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in." We have narratives of missionary travel 

 in "The Cross and the Dragon," by B. C. 

 Henry, and "From Boston to Bareilly and 

 Back," by Rev. W. Butler, D. D. " The Cruise 

 of the Brooklyn," by Lieut. W. H. Beehler, de- 

 scribes a three years' voyage in the South At- 

 lantic and Indian Oceans. In " Two Years in 

 the Jungle," William T. Hornaday gives the 

 experiences of a hunter and naturalist in In- 

 dia, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. 

 " The King Country ; or, Explorations in New 

 Zealand," is a narrative of six hundred miles 

 of travel through Maorland, by J. H. Kerry 

 Nichols. 



Several books on travel in India, Thibet, and 

 among the Himalayas, by British authors, have 

 been published or reprinted in this country dur- 

 ing the year. "Life and Travel in India," by 

 Anna H. Leonowens; "In the Himalayas and 

 on Indian Plains," by 0. F. G. Gumming; 

 "The Abode of Snow: Observations on a 

 Tour from Chinese Thibet to the Indian Cau- 

 casus through the Upper Valleys of the-Hima- 

 laya," by Andrew Wilson; "The Queen's Em- 

 pire ; or, Ind and Her Pearl," by Joseph Moore ; 

 and "Amongst the Shans," by Archibald R. 

 Colquhoun. 



Philosophy and Mental Science. In addition to 

 some books mentioned under the head of re- 

 ligion, and treating of philosophical subjects 

 as connected with religious questions, we have 

 in this department a critical exposition of " He- 

 gel's ^Esthetics," an important work by Prof. 

 J. Steinfort Kedney, and " The Religious As- 

 pect of Philosophy : A Critique of the Bases of 

 Conduct and of Faith," by Dr. Josiah Royce, 

 of Harvard. Prof. John Fiske, carrying on 

 the line of thought begun in his " Destiny of 

 Man," has written "The Idea of God as af- 

 fected by Modern Knowledge." W. A. Hovey 

 has given us a curious book on the border- 

 land of science, 4t - Mind-Reading and Beyond." 

 " The Philosophy of Disenchantment," by Ed- 

 gar E. Saltus, is a study of pessimism. Others 

 are : " The Dromon of Darwin," by Prof. Elliott 

 Coues the principles of evolution applied to 

 the development and destiny of the soul; 

 "Problems in Philosophy," by Prof. John 

 Bascom; "Scientific Theism," by F. E. Ab- 

 bott ; " The Nature of Mind and Human Au- 

 tomatism," by Dr. Morton Prince ; and " The 

 Blot on the Brain," studies in History and 

 Psychology, by W. W. Ireland, M. D. Mr. F. 

 May Holland has written a history of "The 

 Rise of Intellectual Liberty," and a translation 

 of Lotze's " Microcosmos," as well as of his 

 "Philosophy of Religion," mentioned in an- 

 other place, has been made. 



Political Economy, Politics, In the vexed do- 

 main of economics the year has seen added to 

 the mass of discussion two books by Prof. W. 

 G. Sumner, " Collected Essays on Political and 

 Social Science," and " Protectionism : the Ism 

 which teaches that Waste makes Wealth ... a 

 Social Abuse, an Economic Blunder, and a Po- 

 litical Evil." In text-books and manuals are : 



" Practical Economics," by D. A. Wells ; " The 

 Premises of Political Economy," by Simon N. 

 Patten ; " Principles of Political Economy," 

 by Simon Newconib, and " Outline Study of 

 Political Economy," by G. M. Steele. Edward 

 Atkinson has written of "The Distribution of 

 Products." " Man's Birthright," by E. H. G. 

 Clark, aims to give a practical solution to the 

 question of ownership in land, taking into ac- 

 count both natural rights and individual claims. 

 The relations of labor and capital are directly 

 discussed in " Bread-Winners Abroad " (in 

 Great Britain), by R. P. Porter ; " Arbitration 

 between Capital and Labor," by D. J. Ryan ; 

 "The Industrial Situation and the Question 

 of Wages," by J. Schoenhof, and " The Way 

 Out," by 0. J. Bellamy. 



Prof. F. W. Taussig has written a " History 

 of the Present Tariff, 1860-1883." John Fiske 

 lias published his three lectures before the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain under the 

 title "American Political Ideas viewed from 

 the Standpoint of Universal History." J. Lau- 

 rence Laughlin has written a " History of Bi- 

 metallism " ; A. T. Hadley, " Railroad Trans- 

 portation : Its History and its Laws " ; G. A. 

 Lawton, of " The American Caucus System " ; 

 John M. Comstock, of " The Civil Service 

 in the United States"; Woodrow Wilson, of 

 "Congressional Government"; Albert Stick- 

 ney, of " Democratic Government"; Hon. C. 

 A. Washburn, of "Political Evolution"; and 

 Prof. Philemon Bliss, " Of Sovereignty " in 

 its bearing on the State, the right of secession, 

 etc. A. M. Gibson, under the title " A Politi- 

 cal Crime," has revived the question of the 

 presidential election of 1876. "The Fall of 

 the Great Republic " was an attempt to set 

 present political tendencies, in the light of their 

 possible consequences, in a history of the future 

 after the fall of the republic, and the placing of 

 the country under the protection of Great Brit- 

 ain. George W. Cable has published in a book 

 his three papers on the political situation in the 

 South" The Silent South," " The Freedman's 

 Case in Equity," and " The Convict Lease Sys- 

 tem." We may place here an anonymous book 

 which attracted great attention, " The Man of 

 Destiny," by "Siva" letters to a President- 

 elect, remarkable for their clear, cutting style, 

 no less than for their unsparing use of facts 

 and inferences. 



Religion and Theology. Most noteworthy, per- 

 haps, of books on biblical subjects, though be- 

 longing rather under the head of scientific dis- 

 cussion, is "Paradise Found," by Dr. William F. 

 Warren, President of Boston University. The 

 idea that the Arctic region was the first to be- 

 come habitable by the gradual cooling of the 

 earth's surface, has been made somewhat famil- 

 iar by Mr. Scribner's monograph, " Where did 

 Life Begin ? " and Dr. Warren has brought to 

 bear on the subject a great amount of research 

 among the mythologies and literatures of an- 

 cient peoples. 



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