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by Rev. H. Tuckley ; and B. M. Palmer, D. D., 

 furnished hints on " Formation of Character." 

 "The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Corn- 

 media " was studied by W. T. Harris, United 

 States Commissioner of Education, and Vida D. 

 Scudder prepared " An Introduction to the Writ- 

 ings of John Ruskin," in the " Student's Series 

 of English Classics." " The Puritan Spirit " was 

 the theme of an oration delivered by R. S. Storrs, 

 D. D., and E. F. Mason contributed a study of 

 " The Othello of Tommaso Salvini." " Parsifal," 

 by Albert Ross Parsons, is the first title of " The 

 finding of Christ through Art, or Richard Wag- 

 ner as Theologian," while to the occult belong 

 " Hermetic Philosophy," Vol. I, anonymous, de- 

 signed for students of the hermetic, Pythagorean, 

 and Platonic sciences and Western occultism ; 

 " The Nature and Aim of Theosophy," by J. D. 

 Buck, in a second, enlarged edition, and " Echoes 

 from the Orient," by W. I. Judge (Occultus). 

 " In and Out of Book and Journal " was a col- 

 lection compiled by A. Sidney Roberts from say- 

 ings of the wise of' all times, and from H. G. 0. 

 Blake we have " Thoreau's Thoughts," sympa- 

 thetically edited, as were " Wellsprings of Wis- 

 dom : Selected Utterances from the Writings of 

 Frederick W. Robertson," with an introduction, 

 by Rose Porter. " The Best Elizabethan Plays " 

 were edited by W. Roscoe Thayer, a new edition 

 was made of " The Writings of James Russell 

 Lowell," in ten volumes, and W. E. Henley pub- 

 lished " Views and Reviews." In the " Knicker- 

 bocker Nuggets " " The Sayings of Poor Richard " 

 were edited by Paul Leicester Ford. " The Wit 

 on the Staircase " was by Frances Bennett Gal- 

 loway, and " The Old Meeting-House and Vaca- 

 tion Papers, Humorous and Others," of Rev. A. 

 M. Colton, were collected by his brother, G. Q. 

 Colton, while " Slang and its Analogues Past and 

 Present " was a " Dictionary of the Heterodox 

 Speech of all Classes of Society for more than 

 300 Years," compiled and edited by J. S. Farmer, 

 only one volume of which saw the light in the 

 year. " Webster's International Dictionary of 

 the English Language," the revised and enlarged 

 edition of the " Webster's Unabridged," made 

 under the super vision- of Noah Porter, D. D., com- 

 pletes a labor of ten years, and Vols. II, III, and 

 IV were published of the " Century Dictionary," 

 edited by William Dwight Whitney, the last con- 

 taining the letters M to P, inclusive. In the 

 four, 4,880 pages are embraced, and 152,000 

 words. " Our Dictionaries," by R. 0. Williams, 

 traces the growth of this class of work. 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. 

 " Civilization, an Historical Review of its Ele- 

 ments," in two volumes, by Charles Morris, is a 

 fit introduction to the topics covered by this 

 head. To politics belong : " Civil Government in 

 the United States, considered with Some Refer- 

 ence to its Origins," by John Fiske ; " The Un- 

 written Constitution of the United States," a 

 philosophical inquiry into the fundamentals of 

 American constitutional law, by Prof. Christopher 

 G. Tiedeman ; and " The Veto Power : its Origin, 

 Development, and Function in the Government 

 of the United States, 1789-1889," in the " Harvard 

 Historical Monographs," by E. Campbell Mason. 

 A new edition was made of " Our Government," 

 by Prof. Jesse Macy, published in 1886, but 

 largely rewritten, and from Woodrow Wilson we 



have " The State and Federal Governments of 

 the United States." " National Needs and Reme- 

 dies " was the title of the discussions of the gene- 

 ral Christian Conference held Dec. 4, 5, and 6, 

 1889, in Boston, under the direction of the Evan- 

 gelical Alliance of the United States, while " Our 

 Destiny," by Lawrence Gronlund, considers the 

 influence of nationalism on morals and religion. 

 "Some Reprehensible Practices of American 

 Government " were the subject of an address of 

 Hon. David D. Field before the Reform Club of 

 New York, delivered Jan. 10, 1890, and " Local 

 Government in Wisconsin " was treated by D. E. 

 Spencer in the " Johns Hopkins University 

 Studies." "The Political Beginnings of Ken- 

 tucky," by John Mason Brown, conclude with 

 the admission of that State into the Union in 

 1792, and " City Government in Boston : its Rise 

 and Development" were handled by H. H. 

 Sprague. " A Handbook of Politics for 1890," 

 by E. McPherson, is a record of important action, 

 legislative, executive, and judicial, national and 

 State, from Aug. 31, 1888, to July 31, 1890. 

 " The Principles of Rational Taxation " were set 

 forth by Simon N. Patten in the " Publications 

 of the University of Pennsylvania," followed later 

 in the year by " The Economic Basis of Protec- 

 tion ; " and other tariff literature were : " What's 

 the Matter? or our Tariff and its Taxes," by N. H. 

 Chamberlain ; " In Time of Peace prepare for 

 War, or Tariff and Other Talks," by J. M. Gray- 

 bill ; and " A Handbook of the Tariff," by G. 

 Huntington Adams, a revised edition of which 

 was also published. " Why the Solid South ? " was 

 explained by Hilary A. Herbert, Zebulon B. 

 Vance, John J. Hamphill, and others, in a volume 

 bearing that title, while " Notes on the Progress 

 of the Colored People of Maryland," by Jeoffrey 

 R. Brackett, in the "Johns Hopkins University 

 Studies," supplemented his " Negro in Maryland " 

 of last year. "The Negro Question" was dis- 

 cussed by George W. Cable, and " The Prosperity 

 of the South dependent upon the Elevation of 

 the Negro," shown by Louis H. Blair, author of 

 " Unwise Laws." "Whites and Blacks," by C. H. 

 J. Taylor, a young negro lawyer, and " Justice and 

 Jurisprudence : an Inquiry concerning the Con- 

 stitutional Limitations of the Thirteenth, Four- 

 teenth, and Fifteenth Amendments " practically 

 exhaust the theme. Thomas Gregg denounced 

 Mormonism in " The Prophet of Palmyra," and 

 Rev. M. W. Montgomery furnished " The Mor- 

 mon Delusion, its History, Doctrine, and the 

 Outlook in Utah." " Constitutional and Govern- 

 mental Rights of the Mormons " were published 

 anonymously at Salt Lake City. In political 

 economy we have "First Lessons in Political 

 Economy," by Francis A. Walker, for use in high 

 schools and academies; "The Working Prin- 

 ciples of Political Economy in a New and Prac- 

 tical Form," a book also for beginners, by S. M. 

 Macvane; "The Distribution of Wealth," by 

 Ruf us Cope ; " Want and Wealth," a discussion of 

 some economic dangers of the day, by E. J. Shri- 

 ver ; and an " Economic and Social History of 

 New England. 16201789," by W. B. Weeden. 

 " The Industrial Transition in Japan," by Ono 

 Yeijiro, formed No. 1 of Vol. V. of '| Publica- 

 tions of the American Economic Association." 



" The Decay of our Ocean Mercantile Marine, 

 its Cause and Cure," was an address delivered by 



