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that we might copy some things from Canada with benefit to our- 

 selves. In particular, he shows the advantages of a responsible 

 ministry, which is the leader of legislation as well as of adminis- 

 tration. Mr. Simon N. Patten has a curious paper on " Decay of 

 Local Government in America," in which he contends that our 

 State and local governments have " a mere nominal existence," 

 which we take leave to say is absurd. The next article, by. J. 

 B. Clark, is on "The Law of Wages and Interest." It is based 

 on Jevons's theory of final utility, but does not seem to us to shed 

 any new light upon the problem. 'Mi. F. H. Giddings discusses 

 the province of sociology, but fails to prove even the existence of 

 such a science, or to state any of its principles. Following this 

 paper are some tables by Leo S. Rowe, giving the courses of study 

 in public law and economics in the German universities, and also 

 an account by Jane J. Wetherell of a new kind of railway passen- 

 ger tariff recently adopted in Hungary. It is impossible for us to 

 describe it here, and its success is still problematical; but railroad 

 managers will doubtless take an interest in reading about it. A 

 variety of notes and book-reviews fill out the number. The 

 Annals is published for the academy by A. L. Hummel of Phila- 

 delphia at one dollar a number. 



— The July number of the Nineteenth Century, issued in this 

 country, under authority of the English publishers, by the Leon- 

 ard Scott Publication Company, New York, begins the twenty- 

 eighth volume, and is a brilliant number. Sir J. Pope Hennessy 

 opens it with a brief paper entitled "The African Bubble," in 

 which he briefly discusses the relative positions of England and 

 Africa on this important question engaging the attention of the 

 world. Professor Huxley takes the new theological book, "Lux 

 Mundi," as a text for the scientific interpretation of Scripture in 

 an article entitled "Lux Mundi and Science." He directs his 

 special attention to the story of the Flood, and his criticisms will 

 doubtless have wide reading. T. W. Bussell, M.P., writes on 

 '■Compensation or Confiscation," in which he takes up the subject 

 of the political treatment of the temperance question in Parlia- 



ment. Mile. Blaze de Bury has an article on "The French 

 Opera," in which she traces its history from its beginnings to the 

 present time. The editor, Mr. Knowles, raises the question of 

 memorials in Westminster Abbey, and explains, with the aid of 

 two plana, how much room there is still unoccupied. The King 

 of Sweden concludes his memoir of Charles XII., dealing with 

 the later years of the hero's life. Henry Snow discusses one of 

 the most important questions of the day in a paper on "The In- 

 crease of Cancer : its Probable Cause." An article on "Official 

 Polytheism in China," by A. C. Lyall, treats of the ofiicial religion 

 of China, and the extent to which it permeates official society. 

 Frederick Greenwood, the late editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 

 and one of the foremost of English journalists, writes on "The 

 Press and Government," and shows how intimate the connection 

 between the two sometimes is. Oscar Wilde contributes the first 

 part of a dialogue entitled "The True Function and Value of 

 Criticism, with Some Remarks on the Importance of doing Noth- 

 ing." Mr. Wilde expounds the nature of criticism as he under- 

 stands it, in a thoroughly characteristic manner. Sergeant 

 Arthur V. Palmer tells what he saw at Tel-el-Kebir, which is 

 interesting as being the testimony of an eye-witness. Earl Grey 

 discusses the Irish Purchase Bill. J. L. Mahon writes on "The 

 Crisis in the Post-Office," treating of conditions which are not 

 without importance in determining, in the future, the relations of 

 trades-unions to government work. 



— The Chaiitauqiian for August presents, among other matter, 

 " The Condition of American Agriculture, "by Manly Miles, M.D. ; 

 "A Sixteenth Century Garden," by Ferdinand Cohn; "Country 

 Life in Ii-eland," by J. P. Mahaffy, M. A. ; " Keeping Well in Sum- 

 mer," by Felix L. Oswald, M.D. ; " The Minor Lakes of the North- 

 west," by Horace B. Hudson; " Women Physicians in Germany," 

 by A. Von Strande; " Economical Grocery Buying," by Christine 

 Terhune Herrick; " Brain- Workers' Recreation in Flowers," by 

 Sarah K. Bolton; " Out-door Life at Wellesley," by Louise Palmer 

 Vincent; and "Children's Wit," by Margaret J. Preston. 



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