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\in, nml body to the therapeutic philosophy 

 id treatment of bodily and mental disease*. 

 V.. in l-Yederiek S. So/in-key, M. I)., wo have a 

 i .Medieal SytnliiilUiii." and from Paul 

 |iiin, M. !>.. iiiintlHT on "The Supremo Pas- 

 c-f .Man." " \Voi .il's .Medieal and Surgical 

 Miphs" readied No. 1 of Vol. XII, and 

 1 1 was also issued of the " Index Cata- 

 f the Library of the Surgeon-General's 

 Washington/D. C. 



Poetry. Among the 198 books of poetry pub- 

 in tin- year not one possessed striking 

 u-rit, though there were several charming and 

 1 1 collections. " The Sister's Tragedy, with 

 T Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic," of Thomas 

 \ Idrieh. st a rids in the foremost rank. " The 

 etand liisSelf," by Arlo Bates, is reflective, us is 

 o " Two Worlds,'' by Richard Watson Gilder. 

 Igar Fawcett published " Songs of Doubt and 

 mi"; Waitman Barbe, "Ashes and In- 

 I-IIM-"; James Whitcomb Riley, "The Flying 

 -lands of the Night" and " Neighborly Poems 

 Friendship, Grief, and Farm Life " ; Lizette 

 foodworth Reese, " A Handful of Lavender," 

 .-h<>rt poems dedicated to " the sweet memory 

 Sidney Lanier"; Nora Perry, "Lyrics and 

 egends f ' ; Kate Tannatt Woods, " Grandfather 

 Jrey, a companion to ' Grandmother Grey ' " ; 

 Irs Laura Garland Carr, " Memories and Fan- 

 Elizabeth Akers, " The High Top Sweet- 

 ig and other Poems " ; Madison Cawein, " Days 

 :ul Dreams " ; Celia Thaxter, " Verses " ; Frank 

 iaffee, "Songs of Spring"; J. D. Vinton, 

 'Shadows from Life*'; Isabella T. Aitken, 

 'Bohemia and other Poems"; Morris Garth, 

 'Cuba," an incident in the insurrection, and 

 t her verse; I. McC. Wilson, "The Fate of the 

 if " : Henry O'Meara, " Ballads of America " ; 

 Lnna M. Richards, " Letter and Spirit Poems " ; 

 id Isaac Baxley, " Songs of the Spirit." Mrs. 

 rah M. B. Piatt's volume of short poems was 

 ititled "An Irish Wild-flower"; "The Per- 

 ime Holder " was a Persian love poem by C. L. 

 ?tts ; Dr. Weir-Mitchell contributed " A Psalm 

 Deaths"; William S. Taylor. "Man Immor- 

 al, an Allegorical Poem " ; Emma Withers, 

 Wildwood Chimes " ; and Meredith Nicholson 

 ititled his " Short Flights "into the region of 

 icy poems and sonnets. We have "Allen 

 jrman," a biography and poems; Joseph H. 

 Toung was responsible for " Lyrics " ; M. I. 

 ' ison, for " The Vision of Misery Hill " ; G. H. 

 Conrard, for "A Junior's Poems"; Louis J. 

 Jlock, for " Dramatic Sketches and Poems " ; 

 ad Richard Hovey, for " Launcelot and Guene- 

 ere, a Poem in Dramas." Franklyn W. Lee 

 " Dreamy Hours "; Charles L. Thompson, 

 'Ktchings in Verse"; Frank W. Gunsaulus, 

 Phideas and other Poems " ; Denton J. Snider, 

 " ll.'iner in Chios: an Epopee"; and Prof. W. 

 Cleaver Wilkinson, " The Epic of Saul.' 5 " The 

 "lide to the Lady," by Helen Gray Cone, and 

 An Idyl of the Sun," by Orrin C. Stevens, are 

 not to be forgotten, nor a second series of 

 "Poems," by Emily Dickinson. "The White 

 ShirOione," by Charles L. Paige, and " Winona : 

 a Dacota Legend," by E. L. Huggins, are akin 

 in that they treat of Indian life. Walt Whit- 

 man bade " Good-by, my Fancy." A memorial 

 volume of James Russell Lowell was entitled 

 "Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets," and "The Lost 



King and other Poems," by Mrs. Caroline A. 

 Mason, had an intmduetion by Charles G. Ames. 

 " Lyrics i of the Living Church : Original Poems," 

 were edited by C. W. Leffingwell, while 

 of the Turf and ' Rank Outsiders,' " by Richard 

 L. Cary, Jr. (Ilyder Ali), were illustrated hy 

 Gean Smith. " A Midsummer Lark, 1 ' by W. A. 

 Croffut, went through a second edition, and Will- 

 iam Dean Howells opened a new series (" Harper's 

 Black and White") with "The Albany De>'.t," a 

 laughable farce. " Sunshine in Life A was a col- 

 lection of poems for the King's Daughters, com- 

 piled and arranged by Florence P. Lee. The 

 " Treasury of Favorite Poems " was a contribu- 

 tion to the " Vignette Series " by Walter Learned. 

 "The Passion Play in Oberammergau,' 1890," 

 was described by William Allen Butler. Three 

 unique volumes were "Republica: a National 

 Poem in Seven Parts," by J. P. Campbell"; the 

 "Story of the Union in Rhyme, 1492-1892," 

 anonymous ; and " The American Epic," a poetic 

 history of our country from the Stamp act, 

 1764, to the McKinley Tariff bill, 1890, by 

 Drummond Welburn. 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. In 

 politics we have an " Introduction to the Study 

 of Federal Government," by Albert Bushncfl 

 Hart (" Harvard Historical Monographs," No. 2), 

 and, in the "Johns Hopkins University Studies," 

 " Government and Administration of the United 

 States," by Westel W. and William F. Willough" 

 by. " State and Federal Government in Switzer- 

 land " was treated by John M. Vincent. Prof. 

 John W. Burgess devoted two volumes to " Po- 

 litical Science and Comparative Constitutional 

 Law," and Alex. L. Peterman wrote "Elements 

 of Civil Government," a text-book for use in 

 public schools, etc. Samuel Freeman Miller de- 

 livered "Lectures on the Constitution of the 

 United States," and Alfred Bayliss prepared 

 " Easy Lessons on the Constitution." " The Brit- 

 ish versus the American System of National 

 Government " was a paper read by A. H. F. Le- 

 froy before the Toronto branch of the Imperial 

 Federation League, Dec. 18, 1890, and John 

 George Bourinot, clerk to the Canadian House 

 of Commons, made " Canadian Studies in Com- 

 parative Politics." " Recent Constitution-making 

 in the United States: North Dakota, South Da- 

 kota, Montana, Washington," by Prof. Francis 

 Newton Thorpe, appeared in publications of the 

 American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science, and, in the " Johns Hopkins University 

 Studies," " The Constitutional Development of 

 Japan, 1853-1881," by lyenaga Toyokichi. Prof. 

 Arthur Latham Perry published an entirely new 

 work on "Principles of Political Economy, and 

 " The Educational Value of Political Economy " 

 was handled by Prof. Simon N. Patten. " The 

 Reader's Guide" in Economic, Social, and Politi- 

 cal Science " was supplied bv Richard R. Bowker 

 and George lies, and " Rudimentary Economics 

 for Schools and Colleges," by George M. Steele. 

 Slack Worthington had a volume on " Politics 

 and Property." and Henry S. Chase, M. D., wrote 

 "Letters to Farmers' Sons on the Questions of 

 the Day." " The Report of the Proceedings of the 

 American Economic Association " at the fourth 

 annual meeting was issued, and from its publi- 

 cations was reprinted "The Tide of Economic 

 Thought," an address delivered by Francis A. 



