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Sunny Side of Shadow Reveries of a Convales- 

 cent " was from the pen of Mrs. S. G. W. Ben- 

 jamin. Daniel E. Bandmann was the author of 

 " An Actor's Tour, or Seventy Thousand 

 Miles with Shakespeare " ; Ingersoll Lockwood 

 published " The Perfect Gentleman " ; Rev. J. 

 C. Seymour compiled " Humor, Pith, and 

 Pathos"; while Minot J. Savage brought out 

 "These Degenerate Days." M. Salmonson 

 writes a very comprehensive work entitled 

 u From the Marriage License Window, an 

 Analysis of the Characteristics of the Various 

 Nationalities ; Observations made and Inci- 

 dents told ; Facts from Every-Day Life." 

 ' The Voice of the Grass " was by Sarah Rob- 

 erts. " The Vacation Journal, Diary of Out- 

 ings from May until November," is a very 

 pretty and useful little handbook, containing 

 a list and description of the more common wild- 

 flowers met during such outings. William J. 

 Stoddard brought out " George Washington's 

 Fifty-seven Rules of Behavior " ; Helen Erskine 

 Starrell was the author of " Letters to Elder 

 Daughters, Married and Unmarried " ; while 

 Mrs. Dora E. W. Spratt wrote ''Daylight; or, 

 a Daughter's Duty." Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker 

 brought out a compilation of " Best Things 

 from Best Authors " ; Frank Dempster Sher- 

 man published " New Waggings of Old Tales " ; 

 " Saratoga Chips and Carlsbad Wafers " was 

 by Nathaniel Sheppard ; James Morris Whiton 

 published "Turning Points of Thought and 

 Conduct," and A. D. T. Whitney "Bird-Talk: 

 a Calendar of the Orchard and Wild Wood." 

 " Child of the Century " is from the pen of 

 John T. Wheelwright; "Familiar Allusions" 

 was compiled by C. G. and W. A. Wheeler; 

 and "Essays, Reviews, and Discourses" was 

 published by D. D. Wliedon. Charles G. D. 

 Roberts is the author of " In Divers Tones." 

 " Breezes from Oak Bluffs " is anonymous ; 

 " Modern Viking Stories of Life and Sport in 

 the Norse Land " is by Hjalmar H. Boyesen ; 

 " A Boston Girl at Boston, Bar Harbor, and 

 Paris," appeared anonymously ; D. G. Brinton 

 brought out " The Conception of Love in some 

 American Languages " ; P. J. Stahl " Her 

 Happy Thoughts"; M. A. P. Ripley "Hidden 

 Homes" ; Caroline B. LeRew " English as She 

 is Taught"; and Julian Sturgis "An Accom- 

 plished Gentleman." 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. The political 

 and social questions before the country during 

 1887 being mainly practical, they received more 

 thoughtful attention than those belonging more 

 particularly to morals and manners in the ab- 

 stract. Thus, J. Watts Kearney published " A 

 Study of American Finsmce," and John Jxy 

 Knox his " United States Notes, a History of the 

 Various Issues of Paper Money." The impor- 

 tant question under consideration between Can- 

 ada and the United States was handled by John 

 Jay under the title of " The Fisheries Dispute," 

 and O. Isham in " The Fishery Question." 

 Charles A. O'Neil wrote on " The American 

 Electoral System," and R. R. Bowker on " Civil 



Service Examinations." " The Old South and 

 the New, a Series of Letters." is from the pen of 

 Hon. Win. D. Kelley, the Protectionist leader. 

 Anna Bowman Dodd published "The Republic 

 of the Future," Fremont O. Bennett a study 

 of " Politics and Politicians of Chicago," and 

 Marshal S. Snow an analysis of "The City 

 Government of St. Louis." The temperance 

 question was handled by Rev. G. R. Sikes in 

 " Pen Pictures of Prohibition and Prohibition- 

 ists," and by many others. " Antislavery be- 

 fore 1800 " is an important historical study by 

 W. F. Poole, the well-known librarian. "Men 

 and Manners One Hundred Years ago" is by 

 H. E. Scudder; and T. W. Higginson published 

 " Women and Men," subjects on which he is 

 fully qualified to write. " Woman First and 

 Last, and What She has Done," is by Mrs. E. 

 J. Richmond. Juliet Corson gave us an 

 economic treatise entitled " Family living on 

 Five Hundred Dollars a Year " ; George C. 

 Lorimer, LL. D., published " Studies in Social 

 Life," and Rev. R. Heber Newton his " Prob- 

 lems and Social Studies." Utah was considered 

 by Rev. R. W. Beers in " The Mormon Puzzle, 

 and How to Solve It " ; " Social Etiquette of 

 New York" was published anonymously. 

 " Somnambulists and Detectives " was from the 

 pen of the expert, Allan Pinkerton, and Edward 



A. Rand wrote a deserved tribute in " Fighting 

 the Sea; or, Winter at the Life- saving Station." 

 In moral and intellectual philosophy we have, 

 to begin with, " Morals Versus Art," by An- 

 thony Comstock, a work as to whose impor- 

 tance critics will doubtless differ. Edgar Saltu, 

 the apostle of pessimism, published "The 

 Anatomy of Negation." "A Woman in the 

 Case " was a brochure emanating from the pen 

 of Elliott Coues, the Washington theosophist, 

 who adopted this means of warning away the 

 general public from the dangerous study of the 

 occult. Prof. A. P. Peabody published " Moral 

 Philosophy," and Dr. James McCosh " Realistic 

 Philosophy." The questions of capital and 

 labor, and protection and free trade brought 

 into the literary arena numerous writers, be- 

 ginning with Henry George in the work enti- 

 tled "Protection or Free Trade," and follow- 

 ing with a number of others, bearing critically, 

 more or less severely against or trenchantly in 

 favor of the apostle of anti-poverty. Thus we 

 have R. C. Rutherford in " Henry George 

 versus Henry George " ; Sister M. Frances 

 Clare with " Anti-Poverty and Progress " ; J. 



B. Miller in " Trade Organizations in Politics," 

 and " Progress and Robbery, and Progress and 

 Justice." L. H. King, D. D., writing upon a 

 side matter, brought out " The Real Issue be- 

 tween the Pope and Dr. McGlynn." Prof. 

 William Oliver Perry published " Capital and 

 Labor ; or, the Liquor Traffic considered from 

 a Financial Standpoint." Amos G. Warner 

 wrote "Three Phases of Co-operation in the 

 West " ; Giles B. Stebbins came forward with 

 the " American Protectionist's Manual " ; and 

 Edward Atkinson brought out " The Margin 



