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sented by Dorm an B. Eaton in a book entitled 

 "Civil Service in Great Britain" (Harper & 

 Brothers). " The Currency Question " (G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons) is an argument against infla- 

 tion and against State banks, by Judge Robert 

 "W. Hughes of Virginia. Secretary John Sher- 

 man's principal writings on subjects connected 

 with finance and taxation are given in a vol- 

 ume of " Selected Speeches and Reports " (D. 

 Appleton & Co.). Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 

 deals with the political questions connected 

 with railroading in a volume on " Railroads, 

 their Origin and Problems" (G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons). Roscher's standard German treatise on 

 political economy has been translated by John 

 J. Lai or and published by Henry Holt of New 

 York. Professor Francis A. Walker's " Money, 

 Trade, and Industry " (Henry Holt & Co.) is 

 a valuable contribution to political economy, 

 discussing the relations of money to commerce 

 and production, and defining the true nature 

 of money from the standpoint of the political 

 economists with great clearness and force ; a 

 branch of economical science which has a pe- 

 culiar present interest to the American public, 

 being involved in some of the living questions 

 of politics. Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, 

 in " Socialism," while deprecating the theories 

 of the socialistic teachers of Europe, appeals 

 to Christian sentiment to supply the links of 

 sympathy and fellowship whose absence em- 

 bitters and antagonizes the different classes of 

 society. " Labor and Capital Allies, not Ene- 

 mies " (Harper & Brothers), contains the sub- 

 stance of an argument presented before the 

 Hewitt Congressional Committee by Edward 

 Atkinson. The Rev. Joseph P. Thompson dis- 

 cusses socialism and the labor question in " The 

 Workman : his False Friends and his True 

 Friends " (American Tract Society). Henry 

 Ammon James's essay on " Communism in 

 America" (Henry Holt & Co.) received the 

 Yale Porter prize in 1878. A series of "Eco- 

 nomic Monographs " (G. P. Putnam's Sons) in- 

 cludes "Honest Money and Labor," by Carl 

 Schurz; "National Banking," by M. L. Scud- 

 der; "Bimetallism," by Hugh McCulloch; 

 " Labor-making Machinery," by F. Perry Pow- 

 ers ; and " Andrew Jackson and v the Bank of 

 .the United States," by William M. Royall. 

 The "Industrial History of the United States," 

 by Albert S. Bolles (Norwich, Conn.), is a work 

 on an important subject, compiled with con- 

 siderable labor. The " American Almanac and 

 Treasury of Facts " for 1879 is a compilation 

 of well-selected statistics, by A. R. Spofford 

 (New York, American News Company). The 

 " Primer on the Natural Resources of the Uni- 

 ted States " (D. Appleton & Co.) is a useful 

 compendium by J. H. Patton. " The Commer- 

 cial Products of the Sea," by P. L. Simmonds 

 (D. Appleton & Co.), is the first general trea- 

 tise yet written on this interesting subject. 

 Holyoake's "History of Cooperation in Eng- 

 land " (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) is a work of 

 exhaustive research, a faithful and comprehen- 



sive account of an important economical devel- 

 opment. 



A moderate number of books of Travel and 

 Geography of a light and popular character 

 have been produced, and some with more stu- 

 dious and thoughtful contents. " Four Months 

 in a Sneak-Box " is a narrative of a voyage in 

 a small hunting-boat on Western rivers, by 

 Nathaniel H. Bishop (Boston, Lee & Shepard). 

 Updegraff's " Bodines " is a narrative of the ex- 

 periences of two amateur fishermen upon their 

 excursions in the woods of Pennsylvania (J. B. 

 Lippincott & Co.). " The Witchery of Arch- 

 ery" (Charles Scribner's Sons), by Maurice 

 Thompson, is an entertaining book of descrip- 

 tions of nature by one fond of roving the 

 woods with a long-bow in his hand, and a 

 manual of the sport of bow-shooting. "A 

 Fool's Errand, by one of the Fools," is a caustic 

 account of the social condition of the South by 

 an officer of the Federal army who lived there 

 for several years after the war (New York, 

 Fords, Howard & Hulbert). Mrs. H. W. Beech- 

 er's "Letters from Florida" (D. Appleton & 

 Co.) are descriptions of that subtropical State, 

 presenting its advantages as a sanitarium. J. 

 Codman's " The Round Trip by Way of Pana- 

 ma " is an excellent descriptive and statistical 

 account of the Pacific and Rocky Mountain 

 States and Territories (G. P. Putnam's Sons). 

 William H. Rideing's "A-Saddle in the Wild 

 West " (D. Appleton & Co.) is a remarkably 

 entertaining book of travel in the Western 

 country, relating experiences passed through 

 in the Wheeler Expedition, and graphically 

 describing the scenes and objects encountered. 

 "The Great Fur Land" is an illustrated vol- 

 ume descriptive of the Hudson's Bay Territory, 

 by H. M. Robinson (G. P. Putnam's Sons). 

 "Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast," by Her- 

 bert H. Smith (Charles Scribner's Sons), is an 

 account of travels and explorations in Brazil 

 by a naturalist who is at the same time an in- 

 telligent observer of social and economical con- 

 ditions. "Around the World with General 

 Grant," by John Russell Young, is published 

 by the American News Company in the form, 

 growing in favor, of a subscription part book. 

 An account of the ex-President's tour has also 

 been written by J. M. Keating, " With General 

 Grant in the East" (J. B. Lippincott & Co.). 

 "The World's Paradises" is a readable account 

 of the most noted sanitaria, by S. G. W. Ben- 

 jamin, published in Appleton's Handy- Volume 

 Series, which includes also "The Alpenstock," 

 an agreeable description of Alpine scenes and 

 explorations, by W. H. Rideing. Horatio King's 

 " Sketches of Travel " is a narrative of Euro- 

 pean travel by ex-Postmaster King (Washing- 

 ton, J. Bradley Adams). William Winter's 

 "Trip to England" (Boston, Lee & Shepard) 

 is filled with the sentiments inspired in a mind 

 of tender sensibilities on visiting the scenes 

 of historic memories. " Spain in Profile," by 

 James Albert Harrison (Houghton, Osgood & 

 Co.), is a volume of impressions and descriptions 



