S. R. Reed. "The Mind of the 

 Child " was translated from the German of 

 Prof. W. Preyer by H. B. Brown ; and J. H. 

 W. Stuckenberg wrote an " Introduction to 

 the Study of Philosophy. The second volume 

 of " American Literature, 1607-1885," by- 

 Charles F. Richardson, is devoted to " Ameri- 

 can Poetry and Fiction." Prof. Herbert B. 

 Adams wrote on "The Study of American 

 History in American Colleges and Universi- 

 ties." Abbie H. Fairfield culled " Flowers and 

 Fruit from the Writings of Harriet Beecher 

 Stowe." Rose Porter wrote ' Rest Awhile," 

 and the Rev. F. S. Child, " Be strong to hope." 

 "Chapters from Jane Austen " by Oscar Fay 

 Adams, and " Readings from the Waverley 

 Novels." 1 by Alfred F. Blaisdell, belong to the 

 'Cambridge Series of English Classics," and 

 " First Steps with American and British Au- 

 thors" was also from the pen of the latter 

 writer. Edwin Ginn made " Selections from 

 Rnskin on Reading and other Subjects," and 

 " Bits of Burnished Gold " was a compilation 

 by Rose Porter in four volumes. " Letters, 



Poems, and Selected Prose Writings of David 

 Gray" were edited by J. N. Lamed, and " Brit- 

 ish Letters illustrative of Character and Social 

 Life" by E. T. Mason. "Partial Portr 

 by Henry James, is one of the most delightful 

 and characteristic of that author's production-;. 

 "The Young Idea, or Common-School Cult- 

 ure" is from the pen of Caroline B. Le Row. 

 " Word English " was a proposition to secure 

 " The Universal Language, based upon Eng- 

 lish, as Volapuk on German," made by Alex- 

 ander M. Bell, and Elias Molee made " A Plea 

 for an American Language or Germanic Eng- 

 lish." " A Short Grammar of Volapuk" was 

 compiled by J. Hanno Deiler. " Success in 

 Society," by Lydia E. White, " Manners," by 

 A Woman of Society, and " Good Form in 

 England," by An American Resident in the 

 United Kingdom, were the principal books on 

 etiquette. 



Political, Social, and Moral Sdenff, During the 

 exitement of a presidential year, problems of 

 government and social life were discussed nat- 

 urally in a concrete way, and with more or . 

 less partisan feeling, but attempts were also 

 made at higher conceptions. James Russell 

 Lowell published " Political Essays " ; Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt, " Essays on Practical Poli- 

 tics"; Edward Payson, "The Law of Equiva- 

 lents, in its Relation to Political and Social 

 Ethics"; and W. P. Atkinson, " The Study of 

 Politics, an Introductory Lecture. "Problems 

 of American Civilization " were discussed by 

 Presidents McCosh and Gates, Bishop Coxe, 

 and others. "Selections illustrating Economic 

 History since the Seven-Years' War " is by 

 Benjamin Reed ; and "Industrial Liberty," by 

 John M. Bonham, investigated the tendencies 

 of modern civilization in a broad and hopeful 

 spirit. Edwin Cannan wrote "An Elementary 

 Political Economy," and Richard T. Ely and 

 John H. Finley "Taxation in American States 

 and Cities," and Horace White translated from 

 the Italian of Dr. Luiai Cossa " Taxation, its 

 Principles and Methods." "How they lived 

 in Hampton " was " A Study of Practical Chris- 

 tianity applied in the Manufacture of Wool- 

 ens" by Edward Everett Hale. "Large Fort- 

 unes, or Christianity and Labor Problems;" 

 were handled byC. Richardson, and John Gib- 

 bons wrote "Tenure and Toil." "Property 

 in Land," by Henry Winn, vras an argument 

 against the theories of Herbert Spencer and 

 Henry George. " The Christian Unity of Capi- 

 tal and Labor," by H. W. Cadmon, gained the 

 $1,000 prize of the John C. Green income 

 fund. Rabbi H. Berkowitz published "Ju- 

 daism on the Social Question," and Frank G. 

 Ruffin " The Negro as a Political and Social 

 Factor." Alfred Shaw made a collection^of 

 papers by American economists on "The Na- 

 tional Revenues," J. B. Clark wrcte on "Capi- 

 tal and its Earnings," Prof. P. P. Hotchkiss on 

 " Banks and Banking, 1171-1888," and a series 

 of articles by different authors in the "Johns 

 Hopkins University Series " were combined in- 



