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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1898; Edwin D. Mead reviewed 

 The Present Crisis briefly; The Spanish War: A 

 Prophecy or an Exception was the subject of an 

 address by the Hon. David J. Brewer. Associate 

 Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States; and two addresses of Hon. Carl Schurz on 

 American Imperialism and The Policy of Impe- 

 rialism are to be recorded. England in 1776: 

 America in 1899 was from the pen of William J. 

 Salter, and The Conquest of the United States 

 by Spain was the subject of an address to the 

 Yale students by Prof. William G. Simmer. Im- 

 perialism and Anti-Imperialism was the text of 

 several published addresses by Hon. George S. 

 Boutwell, and the Anti-imperialist Series of Ed- 

 ward Atkinson is not to be omitted, having been 

 brought into special prominence by the order of 

 the Post Office Department removing them from 

 the mails going to Manila. Ex-Senator John B. 

 Henderson printed a Speech delivered before the 

 Pike County Colony of St. Louis at its annual 

 dinner on Feb. 25, 1899, in reply to the toast 

 Our Nation. State, and County, and An Open 

 Letter, in which the situation of the country was 

 reviewed. Prof. William James denounced briefly 

 but emphatically The Philippine Piracy, and Hon. 

 George Frisbie 'Hoar set forth Our Duty to the 

 Philippines. Private Smith at the Philippines 

 came from Marion Leonidas, and Oriental Amer- 

 ica presented a chronological array of facts con- 

 nected with the war. Closely allied to our own 

 difficulties were those of Briton and Boer during 

 the year, and both sides of the South African 

 question were presented in a collection of arti- 

 cles by James Brooks Bryce, Sydney Brooks, F. 

 V. Engelenburg, and others, while from Howard 

 C. Hillegas we had Oom Paul's People, also a 

 review of British-Boer troubles in South Africa. 

 The Federation of the World was advocated by 

 Benjamin F. Trueblood, doubtless in consequence 

 of the congress at The Hague looking to that 

 eventual end of disagreements among nations. 

 Cuba and International Relations were gone into 

 extensively by James Morton Callahan, and 

 Charles M. Pepper prophesied of To-morrow in 

 Cuba. The Making of Hawaii was a study in 

 social evolution by William Fremont Blackman, 

 and Edmund Janes Carpenter was heard from 

 on America in Hawaiian Islands. Centralized Ad- 

 ministration of Liquor Laws in the American 

 Commonwealths, by Clement Moore Lacey Sites, 

 appeared in the Columbia University Studies, and 

 Economic Aspects of the Liquor Problem, by John 

 Koren, was the result of an investigation made 

 for the Committee of Fifty under the direction 

 of He/try W. Farnam. Thirty Years of New 

 Y'ork Politics up to Date were reviewed by Mat- 

 thew P. Breen, Henry Wallace wrote briefly of 

 Trusts, and how to Deal with Them, and F. 

 Hammesfahr dealt with The Corn Trade and Op- 

 tions. The Shellback, by Alexander J. Boyd, 

 edited by Archie Campbell, had an introduction 

 by Morgan Robertson, and was a terrible arraign- 

 ment of American ships. Elementary Principles 

 of Economics were set forth by Charles H. Chase, 

 and from Charles W. Macfarlane we had Value, 

 Price, and Distribution, an historical, critical, and 

 constructive study in economic theory adapted 

 for advanced and post-graduate work. A third, 

 revised and enlarged, edition was sent out of 

 Monopolies and the People, by Charles Whiting 

 Baker; Allen Ripley Foote examined Municipal 

 Public-service Industries; and Edward Webster 

 Bemis edited a collection of papers by American 

 economists and specialists on Municipal Monopo- 

 lies in the Library of Economics and Politics. 

 Adna Ferrin Weber contributed The Growth of 



Cities in the Nineteenth Century, a study in sta- 

 tistics, to the Columbia University Studies, and 

 Part II appeared of Prof. Edmund Janes James's 

 work on The Charters of the City of Chicago, 

 covering The City Charters, 1838-1851. The True 

 Basis of Economics was gone into in a corre- 

 spondence between Prof. David Starr Jordan and 

 J. H. Stallard on the merits of the doctrine of 

 Henry George, The Economic Policy of Colbert 

 was reviewed by A. J. Sargent in the series of 

 Studies in Economics and Political Science, and 

 Discussions in Economics and Statistics of the 

 late Gen. Francis Amasa Walker were edited 

 by Davis R. Dewey. The Elements of Public 

 Finance, by Winthrop More Daniels, included the 

 monetary system of the United States; David K. 

 Watson wrote a History of American Coinage; 

 and Alfred Cookman Bryan a History of State 

 Banking in Maryland, the last appearing in the 

 Johns Hopkins University Studies. Financial 

 New York, by William Ten Eyck Hardenbrook, 

 was carried on by the issue of Sections 3 and 4. 

 A Dividend to Labor, by Nicholas Paine Gilman, 

 was a study of employers' welfare institutions; 

 Charles H. Cooley treated of Personal Competi- 

 tion, with regard to its place in the social order 

 and effect upon individuals ; F. W. Lawrence went 

 into Local Variations in Wages; and William 

 Maxwell Burke into the History and Functions 

 of Central Labor Unions. Pauperizing the Rich 

 was an inquiry into the value and significance 

 of unearned wealth to its owners and to society 

 by Alfred J. Ferris. Railway Economics were 

 the theme of H. T. Newcomb, and Congressional 

 Grants of Land in Aid of Railways were the 

 subject of a thesis submitted for the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 

 by John Bell Sanborn. The Cost of Living as 

 Modified by Sanitary Science was considered by 

 Mrs. Ellen Henrietta Richards; Social Settle- 

 ments, by C. R. Henderson, was one of the Hand- 

 books for Practical Workers in Church and Phi- 

 lanthropy; and from Josiah Flynt (Frank Wil- 

 lard) we had a collection of studies and sketches 

 of vagabond life, entitled Tramping with Tramps. 

 Rev. C. H. Vail set forth the Principles of Sci- 

 entific Socialism: Hon. Carroll Davidson Wright 

 presented an Outline of Practical Sociology, with 

 Special Reference to American Conditions; The 

 Races of Europe were the theme of an exhaustive 

 sociological study by Prof. William Z. Ripley, 

 which as the Lowell Institute Lectures filled two 

 volumes; and a History of the Zoar Society from 

 its Commencement to its Conclusion, by E. O. 

 Randall, was intended as a sociological study in 

 communism. Booker T. Washington wrote ably 

 and comprehensively of The Future of the Ameri- 

 can Negro, and Samuel Creed Cross published 

 a lecture upon The Negro and the Sunny South. 

 Madison C. Peters made a plea for Justice to 

 the Jew, telling the story of what he had done 

 for the w r orld; Maurice Fluegel also wrote of 

 Israel, the Biblical People ; and Cyrus Adler edited 

 The American Jewish Yearbook, 5660, September 

 5, 1899, to September 23, 1900. Heralds of the 

 Morning, by Asa Oscar Tait, considered the mean- 

 ing of the social and political problems of to-day 

 and the significance of the great phenomena in 

 Nature, and The End of the Ages, by William 

 Fishbough, was accompanied with forecasts of 

 the approaching political, social, and religious 

 construction of America and the world. Uncle 

 Sam's Bible, according to James B. Converse, 

 contained Bible teachings about politics. L. O. 

 Curow pronounced Chicago, Satan's Sanctum. 

 Parliamentary Lessons based on Reed's Rules, by 

 Mrs. Mary Urquhart Lee, was offered as a hand- 



