I the present political position of- the Indians in our 

 country; and "Wah-kee-nah and her People," by 



I Jamea' C. Strong, told of many of their curious cus- 

 toms, traditions, and legends, the International Con- 

 gress of Charities, Correction, and Philanthropy, held 

 in Chicago in connection with the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, published a volume of " General Exer- 

 cises," as well as reports of its Third Section, edited 

 by Dr. John S. Billings and Henry M. Ilurd, upon 

 "'Hospitals, Dispensaries, etc."; of its Sixth Section, 

 edited by Daniel C. Gilman, upon " The Organiza- 

 tion of Charities"; and of its Seventh Section, edited 

 by Arnos G. Warner, upon "Sociology in Institutions 

 of Learning." " Capital Crimes and the Punishments 

 prescribed therefor by the Federal and State Laws 

 mid those of Foreign Countries," with statistics and 

 a bibliography of the subject, are advance sheets of a 

 work on criminal law and civilization in course of 

 preparation by Hon. Newton M. Curtis. "Common 

 Sense applied to Woman Suffrage," by Mary Putnam 

 Jacobi, M. D., set forth the reasons which, in her opin- 

 ion, justify the demand for the extension of suffrage 

 to the sex ; and Daniel Greenleaf Thompson delivered 

 an address on "Woman's New Opportunity" at the 

 closing exercises of the Woman's Law Class of the 

 University of the City of New York, April 5, 1894. 

 "The World's Congress of Representative Women" 

 and "The Jewish Women's Congress,'' at Chicago 

 during the World's Fair, were both ably reported. 



1 D. Convers wrote on " Marriage and Divorce in the 



j United States" as they are and as they ought to be, 

 Eev. William H. Carwardine gave his views of " The 



I Pullman Strike," and Henry Vincent told " The Story 

 of the Commonweal " from the standpoint of an ad- 

 mirer of the leader. 



Additions to intellectual science were " Psychology, 

 Descriptive and Explanatory," a treatise of the phe- 

 nomena, laws, and development of human mental 

 life, by Prof. George Trumbull Ladd ; " Primers of 

 Psychology," by the same author, in no sense an 

 abridgment of any work of his own or any other 

 writer; " The Psychic Factor," an outline of psychol- 

 gy, by Charles Van Norden, D. D. ; " Philosophy of 

 Reality: Should it be favored by America ?" by 

 James McCosh ; " Rational Philosophy : Fundamental 

 Ethics," by William Poland, an ethical analysis con- 

 ducted by way of question and answer for use in 

 classes of moral philosophy ; " Basal Concepts in 

 Philosophy," an inquiry into being, nonbeing, and 

 becoming,\y Alexander T. Ormond ; " The Study of 

 Ethics : A Syllabus," by John Dewey, the author of 

 " Outlines of Ethics " ; a second edition, enlarged and 

 revised, of " Fundamental Problems," by Paul Carus, 

 who published also a brochure on " The Nature of 

 the State " ; and an " Introduction to the Philosophy 

 of Herbert Spencer," by Prof. William Henry Hudson. 

 The " Publications of the American Academy of 

 Political and Social Science " included the " Political 

 Ethics of Herbert Spencer," by Prof. Lester F. Ward ; 

 "The Ultimate Standard of Value," by Eugen von 

 Bohm-Bawerk ; E. AlswortL Ross's study of " The 

 Total Utility Standard of Deferred Payments" ; " Con- 

 gress and the Cabinet" and " The Reform of our State 

 Governments," by Gamaliel Bradford; John A. Hob- 

 son on "The Subjective and Objective View of 

 Distribution " ; " The Theory of Sociology," by Frank- 

 lin H. Giddings ; " The Peons of the South " and "A 

 Decade of Mortcraores," by George K. Holmes ; " The 

 First State Constitutions," by W. C. Morey;"The 

 Mediaeval Manor," by E. P. Cheney ; " Federal Reve- 

 nues and the Income Tax," by F. C. Howe ; " The 

 Idea of Justice in Political Economy." by Gustav 

 bchmoller ; " The Relation of Labor Organization to 

 the American Boy and to Trade Instruction," by Ed- 

 ward W. Bemis ; " Reasonable Railway Rates," 'by H. 

 T. Newcomb ; " The Adaptation of Society to its En- 

 vironments," by William Draper Lewis ; "The Future 

 Problem of Charity and the Unemployed," by John 

 G. Brooks ; " The Problems of Municipal Govern- 

 ment," by Edwin L. Godkin ; " The Relation of Taxa- 

 tion to Monopolies," by Emory R. Johnson ; "Ameri- 

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can Life Insurance Methods," by Miles M. Dawson 

 " The Classification of Law," by Russell H. Curtis : 

 " The Failure of Biologic Sociology," by Simon N. Pat- 

 ten ; " Peaceable Boycotting," by Chester A. Reed ; 

 " Rent and Profit," by C. W. Macfarlane ; " Mortgage 

 Banking in Russia," by D. M. Frederiksen ; " The Eco- 

 nomic Function of Woman," by Edward T. Devine; 

 " Why had Roscher so Little Influence in England ? " 

 by William Cunningham ; and " The Significance of 

 a Decreasing Birth Rate," by J L. Brownell. In the 

 " Questions of the Day Series " James Douglas wrote 

 upon " Canadian Independence, Annexation, and 

 British Imperial Federation." " Chances of Suc- 

 cess " were examined bv Erastus Wiman ; " Statistics 

 of the Negroes in the United States," by Henry Gan- 

 nett, were published by the trustees of the John F. 

 Slater fund ; and Mrs. N. F. Mossell outlined " The 

 Work of the Afro- American Woman." In the " Co- 

 lumbia College Studies " F. A. Wood furnished a 

 " History of Taxation in Vermont." 



Sports and Pastimes. " Hoofs, Claws, and Antlers of 

 the Rocky Mountains by the Camera," photographic 

 reproductions of wild game from life, by Mr. and Mrs. 

 A. G. Wallihan, with an introduction by Theodore 

 Roosevelt, is the only book devoted to the nobler 



The 

 member 

 how to 



catch it ; and John Harrington Keene won himself un- 

 dying affection by " The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing, 

 Tackle-making, and Fish Breeding." The " Game 

 Laws" of New York State were published, and 

 Charles B. Reynolds compiled " The Game Laws in 

 Brief" of the United States and Canada. "The 

 Yachts and Yachtsmen of America," edited by Henry 

 A. Mott, is intended as a standard work of reference, 

 being a history of yachting as well as of the various 

 yachts and of the founders and members of the differ- 

 ent yacht clubs of America, Vol. I of which appeared 

 in 1894, in two parts. " The Scientific and Practical 

 Treatise on American Football," by A. A. Stagg and 

 H. L. Williams, was revised to date. G. Mercer Adam 

 compiled and edited " Sandow on Physical Training," 

 a study in the perfect type of the human form under 

 the direction of Sandow himself; Theodore C. Knauff 

 treated of " Athletics for Physical Culture " ; and yet 

 again we have Book IV of " A System of Physical 

 Culture " on " Popular Gymnastics," by Charles Betz. 

 Edwin Hewlett gave " Driving Lessons." " The Gist 

 of Whist," by Charles E. Coffin, is a concise guide to 

 the modern scientific game, embracing the improved 

 method of American leads and a complete glossary of 

 the common and technical terms, to which is added 

 the laws of whist as revised at the third American 

 Whist Congress. A sixth edition was issued of "A 

 Practical Guide to Whist," by Fisher Ames, and a 

 second edition of " The Game of Draughts," by Joseph 

 Gould; William Bellamy constructed "A Century of 

 Charades"; Professor Hoffman (Angelo John Lewis) 

 furnished over 400 " Puzzles, Old and New " ; Lucretia 

 P. Kale's "Fagots for the Fireside" appeared in a 

 new enlarged edition; and Alice B. Gomme compiled 

 and edited " Children's Singing Games." 



Theology. Four hundred and forty-two new books 

 were published in this department in 1894, against 

 597 in 1893. Dr. William T. Shedd added a third 

 volume, termed a supplement, to his "Dogmatic 

 Theology," containing many citations from not easily 

 accessible sources bearing on the difficult points in 

 specific unity which it is the purpose of the .volume 

 to elaborate; John Miley, D. D., contributed the sec- 

 ond volume of his work on " Systematic Theology," 

 the first of which appeared in 1892, to the " Library 

 of Biblical and Theological Literature," edited by- 

 George R. Brooks, D. D.', and John F. Hurst, D. D. ; 

 and George B. Stevens, D. D., outlined " The Johan- 

 nine Theology." S. C. Lorimer, D. D., made "The 

 Argument for Christianity"; William Fisher Mar- 

 wick published " Fundamentals," a brief unfolding of 

 the basal truths of the Christian faith ; and Bradford 

 Paul Raymond, D. D., gave a study of Christian evi- 



