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fluence mi Business of the Independent Treas- 



ur\." l>\ l>;ivid Kinlry; " The Merit- and I te- 

 ll he Pennsylvania Ma'.lot Law of IS'M." 



( '. Binney; "The Practical Working of 

 the Australian System of Voting in Mas-adiu- 

 seti-." I iy Richard II. Dana; "River and Har- 

 bor ltill>." I iy Kmory R. Johnson ; and "Cabinet 

 Government in t lie United States," a pamphlet 

 hv Freeman Snow. " Political Economy for 

 American Youth" was written from an Ameri- 

 can standpoint by.lacoli Harris Patten ; Thomas 

 Hudson McKee was the author of "A Manual of 

 Congressional Practice" (the United States Red 



: Kdward McPherson published the 

 Handbook of Politics for 1892''; "Principles 

 and 1'urposes of Our Form of Government as 

 sot forth in the Public Papers of Grover Cleve- 

 land " were compiled bv Francis Gottsberger, 

 \vhili> "The Republican Party and its Leaders" 

 were chronicled by Thomas W. Knox. Chandos 

 Fulton wrote the "History of the Democratic 

 Tarty from Thomas Jefferson to Grover Cleve- 

 land," and revised editions were issued of "A 

 Dictionary of American Politics," by Event 

 Hrown and A. Strauss, and Stanwood's "His- 

 tory of Presidential Elections." " Railway Rates 

 and (iovernment Control," by Marshall M. Kirk- 

 m.-iii. and "State Railroad Commissions," by 

 Frederick C. Clark (the last in " Publications of 

 the American Association " ), deserve careful pe- 

 rusal. Henry George was heard from in "A 

 Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination 

 of -Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on 

 the Land Question, with Some Incidental Refer- 

 ence to his Synthetic Philosophy." " The Sunny 

 Side of Politics," or wit and humor from conven- 

 tion, canvass, and Congress, was compiled by 

 Henry F. Reddall. " Money, Silver, and Fi- 

 nance," by J. Howard Cowperthwait, and " The 

 Question of Silver," by Louis R. Enrich, in the 

 " Questions of the Day Series " ; " The Silver 

 Situation in the United States," by F. W. Taus- 

 sig, in " Publications of the American Economic 

 Association," and " Silver from 1849 to 1892," by 

 George M. Coffin, with " Cheap Money Experi- 

 ments." reprinted from " Topics of the Time" in 

 the " Century Magazine," cover the silver ques- 

 tion. "The Behring Sea Controversy " was ex- 

 plained by Stephen Berren Stanton. " The New 

 Empire " of Canada was the subject of reflec- 

 tions by 0. A. Howard as to its origin and con- 

 stitution, and its relation to the great republic ; 

 and I. Garland Penn wrote upon " The Afro- 

 Anierican Press and its Editors." "The Chil- 

 dren of the Poor," by Jacob A. Riis. supplemented 

 his former volume telling " How the Other Half 

 Lives." Frederick J. Brown in "Streets and 

 Slums "made a study in local municipal geog- 

 raphy specially applicable in his own city of 

 Baltimore, Md., and George W. Hale supplied a 

 " I'' 'lice and Prison Cyclopaedia." In the "Johns 

 Hopkins University Studies," " The Old English 

 .Maiicr" was a study by Charles McLoan An- 

 drews in English economic history. Paul E. 

 Lauer gave his attention to " Church and State 

 in New England." and George Petrie to " Church 

 and State in Early Maryland." "The Bishop 

 Hill Colony: A Religious Communistic Set tie- 

 men t in Henry County. Illinois." was the theme 

 selected by Michael A. Mikkelsen. "The Jew at 

 Home " was described by Joseph Pennell from 



personal observation, and "The New Exodus: A 

 Study of Israel in Kussiu," by Harold Frederic. 

 \\a- called forth by the recent persecution of tho 

 race by that country. In the" Evolution S 

 of short papers, numerous questions were dis- 

 cus>ed. among which may be mentioned: "The 

 Race Problem in the South." by Joseph Le 

 Conte ; " The Land Problem," by ( it is T. Mason ; 

 " The Independent in Politics," by John A.Tay- 

 lor ; " The Republican Party." by Roswell G. 

 Horr; "The Democratic Party," fv Kdward M. 

 Shepard; "The Duty of a Public Spirit." by E. 

 B. Andrews; "Moral Questions in Politics as 

 related to the Other Methods of their Treat- 

 ment," by John C. Kimball ; the " Study of Ap- 

 plied Sociology," by Robert G. Eccles, M. I>. : 

 "The Problem of City Government," by Louis 

 G. Janes ; " Suffrage and the Ballot," by Daniel 

 S. Remsen : " Representative Government," by 

 Edwin I). Mead; and "The Evolution of the 

 Afric-American," by Samuel J. Barrows. " Our 

 Moral Nature," by James McCosh, D. D., set 

 forth a brief system of ethics ; Prof. Borden P. 

 Brown wrote upon " The Principles of Ethics " ; 

 and " The Concept of Law in Ethics," by Fer- 

 dinand Courtney French, was the thesis accepted 

 by the faculty of Cornell University for the 

 Ph. D. degree. 



Sports and Pastimes. " American Game 

 Fishes : Their Habits, Habitat, and Peculiari- 

 ties, how, when, and where to angle for them," 

 was a handsome volume to which W. A. Perry 

 (Sillalicum), A. A. Mosher, W. H. IT. Murray, 

 and other authorities contributed, while the 

 " Practical Angler," by Kit Clarke, was a less 

 pretentious work covering the same ground. 

 " Favorite Flies and their Histories," by Mary 

 E. Orvis Marbury, contained replies from ex- 

 perienced anglers to inquiries concerning how, 

 when, and where to use them. Of value to 

 sportsmen was "The Dog in Health and in Dis- 

 ease," by Dr. Wesley Mills (Mount Royal), in- 

 cluding the origin, history, varieties, breeding, 

 education, and general management of the ani- 

 mal in health, and his treatment in disease ; the 

 same writer also told " How to keep a Dog in 

 the ( 'ity." " Wheels and Wheeling, by Luther 

 H. Porter, proved an indispensable handbook 

 for cyclists. William B. McClellan compiled 

 the "Official Register of American Yachting," 

 and Jerome Flannery "The American Cricket 

 Annual, 1892." "A Bibliography of Card 

 Games, and of the History of Playing Cards." 

 compiled by T. Norton Hofr, in a limited edition 

 of 250 copies, and " The Gentleman's Handbook 

 on Pokff,'* by .the comedian W. J. Florence, 

 written, as the result of a wager, in one month, 

 complete the short list of books falling under 

 this head. 



Theology. Foremost among works of this 

 class may be mentioned "The Evolution of 

 Christianity," by Rev. Lyman Abbott, the chap- 

 ters of which were originally delivered as lec- 

 tures before the Lowell Institute of Boston. 

 "Evolution in Religion" was traced by Rev. 

 William W. McLane. and " The Human and 

 its Relation to the Divine" was thoughtfully 

 studied by Theodore F. Wright, with a view to 

 sat isfyinir" the doubts of inquiring minds. " The 

 Soteriology of the New Testament" was exam- 

 ined anew by Prof. William Porcher Du Bose, 



