administration. THE HIRSCH COLONY IN NEW JERSEY. Springfield Republican, Nov. 28.-Baron Hirsch's colony of Russian Jews near Cape May, N. J., is rapidly taking on the semblance of a thrifty community. The trustees of the Hirsch Fund purchased 5,000 acres of woodland, upon which as it is cleared a village is being built and fatal to National life. THE LIQUOR ISSUE. of such politico-economic measures as subordinate the | Commerce dinner the majority of the guests | weeks named hereunder (enumerated inhabigeneral weal to the interests of a privileged minority. 14. An efficient national and international legislation were men whose profession was the amassing tants in 1881, 3,815,000): Fifth week of Octofor the protection of the working classes; the taking of money. The Chamber of Commerce of ber, 1891-indoor, 57,455; outdoor, 32,367; over by the State of all workmen's insurance agencies, this city is the oldest organization of the kind total, 89,822. Fifth week of October, 1890the workmen to be given an adequate share in their in this country, and it was natural that all the indoor, 57,295; outdoor, 33,669; total, 90,964. 15. An unbroken period of rest of at least thirty-six speakers should dwell upon some aspect of the Fifth week of October, 1889-indoor, 58,434; hours in each week for every workingman, same subject. Money began, continued, and outdoor, 35,118'; total, 93,552. Fifth week of It will be observed that nothing in this plat-ended as the accompaniment of the banquet, as October, 1888-indoor, 58,556; outdoor, 37,form essentially differentiates the German So- indispensable as ice or roses to enjoyment of 799; total, 96,355. (These figures exclude cialists from any other liberal political party. the occasion. This was quite to be expected, patients in the fever and smallpox hospitals of There is nothing advocated that is not to a and exactly what ought to have been the case, the Metropolitan Asylum District, the number greater or less degree already in operation in and the topic of "Circulation the Law of of whom on the last day of the week was reFrance, England, Switzerland, or the United Wealth" was perhaps the best that could have turned as 1,750 in 1891, 2,355 in 1890, 1,624 in States. It will also be observed that nothing This was none the less true because he handled the metropolis on the last day of the fifth week been chosen for Bishop Potter's response. 1889, and 1,011 in 1888.) Vagrants relieved in whatever is said of public ownership of land or machinery. The German Socialists may be- the subject of circulation in its moral aspect. of Octobor, 1891 :-Men, 766; women, 239; lieve the doctrines of Karl Marx, but they have He made here a most important point. It is children under 16, 19; total, 1,024.-London ceased to preach them. Nothing in the plat- not right, he implied, to pile up immense Times (weekly edition), Nov. 13. form will alarm conservatives, and if every- fortunes which are more than enough to prothing advocated could be accomplished the con- vide for those who are dependent on the foredition of the working people would not be ap- sight of the money-maker. The evils that preciably better. It is impossible to settle the result from the possession of great wealth by THE TEMPERANCE WOMEN. labor question apart from the land question, those who have not earned it, form one reason which the German Socialists have ignored. why money should be kept in circulation by Christian Register (Boston), Nov. 25.-Unthose who have made or are making it. Many less one attended some of the meetings of the an heir has been ruined, morally, physically, dual gathering of the National and World's and spiritually, by obtaining control over such Christian Temperance Unions, it is impossiamounts of money as prove a temptation to ble to have any conception of the thrill of inTo purge the State of great fortunes would re- like a breath from heaven. There was first the vice, indolence, social and political corruption.spiration that swept through and through them lieve a plethora that may in the end prove inspiration of numbers. Not only was every The Bishop proposed State in the Union represented, but from far the old remedy, and it is indeed a gracious and away New Zealand, China, Japan, Ceylon, and a goodly sight to see a modern Bishop advis- other Eastern countries, as well as from our farms laid out. The village is to consist at first of 50 neat cottages costing $600 each, a shirting merchant princes to sell and give to the nearer neighbors across the sea, came delefactory, in which 250 of the colonists are to be poor. gates. Day after day and three times a day, employed, a church, school-house, and, by and the great temple was thronged with earnest by, a public library. Surrounding the village are HOW THE FEDEral Government MAY EX- women, bright, wide-awake, full of wise plans, farms of 30 acres each, which are to be sold at TERMINATE THE LOTTERY.-We made the sug- and working together in a sisterly spirit that $5 an acre uncleared, and $15 an acre if cleared gestion a short time since that the best way to was delightful to witness. It would be hard to and plowed. Only heads of families are to be attack the Louisiana Lottery would be by a have any but a spirit of love and good-will unallowed to purchase these farms or the houses National tax similar to that which is imposed der the guidance of a President who is the inin the village, and terms of payment are to be upon the notes of State banks and upon the cir- carnation of these virtues, backed with a made easy enough to enable any thrifty colo-culating scrip of municipalities, taking care, of strength that is felt by all. Plans for nist to own his house or his farm. The course, to put the tax high enough to be pro-active work in many lines were laid out, colonists must be industrious and have hibitory. Precedents for taxing lotteries and Of course, the direct work of the Union-agisome knowledge of farming or of some lottery tickets are abundant. During the war tation for total abstinence, Prohibition, Bible trade, and must avoid intoxicants, none of there was a license tax on lottery companies, study, and evangelistic work-takes the leadwhich will be sold in the colony. There together with a tax on their gross receipts and ing place; but there are many affiliated subjects are already some 150 of them at work a stamp tax on lottery tickets. A precedent that claim a fair amount of attention. clearing land, making roads, laying out farms, for making a tax prohibitory exists in the case urged that every practicable means should be building houses and the like, and their num- of the tax on State bank notes, as already employed to secure for women equal governbes are increasing so rapidly that the full num- mentioned, which prohibition remains in force mental rights in State and Church; that every ber for whom there is room will be on the to this day. We understand that this method effort should be made to keep the public ground as soon as houses can be built for them. of dealing with the pest of New Orleans has schools unsectarian; that laws should be passed Fifty houses will be ready in sixty days, and been examined by the legal counsel of those requiring physical training and industrial inthe shirt factory will be ready also, and almost who are making the fight against it, and has struction as a part of public school education; half the land is so far cleared as to make the been pronounced free from constitutional diffi- and that the press should be purified by the selection of farms possible. The land is fertile culties.-New York Evening Post, Nov. 28. omission of the details of crimes and impure and suitable for market gardens and small matter in the form of medical and personal fruits, and there are already 500 acres sown in EUROPEAN HELP IN THE SOLUTION OF OUR advertisements. The work of Pundita Ramrye. It lies along the West Jersey Railroad IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.-The International abai for child widows in India was recognized and has easy access to markets. The scribe Emigration Commission is holding its first with gratitude. The immodest style of drawand schoolmaster of the colony is at work, and meeting in Paris to consider plans for emigra- ing-room dresses was condemned, and a meteaches his full-grown pupils nightly the rudi- tion which will settle this troublesome ques-morial was presented looking to provision for ments of an English education. The colonists tion. Jules Simon presides at this meeting and separate buildings for men and women prisonare illiterate, usually not able to read and write the Prince de Cassona is one of the men re- ers in the Indian Territory. These are only a their own language, but they are all anxious to sponsible for the Commission. The Prince few of the many subjects touched upon. learn, and to become American citizens, so says it is their purpose to devise some plan to The courage and hope of this army of workers they study hard, and some of the burly fellows exclude from the emigrants all paupers, inva- seem sublime, as one walks about the cities have begun reading. The schoolmaster is an lids, criminals and the riff-raff generally. His and sees the innumerable liquor-saloons or educated man who was expelled from Russia; plan is to have the Consuls examine the lists enters the miserable homes whose wretchedhe is a book-keeper, and is giving the colonists of emigrants before they leave European ports ness is chiefly due to the drinking habit. With lessons in this science as well as in the institu- to see that there are none of these objection- all their might and power, little yet seems done tions of this country. able classes among them., The Commission toward removing the actual curse or curing has a big contract before it, but it is a work the habit, and building up a public sentiment which should be done well, and it is for the that shall make it possible to hurl the hated BISHOP POTTER'S COUNSEL TO THE best interests of Europe as well as America monster into the sea. But such a meeting as MERCHANT PRINCES. this does help wonderfully to create public The influsentiment in favor of temperance. ence of these tens of thousands of devoted women throughout the land is bound to tell in favor of temperance and purity, and all who stand for these must wish them a hearty Godspeed. It is that some system of inspection shall be agreed The Churchman (New York), Nov. 28.- upon before emigrants leave their native shores. Bishop Potter has on several occasions spoken The time has come when every Government on the responsibilities of wealth. The diocese must care for its own criminal classes. Governover which he is Bishop contains some of the ments can no longer allow criminals to go scot wealthiest men in the world. Its see city is free on promise to leave the country. The the commercial centre of this continent, and in world is so nearly inhabited by civilized people that city never before this era were seen so that there is no place for the criminal to go. many of the signs of great wealth, lavishly He must, therefore, be taken care of at home. spent and ostentatiously displayed. The pala-Chicago Inter-Ocean, Nov. 26. ces of New York, the equipages of New York, rival those of ancient European nobilities, and PAUPERISM IN LONDON.-Census of metro-vidual independence is essential to the success the fortunes of New York men are the wonder politan paupers, exclusive of lunatics in asylums of our system of government by majority. Any of the older world. At the recent Chamber of and vagrants, taken on the last day of the system by which votes are controlled in masses, THE DIS A ARGUMENT AGAINST TINCTIVE PROHIBITION PARTY. Montreal Weekly Witness, Nov. 25.-Indi and, as a result, traded in, is a danger to freedom. Any system under which citizens become political partners with evil in order to MISCELLANEOUS. FAIR. ted from Niagara Falls to Chicago. Man's ability to thus transmit power for long distances and store it in accumulators is no longer in doubt. It has found a practical demonstra gain what they consider some greater good GOVERNMENT AID FOR THE WORLD'S tion in Germany at the electrical exposition in through the triumph of a party is essentially evil and demoralizing to the man who makes this compromise with his conscience. It is necessary to support the best of two candidates if one is to vote at all, but this should be combined with complete freedom to protest against and to condemn what is wrong. It is the almost universal but compromising notion that one must vote for and support a party rather than men and principles, which, politically, so many of our best men deprecate. We are in favor of men banding together to support a righteous principle, but we are decidedly against asking or giving any pledge to vote at the bidding of any organization. A true man will hold his conscience always free. Mr. Bryenton's pledge would read more wisely if it went somewhat as follows: "We, therefore, agree hereafter to vote only for such candidates as can be trusted to support total Prohibltion of the traffic, and to labor for the election of such whenever in other respects we conscientiously can." It may be said that this is a pledge very easily got out of, but as it is the only pledge a conscientious man can rightly make, it is the only one which can really further the cause of morality. THE NEED OF ENLISTING THE The Independent (New York), Nov. 26.-An immigrant is not one, be he Italian or Bohemian, or Pole or Russian Jew, to be looked at askance as if he were but half human. There has been too much of this Pharisaical and contemptuous spirit exhibited by the native population, and they are being punished for it. The utmost effort should be made to bring the children of immigrants into our public schools, and to teach them the English language and the love of country, But there is a further duty to be performed, of personal, affectionate contact. We may love our own, but a special obligation rests upon every Christian for kindly attention to the stranger in our midst. There is no other work which the temperance reformers need to do more that. Frankfort. Between Niagara Falls and Chicago Providence Journal, Nov. 27.-Five million the distance is about 475 miles, and it will theredollars is the sum that Chicago has finally fixed fore require about 80,000 volts at the generatupon as the extent of her immediate requesting end of the line. But deducting all the for an appropriation from the United States elements of loss in the transmission, the power Treasury, and she seems to think she has rea- can be delivered in Chicago at reasonable son to be astonished at her moderation. It is rates. Of the wonders that are to make useless, of course, to remind her of the fact the Chicago Exhibition conspicuous those of that she expressly and emphatically agreed to electricity seem likely to overshadow all others. furnish all the money required for the Colum- The demonstrated fact that power and elecbian Exposition without asking the United tricity are interconvertible at long distances States for a single penny beyond the appro- means revolution in the industrial and propriation necessary to make a Government dis-ductive powers of the world. The substitution play; she will not be abashed, much less of electricity for steam and beasts of burden silenced, by such little unpleasant reminders will mean cleaner and healthier cities, more as She even insists on the utmost humanity for our dumb animals, cheaper propromptness in turning over to her the sum duction, increased and rapid intercommunicaasked of the Nation, apparently in the fear tion, and economy everywhere. The child is that without it the salaries of the various offi- born who will probably live to see a man sitcials cannot be paid through the holiday season ting in the shadow of Niagara, who, by the which draws so heavily on us all. Just what turn of a screw, can snpply the motive power Congress will do in the matter no one can say, for half a continent. Such prospective wonders and just what it ought to do it is not altogether are apt to inspire the feeling that one would easy to decide. We cannot forget that the like to stay around old earth a few hundred Treasury is in no condition now to stand any years longer.-Boston Globe, Nov. 28. unusual drain upon it, and we cannot but remember that one of the strongest reasons for selecting Chicago as the site of the Exposition was her declared ability to foot all the bills and her proffered guaranty that the Nation would It is an unfortunate fact, not be called upon. however, that of the fifteen million dollars said to be pledged by Chicago people only about three millions have yet materialized, and there seems to be real danger that without Government assistance the Exposition will be a gigantic fizzle. Whether the Nation, having assumed a certain responsibility for it as a National affair, can afford to let it result in anything less than a great success in the eyes of the world, is the real question now to be decided. INSUFFICIENCY THE WHALE INDUSTRY.-Whale fishery is an industry that would have died out from natural causes under the pressure of an increased demand for oil, even though the discovery of mineral oil had not come at an opportune time to supply a substitute product. It is not a matter of surprise, therefore, to learn that it is still declining. The Census report for the year 1889 shows a decline of about 40 per cent. in the number of vessels engaged in the business, their tonnage and value, compared with the returns for 1880. The whale fleet in 1889 comprised 101 vessels, with a total net tonnage of 22,660. Seventy of these vessels, with twothirds of the tonnage, belonged in MassachuOF THE MARINE setts, more than one-half of the whole number SUBSIDY. in New Bedford. The capital invested in the business is $1,913,275, one-half of which is Scientific American (New York), Nov. 28.— The value of the carefully than that of influencing the immi- The International Navigation Company has represented by the vessels. products obtained is $1,681,167, whalebone grants through their own Church organizations decided not to compete for the American mail alone representing nearly $1,000,000, the other and by kindly individual effort, so as to teach contract under the Postal Subsidy Act, in chief products being whale oil and sperm oil. them everything that we have to teach in accordance with which bids have been opened Two-thirds of the whales caught are sperm reference to our own American civilization. by the Postmaster-General. The President of whales, but they yield less than a third (in value) If Christian people had welcomed foreigners the company, Mr. Griscom, says: "It was of the products; one-third are right and bowmore warmly, had given them personal counsel deemed inadvisable to enter into competition, head whales, and they yield more than twoand help, had shown them affection instead of because, under the rates given by the act, a thirds (in value) of the products. There are standing aloof from them, had given them the transatlantic line of steamers, built in America 3 017 men engaged in the business, 59 per cent. warm right hand instead of disdainful looks, and sailing under the American flag, would not of whom are Americans. Five vessels, valued there might now be another story to tell. If pay. The establishment of a line of ships built at $65,000, were lost in 1889, and 22 lives were the Church will not welcome them the saloon in the United States and flying the American lost, all by shipwreck. As the employés are will, and the Church cannot complain. There flag would cost too much. We doubt whether nearly all paid by a share of the catch, there is is nothing more hopeful now than the temper- ships can be built in America as cheaply as no record of the earnings of the men engaged ance organizations maintained by our adopted abroad. The act allows but $4 per mile for a in this dangerous industry. - Philadelphia citizens of the first or second generation. first-class 20-knot liner for carrying the mails Ledger, Nov. 27. These should be warmly encouraged. "Re- on the outward voyage only. No provision i member that thou wert a stranger' was the made for the home voyage, because the word of Moses to the Hebrew people. Government believes that American-built INTOLERANCE IN THE LUTHERAN Countries. vessels on the lines established by the act The Salvation Army recently received could secure the return mails at a renumera- tribute from the German Government, by its tive figure. This supposition betrays want of official recognition as one of the protected familiarity with the subject. In the first place, foreign nations are very likely to discriminate religions, on the ground of its services in the in favor of vessels flying their own flag, and cause of temperance and morality. It is receivwould not send the mails on board American ing, the contrary treatment in Helsingfors, are taking This is saddening; but has it occurred to rected to be sent that way, and not always ships unless the letters were especially di- Finland, where the authorities measures to suppress its literature and to preRobert G. that we are forced to resort to de- then. That has been repeatedly demonstrated. vent the spread of its influence throughout the tectives and espionage to enforce even popular In the second place, under the provisions of the Lutheran Church is associated with the country. In the northern countries, where laws? We know a man in this city who spent State and controls the education, there is much weeks in disguise in Pennsylvania, some years ago, acting the spy on the Molly Maguires, opposition to intruding evangelistic efforts of just to enforce that popular law against murder. Has it not also occurred to the famous every kind. Baptists, Methodists, and others white-plume orator that there will be incalcullish themselves in the Protestant countries of " "ESPIONAGE.”—Mr. Robert G. Ingersoll remarks, in an interview in the Boston Investigator on Prohibition : The trouble is that when a few zealous men intending to reform the world endeavor to enforce unpopular laws they are compelled to resort to detectives, to a system of espionage. the act requiring that the vessels shall be of shall be run during the winter season, when a have had sore trials in their endeavors to estab ably less espionage required to stop the manu- there is no passenger traffic, would be too / Northern Europe. What appears to be intoler facture and importation of liquor than is now required to enforce the laws regulating the sale? There is more blackmail in one Assembly District of licensed New York City than in the whole State of Kansas.-New York Voice (Proh.), Dec. 3. burdensome." ance and persecution is defended on patriotic and legal grounds, the Lutherans claiming that their religious and moral work justifies itself in the elevation of the people, which they think is imperiled by irregular and irresponsible influences.-The Observer (New York), Nov. 26. Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. Beecher (Mr.) as I Knew Him. Third Paper. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. Bismarck (The Princess). The Countess Wilhelmina, Ladies' Home Jour., Dec. With Portrait. One of the series of Unknown Wives of Well-Known Men. Davis's (Jefferson) Daughter. Alice Graham McCollin. Ladies' Home Jour., Dec. With Portrait. Sketch of Miss "Winnie" Davis. Mozart-After a Hundred Years. Amelie Gere Mason. Century, Dec., 17 pp. Illus. A sketch of his life; the influence of his music, etc. O'Reilly (John Boyle) as a Poet of Humanity. George Parsons Lathrop. Century, Dec., 2 pp. Raphael-1483-1520, Italian Old Masters. Engravings and Notes by W. J. Stillman. Century, Dec., 9 pp. Illus. Severn (Joseph) and His Correspondents. William Sharp. Atlantic, Dec., 13 ̧PP. Specially interesting is the letter from John Ruskin, giving his first impressions of Venice. Sullam (Sara Copia); A Jewess of the 17th century. Menorah, Dec., 10 pp. Sketch of the life of a Jewess of Venice. Tennyson (Lord), A Day With. Sir Edwin Arnold. Forum, Dec., 13 pp. Gives some closer particulars of the habits and surroundings of the Poet-Laureate. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. American Characters in German Novels. Lida von Krockow. Atlantic, Dec.. 14 PP. Characteristics. S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. Century, Dec., 11 pp. With Portrait. The first part of a serial. Christmas Shadrach (The). Frank R. Stockton. Century, Dec., 8 pp. A Christmas story. Education, Thoughts About. Frederic Harrison. Forum, Dec., 8 pp. Speaking for England, modern education is almost a failure. Hetty, The Rapture of. Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote. Century, Dec., 3 pp. Illus. "Ibsenism. The Quintessence of," An Open Letter to George Bernard Shaw. William Archer. New Rev., London, Nov., 7 pp. Müller (Max), Language and. S. V. Clevenger, M.D. Amer. Naturalist, Nov., 7 pp. A criticism of Max Müller's position. Museum (The British) and the British Public. Dr. Garnet, New Rev., London, Nov., 10 pp. Painting, The Modern Art of, in France. Charles H. Moore. Atlantic, Dec., 11 pp. Pastel, The Golden Age of. Elizabeth W. Champney. Century, Dec., 11 pp. School (The), Need It Be a Blight to Child-Life? Dr. J. M. Rice. Forum, Dec., 7 Pp. Examples of teaching that show that the happiness of children may be preserved in spite of the hours of toil imposed. Torch-Beaver (A). Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge. Atlantic, Dec., II pp. Letters of Servetus Lupus, Abbot of Fernières, that tell of the actors and events of the 9th Century. Wulfy: A Waif. A Christmas Sketch from Life. Vida D. Scudder. Century, Dec., 5 PP. POLITICAL. Germany, French Feeling Towards. Camille Pelletan, Member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Forum, Dec., 18 pp. The nature of the antagonism between France and Germany. Italy and the Pope. Part II. Ex-Prime-Minister Crispi. N. A. Rev., Dec., 14 PP. Italy The Union of. His Excellency Spencer Walpole. New Review, London, Nov., 12 pp. Lord John Russell's work in the regeneration of Italy. Massachusetts Election (the), Significance of. Governor W. E. Russell. Forum, Dec.. 8 pp. Negro Problem (the), Thoughts on. James Bryce, M.P., Author of "The American Commonwealth." N. A. Rev., Dec., 20 pp. Quorum in European Legislatures. Theodore Stanton. With Letters from M. RELIGIOUS. Christianity in the First and Nineteenth Centuries. The Rev. W. Harrison, Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 11 pp. Japan, The Most Ancient Shrine in. Lafcadio Hearn. Atlantic, Dec., 16 pp. Describes a visit to Kitzuki of Izumo, a shrine never before visited by a foreigner. Leghorn, the Jewish Congregation of, The History of. Sabato Morais. Menorah, Dec., 8 pp. Messianic Prophecy. IV. Prof. J. M. Hirschfelder. Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 15 pp. Criticism of Prof. Workman's article, Messianic Prophecy-A Sequel. The Rev. Prof. Workman, Ph.D. Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 48 pp. Methodist Connexionalism. The Rev. A. M. Phillips, B.D. Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 13 pp. Describes Methodism as a solidarity. Paul's Theory of Christian Living. The Rev. B. Sherlock. Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 12 pp. Theology (New England), The Transition in. Alexander V. G. Allen, Atlantic, Dec.. 13 pp. A paper based on the teachings of Dr. Samuel Hopkins. SCIENCE. Animal Tissues, Quantity and Dynamics of. J. Lawton Williams. Amer. Naturalist, Dec., 12 pp. Appendicitis, Cases of, Report of. Joseph Price, M.D. Buffalo Med, and Surg. Jour., Dec., 12 pp. Appendicitis. Four Operations for. W. W. Keen, M.D. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., Dec., 6 pp. Appendicitis, The Operative Treatment of. Thomas S. K. Morton, M.D. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., Dec.. 25 pp. East-Indian Archipelago (the) (Timor and Rotti), The Permian Triassic, and Jurassic Formations in. August Rothpletz. Amer. Naturalist, Nov., 4 pp. Man and His Motives.-Is Man an Automaton? The Rev. Geo. Sexton, LL.D. Canadian Meth. Quar., Toronto, Oct., 13 pp. Argues that the evolutionary hypothesis is utterly untenable. Science and Immortality. Prof. Augustus Jay Du Bois. Century, Dec., 11 pp. Considers the scientific evidence of a future life; Spencer's system; John Fiske's position; Objections to a belief in a future life; the argument in favor of it. Simian Tongue (The). II. Prof. R. L. Garner. New Rev., London, Nov., 7 pp. Further experiments in monkey language. Zoology (American), Record of. J. S. Kingsley. Amer. Naturalist, Dec., 6 pp. SOCIOLOGICAL. Childhood. Viola Roseboro'. Century, Dec., 5 pp. Illus, A defense of children against the sentimentality that has falsified them. China, Missionaries and the Troubles in. The Hon. Charles K. Tuckerman. New Review, London, Nov., 10 pp. This article is not at all complimentary to the missionaries; the writer holds foreigners in a great measure responsible for the existing troubles. Competition (Unregulated) Self-Destructive. Aldace F. Walker, Chairman of the Commissioners of the Western Traffic Association. Forum, Dec., 13 pp. Competition is the death of trade, unless controlled by legislative power. Corporal Punishment, Is It Degrading? The Dean of St. Paul s, London. N. A. Rev., Dec., 11 pp. The writer believes that no form of punishment is better adapted to its purpose than that which Solomon recommends. Divine Kindness to the Poor versus Pew Rents. The Rev. B. F. Austin, M.A. Canadian Meth. Quar.. Toronto, Oct., 6 pp. Every principle of God's treatment of the poor is violated by the modern system of pew-rents. Gold Cure (My). Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. N. A. Rev., Dec., 2 pp. A statement prompted by the death of Col. John F. Mines. Jewish Persecution (The)-Its Financial and International Aspects. A. Leroy Jews (the) in Russia, the Persecution of, The Real Cause of. E. S. Mashbir. Menorah, Dec., 9 pp. Morality, The Relation to the State of. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman. Menorah, Dec., 6 pp. The point is that religion needs State aid to elevate the masses. Pensions, Degradation by-The Protest of Loyal Volunteers. Lieut. Allen R. Prison Management (Reformatory or Punitive)? Elijah C. Foster, Special Agent of the Department of Justice at Washington. Forum, Dec., 9 pp. Argues in favor of the reformatory management. Railway Rates. General Horace Porter. N. A. Rev., Dec., 10 pp. Discusses the prevention of rate-wars. Dec. Social Life in New York. Mrs. Burton Harrison. Ladies' Home Jour., Statistical Investigation (A Great). The Hon. Carroll D. Wright. N. A. Rev., Dec., 9 pp. The investigation is that which the Senate directed to be made in reference to the effect of tariff laws, etc., etc. War, The Benefits of. Admiral S. B. Luce, U.S.N. N. A. Rev., Dec., 12 pp. The view taken is that the settlement of international disputes by arbitration is a long way off, and that war has certain moral compensations. War, The Praises of. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic, Dec., 9 pp. Tells about the poets who have have sung the praises of war. Women's Clubs, The Work of. Alice H. Rhine. Forum, Dec., 10 pp. Workingman (The) and Free Silver. T. V. Powderly. N. A. Rev., Dec., 9 pp. Gives the reason that the workingman and the laborer are interested in the free coinage of silver. Christmas on the Old Plantation. Rebecca Cameron. Ladies' Home Jour., Dec. Kola Nut-Its Value, Present and Prospective. Nicholas Pike. Amer. Agriculturist, Dec. Illus. Ocean (The) from Real Life. John A. Beebe. Century, Dec., 8 pp. Illus. A personal narrative. 1 Secretary (The Private): His Life and Duties. New Rev., London, Nov., 14 pp. Refers to the private secretary of a British Minister. Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes. Unpublished Letters of General Sherman. Century, Dec.. 13 pp. These letters set forth his relations to the Vigilance Committee in 1856. Tilden Will (The). Surrogate, Nov, 1 pp. The thirty-fifth and thirty-ninth articles of the will of Samuel J. Tilden, which the Court of Appeals hold to be invalid. Training: Its Bearing on Health. No. III. Sir Morell Mackenzie. New Rev., London, Nov., 9 pp. Tree-Yuccas, The Land of. Charles H. Shinn. Amer. Agriculturist, Dec. Illus. Descriptive. Trusts and Powers. James C. Carter. Surrogate, Nov., 5% pp. Defines these terms in reference to wills. Wills (Old) and Cdd Wills. Surrogate, Nov., 2 pp. Worn-Out Land, Renovating. Prof. W. F. Massey, North Carolina Experiment Staticn. Amer Agriculturist, Dec. FRENCH AND ITALIAN. UNCLASSIFIED. Florence (Marine). A. V. Vecchi. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Oct. 1, pp. 22. Explanation of the excellent code of maritime laws which Florence was the first to have in the Middle Ages. Milan, The Cathedral of. Rossegna Nazionale, Florence, Oct. 1, pp. 15. Analysis of a recent work on the Cathedral, or Duomo as it is called, illustrated by Camillo Boito. Moltke and the War of 1870-71. Severino Zanelli. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Savoy (of) The Duke Charles Emmanuel I. Giovanni Boglietti. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Oct. 1, pp. 23. Apropos of the monument lately erected in Mondovi to the Duke who died in 1630. Voltaire, His Philanthropy. Camille Rabaud. Rev. Chretienne, Paris, Nov., pp. 21. Praising the philanthropic acts of Voltaire. GERMAN. POLITICAL. Postal Service (The) in Antiquity. Dr. Ess. 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