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CONTENTS FOR JANUARY: 



Is Union with Canada Desirable? Senator J. S- 

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 the United States as for Canada : practical diffi- 

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 the bad teaching of a generation ago; Columbia 

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The Recall of Ministers. Pres. James B. Augell.— 

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 call down to the Saokville West Incident 



Defeated Presidential Candidates. James Parton. 

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 many narrow escapes irom dangerous Presidents: 

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Unfinished Work of the War. George B. Cowlam. 

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The Chinese Exclusion Bill. Senator Henry L. 

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