of government and to retain it, in the face of popular disapproval, 

 for selfish ends. Such leaders the author characterizes as "polito- 

 crats." 



The first part of the volume deals with the rise of the "polito- 

 crats' ' ; the second discusses various expedients for restoring the 

 American ideal of democracy; while the third considers con- 

 structive proposals like the commission form of government for 

 smaller cities, and the application of the principles underlying 

 this form to larger cities and the state, and to the selection of 

 judges. 



Chicago Tribune. Albert M. Kales, Professor of Law in Northwestern 

 University, has written a book which ought to be read wherever 

 citizens are perplexed by the intricacies and distressed by the failures 

 of government. 



Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1 673-1 835. By Milo Milton 



Quaife, Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Historical 



Society. 



viii-l-480 pages, 8vo, cloth; $4.00, postage extra (weight 2 lbs. 14 oz.) 



This book recounts, in a manner at once scholarly and 

 dramatic, the early history of Chicago. Important as this 

 subject is, it is not treated solely for its own sake. The author's 

 larger purpose has been to trace the evolution of the frontier 

 from savagery to civilization. From the point of view of Chicago 

 and the Northwest alone the work is local in character, although 

 the locality concerned embraces five great states of the Union; 

 in the larger sense its interest is as broad as America, for every 

 foot of America has been at some time on the frontier of 

 civilization. It is believed that this book will take rank as the 

 standard history of Chicago in the early days. 



The Nation. 



Dearborn] 



ever been made. 



careful studies in Western history 



Masters of the Wilderness. By Charles B. Reed. {Chicago 



Historical Society, "Fort Dearborn Series.") 



xii + 144 pages, i6mo, cloth; $1.00, postage extra (weight 12 oz.) 



In reproducing these romantic episodes of our exploration 

 era the author has neither exaggerated the color nor distorted 

 the facts of that intensely human period. The opening essay, 

 which gives its title to the volume,' is a highly interesting and 

 carefully wrought account of the origin and upgrowth of the 



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