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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1876. 



ton. By John Shackle ford, Jr. (Chase & Hall, 

 Cincinnati.) 



Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed Presi- 

 dent of the Underground Eailroad. (Western Tract 

 Society.) 



Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. By Julia 

 Ward Howe. With other Memorial Tributes. (Per- 

 kins Institution for the Blind, Boston.) 



A Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Ser- 

 vices of Thomas Jefferson. W ith some Account of 

 the Aid he rendered in establishing our Indepen- 

 dence and Government. By Eev. Thomas J. Davis. 

 (Claxton.) 



Edgar Allan Poe. A Memorial Volume. By Sara 

 Sigourney Eice. (Turnbull, Baltimore.) 



Life of General Custer. By F. Whittaker. (Shel- 

 don.) 



Memorials of Horatio Balch Hackett-D. D. Edited 

 by Prof. George H. Whittemore. (E. Darrow, Koch- 

 ester.) 



Sketch of the Life and Character of Eutherford 

 B. Hayes. By William D. Howells. (Kurd & 

 Houghton.) 



SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. The condition 

 of our national finances, and other political 

 problems demanding solution, have set in 

 motion many pens. Among the publications 

 on the currency question, particular mention 

 should be made of "Paper-Money Inflation in 

 France: How it Came, what it Brought, and 

 how it Ended," by President Andrew D. White, 

 of Cornell University (D. Appleton & Co.) a 

 good instance of " philosophy taught by ex- 

 ample." A popular presentation of the same 

 subject by means of an ingenious fiction is 

 " Robinson Crusoe's Money," by David A. Wells 

 (Harpers). An elementary treatise to the same 

 general purpose, and well adapted thereto, is 

 "An Alphabet in Finance," by Graham Mc- 

 Adam (Putnams). Other works, presenting 

 different sides and aspects of the same subject 

 are embraced in the following list : 



The National Currency and the Money Problem. 

 By Amasa Walker, LL. D. (A. S. Barnes & Co.) 



Immediate Preparation and Open Eesumption. 

 An Open Letter to the President of the United 

 States. By Eobert Treat Paine. (Williams, Boston.) 



The Legal-Tender Acts considered in Eolation to 

 their Constitutionality and their Political Economy. 

 By Samuel Spear. (Baker, Voorhis & Co.) 



Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Industrial 

 and Financial Questions. By William D. Kelley, 

 M. C. (H. C. Baird, Philadelphia.) 



Bi-Metsillic Money. The Necessity and Function 

 of Silver in the Currency. By Henry Cornuseti. 

 (J. S. Homans.) 



The Question of Eesumption of Specie Payments 

 stated and explained. By J. W. Shuckers. (Camp- 

 bell, Philadelphia.) 



The Money Question. By William A. Berkey. 

 (Published by the Author, Grand Eapids, Mich.) 



The Money and Finance of the French Revolution : 

 Assignats and Mandats. A True History. Includ- 

 ing an Examination of Dr. Andrew D. White's 

 " Paper-Money Inflation in France." By Stephen D. 

 Dellaye. (H. C. Baird.) 



Gold and Debt. An American Handbook of Fi- 

 nance, with over 80 Tables and Diagrams, illustrative 

 of the Following Subjects : The Dollar and other 

 Units ; Paper Money in the United States and 

 Europe ; Gold in the United States and Europe ; 

 Suspension of Specie Payments, etc., etc. Also a 

 Digest of the Monetary Laws of the United States. 

 By W. L. Fawcett. (Griggs, Chicago.) 



Other political and economical topics have 



engaged public attention to some extent. Mr. 

 Charles NordhoiFs work on "The Cotton 

 States in the Spring and Summer of 1876" 

 (D. Appleton & Co.), though by no means ab- 

 stract in form and method, has in it no small 

 amount of sound political philosophy. Several 

 political questions are treated from a stand- 

 point of radical reform in " The Protection of 

 Majorities ; or, Considerations relating to Elec- 

 toral Reforn.," etc., by Josiah P. Qnincy (Rob- 

 erts). One of Mr. Quincy's topics is discussed 

 from an opposite point of view by Mr. Hamil- 

 ton Andrews Hill in his paper on " The Ex- 

 emption of Church Property from Taxation'' 

 (Williams, Boston). The larger subject of " Re- 

 ligion and the State " is ably investigated by 

 the Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Spear (I)odd, Mead & 

 Co.). A question that has at times threatened 

 to become an active element in party politics 

 is the subject of earnest discussion in " The 

 Chinese Problem," by Prof. L. T. Townsend 

 (Lee & Shepard, Boston). The relations of 

 capital and labor are the subject of three 

 noticeable books : " Talks about Labor," by J. 

 N. Lamed (D. Appleton & Co.) ; " The Wages 

 Question : a Treatise on Wages and the "Wages 

 Class," by Francis A. Walker (Holt); and 

 ""Working People and their Employers," by 

 "Washington Gladden (Lockwood, Brooks & 

 Co., Boston). In this connection mention is 

 suitable of Prof. J. L. Dimon's oration on 

 "The Alienation of the Educated Classes from 

 Politics" (S. S. Rider, Providence). 



In the departments of speculative philos- 

 ophy, there is not much to notice. An acute 

 piece of dialectics, pursued with admirable 

 spirit, is presented in the volume entitled 

 "Faith and Modern Thought," by Prof. R. B. 

 Welch, with an introduction by Prof. Tayler 

 Lewis (Putnams). "The Philosophy of Reli- 

 gion ; or, The Rational Grounds of Religious 

 Belief," by President John Basccm, of the 

 University of Wisconsin (Putnams), is the work 

 of a vigorous and enterprising thinker, who 

 never comes before the public without some- 

 thing worth attending to, but whose works, 

 one cannot help thinking, would be the better 

 if they came in less rapid succession. The same 

 publishers issue "Principles of Psychology," 

 by Prof. Henry K Day, and "The True Order 

 of Studies," by Dr. Thomas Hill, ex-President 

 of Harvard College. " Similarities of Physical 

 and Religious Knowledge," by Rev. James 

 Thompson Bixby (D. Appleton & Co.), is an 

 original and profound discussion. Anothei 

 work in which the relations of physical to 

 metaphysical science and to theology are 

 thoughtfully and wisely considered is "Dar- 

 winiana: Essays and Reviews pertaining to 

 Darwinism," by Asa Gray, professor in Har- 

 vard University (D. Appleton & Co.). "The 

 Development Hypothesis: Is it sufficient?' 

 by President James McCosh, D. D., LL. D., of 

 Princeton College (Carters), brings together 

 papers heretofore published, with some new 

 matter. 



