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order to carry the State, and this would not | and it did it. Third party Prohibition is a
have been possible without making concessions political fraud and a moral fraud, and it is
that would certainly have estranged other dying slowly of inanition everywhere. Every
voters. It is suggested that if the Republicans active and progressive State repudiates it.
are going to try to win in 1896 they had better As a policy it is beaten; no progressive State
adopt the Prohibition platform. As the Re- will longer have it, and it will be confined to
publican party is now sadly in need of a new the limping, decaying, provincial or stagnant
set of principles more acceptable to the people States which have adopted it. It is the policy
than those embodied in the term " McKinley- of cant, fanaticism, and moral weakness; it is
ism," it is no doubt ready to receive proposals. the policy of sham, humbug, and hypocrisy,
It is not very likely, however, that the over- of charlatanry in government, of fraud in
tures of the Prohibitionists for a fusion will be politics as in 1884, of industrial lethargy and
entertained. The Republicans would like to commercial and moral decay. It is in error
capture the votes of the Prohibitionists, but as to the whole function of government and
the price asked is more than they can afford to the whole basis of moral advancement.
pay.

Troy Press (Dem.), Nov. 19.-The Prohibition party was more of a political potentiality in 1884 than at any other time in its history. Then it was powerful enough to contribute none the less decisively if indirectly to the defeat of Blaine for President. Under the leadership of St. John and the inspiration of a moral issue, the party compelled the attention of the newspapers and speakers of the other parties. It was a force to be reckoned with. The failure of Fisk in 1888 to hold the balance of power in New York, or equal the Prohibition vote of the previous year, was a cruel disappointment. Five years ago the Prohibitionists reached their high water mark in this State, and they have not recovered it. On the showing in the Presidentia! tabulation, they have not gained thirteen thousand votes in the great Empire State in eight years. They have been overshadowed and outnumbered this year in the country by the Populist party, a mere baby in years.

Chicago Evening Journal (Rep.), Nov. 19.— Local Prohibitionists called upon Senator Peffer, of Kansas, yesterday to learn his views regarding a combination of the Populist and Prohibition parties. It is not known just how the long-bearded Kansan stands in the matter, and it is not of great importance, anyhow, for he is not the party; but it may be said that an alliance of Prohibitionists and Populists would

finish them both in short order. The fusion of

different minor parties into one organized body has never been successful, and never will be. Each hobby-rider thinks his should be the dominant plank in the new platform, and disintegration with disgrace is sure to follow. There is no collection of political shreds and patches which will make a whole garment. There is no natural connection between the Populists and Prohibitionists, and the introduction of the liquor question into the new party's consideration of policy is not likely to be consummated. The dreamers must come

RESULTS OF PROHIBITION. Montreal Witness, Nov. 17.-Kansas, with Prohibition and 100,000 more people than Texas, has but one penitentiary and 996 prisoners. Texas, with saloons and 100,000 less people than Kansas, has two penitentiaries and 3,000 convicts. The bank managers of Maine have just reported that of the 661,000 people of that State, 146,666 have $50,278,452 deposited in the savings banks, so that Prohibition cannot have ruined business. A glance at Local Option in operation in Illinois shows that the Prohibition town of Pullman, with a population of 11,000, gets along admirably with a police force of but two constables in all. The Dakota Farmer says: "Notwithstanding the efforts of the liquor-dealers to the contrary, drunkenness has been almost wiped out many a former moderate drinker has quit the habit, and, above all, a host of young men have started on a sober and industrious career, under three years' influence of Prohibition. The drink bill of the two Dakotas dropped off 70 per cent. the very first year, and has been growing materially less ever since, and no one has been made the poorer thereby but the saloon-keepers, brewers, and distillers."

Kansas.

KANSAS.

of the Church to the public schools. There is a well-defined division on this subject, Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland heading one side, and Archbishop Corrigan the other. The former have again triumphed, and the resolutions adopted by the conference are by plain implication a declaration in favor of allowing Catholic children to attend the public schools where expediency seems to demand it. The following are the resolutions:

FIRST RESOLVED, To promote the erection of Catholic schools, so that there may be accommodation in them, if possible, for all our Catholic children, according to the decrees of the third Plenary Council of Baltimore and the decision of the Holy See.

SECOND-RESOLVED, That as to children who at present do not attend Catholic schools, we direct, in addition, that provision be made for Sunday-schools, and, also, by instruction, on some other day or days of the week, and by urging parents to teach their children the Christian doctrine at their homes.

Sunday and week-day schools should be under the lay teachers, and, when possible, by the members of direct supervision of the clergy, aided by the intelligent religious-teaching orders.

The important point here is the same as that we pointed our several months ago in the Papal decree "tolerating" the Faribault and Stillwater compromise; namely, that it is an admission that secular education and religious education may be divorced, and each carried on separately, one by the common schools and the other by the Church schools. This admission is exceedingly important as we look at it, and indicates that the liberalizing process in the RomaniCatholic Church, under the present Pope, is still making headway against all opposition from within; and among other things that it seems to have developed on American soil is an unwonted freedom of speech and of pen even in the criticism of ecclesiastical superiors. In other words, America is Americanizing the Roman Catholic Church much more rapidly than the Church is Romanizing America; which fact is greatly to the advantage both of America and of the Church.

THE SALVATIONISTS.

New York Voice (Proh.), Nov. 24.-The New York Sun, Nov. 23.—The Congress of liquor-dealers have been pulling the wires in the Salvation Army is a very impressive gathThe proposition for a Constitutional ering. Though in numbers it is not so great Convention was one they had hopes of carry- as the Christian Endeavor Convention, which ing in the recent election. They have been lately attracted so much attention here, it is defeated in this, but the report is now issued even more striking and significant. The Christhat the Governor-elect, Lewelling, elected by tian Endeavorers are the militia of the army of the People's party, is an opponent of the law, the Lord. By comparison, the Salvationists and will not secure its enforcement. The Gov-are the regularly enlisted soldiers, always enernor has power, under the statutes, to appoint a Board of Police Commissioners to the number of three for any first-class city, who are provided with authority to enforce the law if the local officials are derelict. But the Governor may refrain from appointing them if he so wishes, and in this way the return of the The reported intention of the Governor-elect not to appoint any Commissioners is resulting already, it is said, in THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND PRO- the return of many saloons on the street-cor

to political grief separately, not in one body of variegated principles.

HIBITION.

A RATHER EARNEST PROTEST.

saloon is made easy.

minds of

"We

gaged in warfare against the devil and his works. Of the existence of the devil they have no doubt. He is not to them merely a poetic personification of abstract evil and all the forces of wickedness, but an actual being with a definite form, who moves about to destroy "We believe in a personal the souls of men. devil," said Mrs. Booth at the meeting at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening. believe in him because we have seen him." They believe that the devil is the author ners of the large cities. If this is true it is a and embodiment of sin, and not simply sad commentary on the claims of the People's the figure of speech which he is in the party that, while silent in their platform, they so large a part of modern Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Rep.), Nov. 16.will settle this question right when they come theologians and modern Christians. They The delusion has burnt itself out; the Repub-into power. Kansas is the first State in which believe that he has his abode in hell, and lican party has found out that it has been han- that party achieved power, and if they leave that thence he sallies forth at the head of dicapped, not helped, by trying to conciliate that State worse than they found it, they will his diabolical legions to drag the souls of men the third party Prohibitionists; it has lost an have perpetrated a grosser outrage than either down into the bottomless pit. They believe, immense German Republican vote in the great of the two old parties. We sincerely trust also, that salvation is real, that heaven is a cities of the East and the West, and in the that the reports are of a piece with the other place and not merely a state. They believe rural counties of Iowa and Kansas. The prac- lying done by the press about the People's that their God has His awful throne and that tical effect of third party Prohibition has been party, but the friends of Prohibition cannot numberless angels gather about Him in unto weaken the only great party that has ever be too jealously watchful there as well as in ceasing adoration and with pure and perfect tried to legislate against the evils of the Iowa. delight. They believe in the golden streets, liquor traffic and to place in power the in the gates of jasper, in the harps, and the Democratic party that never hesitates to hand trump of the last day of judgment. They do not the saloon party a blank sheet of paper and a try to explain away all these as images created pencil and invite the liquor traffic and its saby the imagination, as concrete expressions of loon agent to draft a satisfactory statute. THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOPS. abstract truths incomprehensible by the simhibition in 1884 proved itself a political fraud. New York Voice, Nov. 24.-The conference ple ones of humanity. They accept them as It defeated Mr. Blaine for the Presidency. It of Archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, facts and as actualities. Heaven and hell are employed all its efforts in States where its ef- held in this city last week, was one of import-as real to them as the earth which they see with forts would hurt the Republican party, and it ance to all Americans. The Tribune says of their natural eyes, and to them this mortal life purposely abstained from efforts in other it: "It is plain to all now that no more im- as compared with the everlasting life to come States lest it should hurt the Democratic par- portant affair has taken place in the history of is of no importance except as the threshold of ty. That is, its object was to turn the the Church in America than this conference." the other. Hence the Salvationists are banded Government over to the Democratic party, The subject of special interest was the relation together for no other purpose than to fight

Pro

RELIGIOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THANKSGIVING.

the

THE COMET.

SCIENTIFIC AND HUMOROUS ASPECTS.
New York World, Nov. 20.-Is Biela's comet

may

the devil. For his victims they have only j But it was no small matter to reconcile | Canton, destroyed $15,000,000 worth of that pity; for the devil himself only bitter the people to the poles, which the geomancers drug. The destruetion of the railway was not hatred. During the year past the soldiers of declared would disturb the powers of the air caused by popular opposition to it, for ten the Salvation Army, according to the statistics and bring calamity upon the country. In years later another road was opened by the of Commander Booth, have captured from the Hunan, for example, 10,000 persons came to China Railway Company, a purely Chinese devil more than 32,000 souls. They have sent gether and burned over 2,000 poles as an in- organization. This is now the only line in no one of his victims to an earthly prison, for timation of the feeling in that province. The operation in China, but more than 1,000 they do not regard themselves as auxiliaries of Government discreetly abandoned the enter- miles of railway are projected and have rethe police, acting as a society for the preven-prise there and Hunan is one of the two or ceived imperial sanction. The Tientsin, Tongtion of crime by directing against it human three provinces which are still without tele-ku & Kaiping line, opened in 1888, is a part of a penalties. The penalties with which they graphic communication. Hunan is the much longer system, which is being pressed to alarm the sinner are the everlasting torments strongest anti-foreign province of China, and completion as rapidly as the available funds of hell. was the original source of much of the will permit. trouble which was experienced by foreigners in the interior last year. Whether the opposition to the telegraph in Hunan was inspired by superstitious fear of the consequences, or by the ruling gentry, who hate foreign This is one of the most significant words in The wonderful development of the telegraphic cat comet itself. Then strange events would New York Journal of Commerce, Nov. 23. innovations of any kind, is perhaps uncertain. on time? If it isn't there may be trouble a week from to-night. The earth might become a wildhuman speech. A thank offering, whether from service shows, however, that the officials are the lips or the open hand, is always a graceful quite able to carry out an enterprise in spite of happen. Other cheerful possibilities are the service. No matter how rude the words or how popular superstitions; and in the case of rail- smashing of ath of its inhabitades. We the small the gift, the tribute, if genuine, is sure of a ways, they even go so far as to remove family scalding to death of its inhabitants. gracious acceptance. In the bestowment of alms graves, which is doubtless the most serious escape with the larceny of our moon. the giver is a benefactor and the receiver is cause of offense to popular prejudices imagine is all of that, and may raise trouble. How near Nov. 21.-A devil in the sky. Biela's comet under a sense of obligation; but in the outflow able. At Tientsin there is a telegraph school will it come to earth, or will it miss us? Alof gratitude, however expressed, the one gives where operators are trained and educated. only that which he owes, the other receives no Chinese characters, of which there are about ready astronomers disagree as to its path and more than his due. In acts of charity he is most 10,000 in use for business purposes, are wandering tramp of the universe should get identity. What would happen if the mysterious blessed who opens the fountain, but in thanks- transmitted by numbers according to giving who shall say which has the higher bliss, Morse system. But a far better system is within reach of this mundane sphere? the one who lights the censer or he who rejoices that of Mr. C. Paulsen, who has prepared omers in doubt about the celestial tramp. Nov. 22-Comet, where at? Wise astronin the fragrance of the offered incense? And a code in which each character is repre- Some say that it is coming, others that it is this is a sacrifice that is always timely; it has sented by an English word, and it is this sys- receding. And all observe that it may not all seasons for its own; the smoke from its tem which will doubtless be adopted in future. altars is a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by The operators are divided into several classes, be Biela's wanderer. They guess that if the night, and each alike is a joy to the watching the lowest grade receiving 10 taels a month, comet's tail swings near our moon there may eye. When the heart is aglow the mouth and the others 14, 24, and 45 taels respectively. be a deluge that will make oceans out of dry never tires of the service, and the ear is never A tael being worth about $1.27 gold, the pay astronomers generally agree that the thing itlands. But as the comet has no tail the weary of the song. It is not foreign in any is liberal enough. As a whole the telegraph self will not even dent the earth if it strikes land, nor wholly a stranger in any human system is profitable. The Government owns breast. It is the same voice to all this day. some lines which are not paying expenses; but and we will feel it no more than if it were the "Be ye thankful," is the admonition to every those which are doing the best and most prof-passing of a zephyr or the dropping of a rose.. ear. There is no one listening who has not itable business have become private lines, in received some blessing. In fact, there is not a accordance with the policy of the Government. cup which is not full to-day if the eye was not The first railway in China was opened in 1876. too dim to note its contents. Some have their This was the Shanghai-Woosung road, about 10 vision so dazzled with the glittering baubles miles in length. It continued to run for about they seek that they count not the real good a year, when it passed out of existence. The they have, and others have missed the sight old roadbed can be seen about Shanghai still, because of brimming tears. Look again, doubtless because the Chinese could not very thoughtless one! The patient hand that well carry it away, as they did everything else. has filled the cup is waiting to take The circumstances were peculiar. The foreign the thank offering which is due. Look ers in China thought that if they could get a more closely, thou mourner with the falling railway in actual operation the Chinese would tears! It was a real blessing which came to be quick to recognize its advantages and that thee in the shape of a heavy burden, a bitter opposition to further extension of such lines disappointment, a sad bereavement, and the would cease. So they secured the right of way loving Father is waiting on thee just now for ostensibly for a carriage road, and had it all the offered incense! Those who can be jubi-graded and the rails actually laid before the lant should ring out the golden bells. Those who must sing in a minor key should not let the song die out in a wail. The Giver of all Good is waiting on His children to-day for a festival strain. And let none forget the widow and the orphan, and the destitute, for the open hand must go with the thankful heart. They who divide the feast with the poor bring the richest flavor to their own repast. It is not a day for sorrow or grief. The eyes and the heart should be turned with gratitude to the brooding heavens, and an answer of acceptance and peace will descend on such Thanksgiving. TELEGRAPHS

Chinese realized what was going on. It was a purely experimental road, with a gauge of 22 feet and an engine of nine tons, only adapted for passenger traffic. It encountered no opposition from the people, who patronized it from the first, and it earned $r,000 over operating expenses during the second mouth of its existence. But the Chinese officials were disposed to resent the means adopted by the British promoters of the road to establish it without Government sanction. It happened just at that time that the British Minister, Sir Thomas Wade, was anxious to get some additional ports up the Yangtse River opened to BritAND RAILWAYS IN ish trade. The Chinese did not care to CHINA. open the ports, but they very much wanted Romyn Hitchcock in the New York Engi- the railway. So they said, we will open the neering News, Nov. 17.-Formerly we heard ports if you will let us buy the railway, and the a great deal about the superstitions of the bargain was accordingly made. The road was Chinese, which were supposed to be inimical purchased by the Chinese Government for to everything foreign. There is in truth a 285,000 taels, and the transfer was made in strauge mixture of superstition and sound October, 1877. It was then doing a profitable sense in the Chinese character. "Fung shui" business. But immediately it was torn up, the is still a powerful influence in the land. The engine and cars were taken to pieces and the people were very much disturbed by the first whole plant sent off to Formosa to get it out telegraph poles; but inasmuch as the Govern- of the way. Thus did the Chinese resent the ment wanted the telegraph, the popular oppo- imposition played upon them by the foreignsition to it was overcome--sometimes, it is ers, at a cost of considerably over a quarter of true, only after a struggle-and there are now a million dollars. In a similar manner did they 17,000 miles of wire crossing the country also resent the attempt of the British to from its Lost remote boundaries. Over introduce opium in defiance of the laws $6,000,000 has been expended on these lines. of the country, when the Commissioner Lin, at

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New York Morning Advertiser, Nov. 21.The horse reporter of the World has evidently escaped from his stall and is browsing in the fence corners of astronomy. Like all men who go into a new field and attempt to compete with thoroughbreds, the horse reporter is distanced. The World published yesterday a particularly silly story about the comet that is now speeding toward the earth. stead of reasoning from the standpoint of modern science, and governing himself by ordinary common sense, the horse reporter insulted the intelligence of his readers by publishing the views of astronomers of the Middle Ages and conveying the impression that this planet of ours is in imminent danger of collision with a vast, gaseous body wandering in space, and that the result of such a meeting must be the alternate freezing and scorching of the earth and its inhabitants. Of course this is all nonsense. The horse reporter ought to be bridled and bitted and not permitted to talk about an important scientific event of which he knows nothing.

THE DESCENDANT OF CHRISTOPHER COLUM

BUS IN WANT.-We find in the Madrid journals of the 28th of October the following: Only to-day was it known why Christopher Columbus, Duke of Veragua, the descendant and representative of the great navigator, was not present at the commemorative festivities at Huelva. The Duke, who was considered a very rich man, was some months ago ruined by a financial crash. His creditors have pushed him into bankruptcy, and a few months before the Columbian anniversary the personal property of the last descendant of the immortal discoverer was sold at auction. The Duke of Veragna, thinking that he would not cut a good figure, preferred not to take part in the official solemnities in honor of his ancestor. He retired to a small village where he endureshis poverty with true Castilian pride. He is fifty years old. Three years ago he was Minister of Religion in the Liberal Sagasta Ministry. He has expended a considerable amount in attempts to improve agriculture in Spain.Rome Diritto.

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Index to Periodical Literature.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Isabel, Lady Henry Somerset. Frances E. Willard. Godey's Mag., Dec., 2 pp. With Portrait.

Wilson (The Late Sir Daniel). George Stewart. Dominion Illus. Monthly, Montreal, Nov., 4 pp. Sketch of the late President of the Toronto University. Wright (George Frederick), Sketch of. Pop. Sc., Dec., 6 pp. With Portrait. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART.

Books and Their Makers. The Rev. D. S. Schaff, D.D. Hom. Rev., Dec., 4 pp. Brabazon Waring. Complete Novel. Julian Hawthorne. Godey's Mag., Dec., 61 pp. Illus.

Columbus, The Character of. Thomas R. Bacon. Yale Rev., Nov.. 13 pp. The character of Columbus as set forth in the recent works of Justin Winsor and John Fiske.

Comédie Française (the), The Green-Room of. Frederick Hawkins. English Illus. Mag., Nov., 10 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive.

Ethical (The) and the Etymological. Prof. T. W. Hunt, Ph.D., Litt.D. Hom. Rev., Dec., 5 pp. The relation of language and morals.

French Printer (An Old). H. C. Macdowall. Macmillan's, London. Nov.. 5 pp. On Robert Estienne."

Hardy (Thomas), The Novels of. Sewanee Rev., Nov., 24 pp. A favorable estimate of Mr. Hardy's work. Madonnas (Noted). E. C. Martin. scriptive.

Demorest's Mag., Dec., 4 pp. Illus. De

Memory, The Education of. Sewanee Rev., Nov., 12 pp. New York as a Literary Centre. Douglas Sladen. English Illus. Mag., Nov., 8 pp. With Portraits.

Paine (Thomas), Mr. Conway's Life of. Westminister Rev.. London, Nov., 14 pp. Review of The Life of Thomas Paine; with a History of His Literary, Political, and Religious Career in America, France, and England. By Moncure D. Conway.

Rousseau's Theory of Education. A. E. Street. Macmillan's London, Nov., 8 pp.

Spanish Fiction (Modern). Sewanee Rev., Nov., 11 pp.

Tennyson. I. Edmund Gosse. II. Herbert Paul, M.P. New Rev., London, Nov., 20 pp.

Tennyson (Lord). John Reade. 10 pp.

Dominion Illus. Monthly, Montreal, Nov.,

Tennyson. Blackwood's, London, Nov., 19 pp.
University (The New) for London. J. Spencer Hill. Westminster Rev., London,
Nov., 9 PP.

University Extension College (The First), in Reading, England. Walter Palmer.
University Extension, Nov., 7 pp. Descriptive of the work, etc.
Women (Our Young), The Symmetrical Development of. C. E. Brewster. Pop.
Sc., Dec., 6 pp. Deals with their moral development; and combats the idea that
young girls should be kept in ignorance of the evils that threaten them.
POLITICAL.

Constitutional Revision. The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. National Rev., London, Nov., 12 pp. On the Englishi political outlook.

Elections (The Recent): Lessons Derived from Them, Westminster Rev., London, Nov., 8 pp. Refers to the recent elections in England. Elections (Old). Lord Brabourne. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Nov., 16 pp. England and Ireland, The Financial Relation of. W. J. O'N. Daunt. Westminster Rev., London, Nov., 10 pp.

Ethics as a Political Science. Arthur T. Hadley. Yale Rev., Nov., 14 pp. Free Trade a Variable Expedient. Frederick Greenwood. National Rev., London, Nov., 17 PP.

Immigration (Alien). Col. Howard Vincent, C.B., M.P.

New Rev., London,

Nov., 13 pp. Bears upon the immigration of destitute aliens. Ireland, The New Departure in: Success or Failure? 1. Justin McCarthy, M.P. II. T. W. Russell, M.P. New Rev.. London, Nov., 16 pp. A discussion of Mr. Morley's policy.

Presidential Election (The) in the United States. Albert Bushnell Hart. New Rev., London, Nov., 12 pp.

RELIGIOUS.

Carey, Forerunners of.-II. A. J. Gordon, D.D. Miss. Rev. of the World, Dec., S PP.

China, Our Mission in. Sewanee Rev., Nov., 15 pp. Points out lines of Church work in China.

Demoniacal Possession, Modern Instances of. Prof. E. P. Evans. Pop. Sc., Dec., 10 pp. The attitude of the Roman Catholic Church towards belief in demoniacal possession.

Egypt, The American Mission in. The Rev. D. L. Leonard. Miss. Rev. of the World, Dec., 9 pp.

Hell, An Historical Study of. Part III. Christian Doctrines. W. W. McLane,
Ph.D., D.D. Hom. Rev., Dec., 9 pp.

Idolatry in Israel. The Rev. J. T. Wright, Ph.D.
Sermon preached at Prohibition Park.

Hom. Rev., Dec., 5 pp.

India, the Educated Classes of, The Attitude of, toward Christianity. The Rev.
J. E. Robinson. Miss. Rev. of the World, Dec., 5% pp.

Jesuits (the). The General Chapter of. National Rev., London, Nov., 9 pp.
Jews (the), The Gospel Among. M. A. B. Howard. Miss. Rev. of the World,
Dec., 21⁄2 pp.

Leyden (Pastor), The Story of. William Elliot Griffis, D.D. Hom. Rev., Dec.,
3 pp. Some characteristics of Pastor John Robinson.
Morality, The Sanctions of, in Their Relation to Religious Life.

Westminster

Rev., London, Nov., 14 pp. The writer argues that the "Sanctions" of morality are not supernatural; that morality must be founded on an impregnable basis, and not on changing and decaying creeds.

Moslem Women, The Status of. According to the Teaching of the Qurán. The Rev. E. M. Wherry, D.D, Miss. Rev. of the World, Dec., 8% pp.

New Testament (The). Prof. W. Milligan, D.D. Hom. Rev., Dec., 4 pp. Exegesis of Heb. ix. 16, 17.

Renan and Christianity. Richard Holt Hutton. National Rev., London, Nov., 9 pp.

Retribution (Future), How Far Should Appeals to Fear of, Enter Into Preaching? Bishop H. W. Warren. Hom. Rev., Dec., 4 pp.

Schools, The Place of, in Mission Work. F. D. Phinney. Miss. Rev. of the World, Dec., 4 pp. Urges the necessity of schools.

Spirituality, an Element in True Exegesis. The Rev. J. M. Campbell. Hom. Rev., Dec., 6 pp. Spirituality an essential requisite in the discernment of spiritual truth. Theodore of Canterbury. Sewanee Rev., Nov., 13% pp. An historical paper bearing upon the place that belongs to S. Theodore in founding the Church of England. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.

Cannibalism (Prehistoric) in America. The Rev. A. N. Somers.

Pop. Sc.. Dec., 4 pp. Cholera, Protective Inoculation for. S. T. Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D. Pop. Sc.. Dec., 5 pp.

Chorea, A Case of, Associat d with Mitral Insufficiency, Successfully Treated with Digitalis. Jeff. C. Davis, M.D. Southern Med. Record, Nov., 5 pp. Cocaine, The Uses and Abuses of, with Reference to Mucous Membranes, Especially. A. G. Hobbs, M.D. Southern Med. Record, Nov., 9 pp. Deafness, and the Care of the Ears. Abram Mills Fanning, M.D. Pop. Sc.. Dec. 6 pp. Dentistry (Modern). C. L. Hildreth, D.D.S. Demorest's Mag., Dec., 5 pp. Illus. Decriptive.

Dreams, The Study of. Frederick Greenwood. New Rev., London, Nov., 15 pp. Glacial Discoveries (Recent), in England. Pop. Sc., Dec.. 4 pp. With Map. Descriptive of the map prepared for Prof. Wright's work on Man and the Glacial Period.

Individualism. William Schooling. Westminstor Rev., London, Nov,, 7 pp. The nature and development of individuality.

Magic, From, to Chemistry and Physics. XVIII. New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. A. D. White, LL.D. L.H.D. Pop. Sc., Dec., 15 pp.

Nickel and Its Uses. J. T. Donald, MM.A. Pop. Sc., Dec., 5% PP.

Paralysis (Pseudo-Hypertrophic), A Case of, with Peculiar Movements of the Upper Extremities. E. C. Spitzka, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Nov., 4 pp. Illus.

Petrie Papyri (The). Prof. Mahaffy. New Rev., London, Nov., 13 pp. Descrip.. tive of the papyri discovered by Mr. Petrie.

Renal Disease, The Frequency of, Among the Insane. E. D. Bondurant, M.D.
Jour. Nervous and Mental Di::ase, Nov., 18 pp.

Sexual Hypochondriasis and Perversion of the Generic Instinct. Irving C. Rosse,
A.M., M.D., F.R.G.S. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Nov., 17 pp.
Snails (Land), Protective Devices and Coloration of. Henry A. Pilsbury. Pop.
Sc., Dec., 6 pp. Illus.

Syringomyelia, A Case of. W. C. Krauss, M.D. jour. Nervous and Mental
Disease, Nov., 10 pp.

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SOCIOLOGICAL.

Anarchy, The Relation of, to Civil Liberty. Prof. Jacob Cooper, D.D., D.C.L. Hom. Rev., Dec., 6 pp.

Chartism, Curiosities of. London Society, Nov., 8 pp,

Chinese and Medieval Gilds. Frederick Wells Williams. Yale Rev., Nov., 16 pp. Descriptive and Historical.

Economics: VI. Part II. Consumption. Edward T. Devine. University Extension, Nov., 7 PP.

Economists (Modern), Fallacies of. Arthur Kitson. Pop Ss., Dec., 15 pp. Farm-Unrest in New England. Clarence Deming. Yale Rev., Nov., 10 pp. The conditions causing farm-decadence in New England.

Indian Problem (The), from An Indian's Standpoint. The Rev. H. H. Emmett. Hom. Rev., Dec., 3% pp.

Lepers (the Outcast Siberian), How I Found. An Interview with Miss Kate Marsden. English Illus. Mag., Nov., 3 PP.

Parisian Street Urchin (The). Mary Negreponte. Westminster Rev., London. Nov., 3 pp.

Value, The Ultimate Standard of. J. B. Clark. Yale Rev., Nov., 17 pp. The author sums up his consideration of the subject with these words: The value of a thing is the measure of the effective service that it renders to society as a whole.

Women, A New Union for. H. Morgan Browne. Westminster Rev., London,
Nov., 7 PP.
A proposition to establish a Union among women for the better-
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Wednesday, November 16.

In the Buffalo election cases, both sides agree to drop civil proceedings; certificates to be given to the Republicans, Quimby and Emerson......Ivan Peteroff, the census-agent who gave false information in the Bering Sea cases, is discharged...... Grand Master-Workman Powderly delivers his annual address before the convention of Knights of Labor in St. Louis...... Congressman Alfred C. Chapin files his resignation with the Secretary of State.... .In New York City, the Catholic Archbishops of the United States meet in conference and afterwards hold a reception at the Catholic Club................. Trunk-line railway presidents decide on World's Fair passenger-rates.. The Mayor appoints nine Commissioners of Education, all men......Edmund Titus, a wealthy retired merchant, commits suicide.

Some of the American delegates to the International Monetary Conference arrive in London......An exciting debate on the Press Bill occurs in the French Chamber of Deputies...... François, the Anarchist, is remanded in London, for extradition to France......At Tarragona, Spain, nine convicts are killed while attempting to escape from prison.

Thursday, November 17.

Three hundred mechanics and day-laborers at Homestead leave the strikers andre taken back by the Carnegie Company......Governor Flower reorganizes the Civil Service Commission of the State of New York, replacing Messrs. Poste and Sleicher by E. Prentiss Bailey, editor of the Utica Observer, and William D. McKenstry, of Watertown......A tornado at Red Bud, Ill., kills two persons, injures many others, and wrecks thirty-five buildings..... Four persons are killed and fifteen injured by a powder explosion in Arkansas......The Interstate Commerce Commission makes decisions in seven cases involving the long and short clauses of the law...... Adjutant-General WiNiams presents his report to General Schofield......A New York syndicate buys the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in Brooklyn......In New York City, the annual dinner of the New York Jewelers' Association takes place at Delmonico's......A park policeman is arrested for bringing false charges against a woman whom he annoyed......The steamer Philadelphia arrives from Venezuela with a political refugee on board, having sailed from La Guayra without clearance papers.

In the French Chamber, debate on the Press Bill is continued; Premier Loubet speaks effectively...... The Socialist Congress in Berlin rejects a resolution binding all Socialists to cease work on May Day......Cholera continues to increase in virulence in St. Petersburg.

Friday, November 18.

H. L. Loucks, of South Dakota, is elected President of the Farmers' Alliance......More of the Homestead strikers return to work......The trial of Sylvester Critchlow, the first of the strikers charged with murder, is begun at Pittsburgh..... Captain John G. Bourke, 3d Cavalry, is killed in a court-room at San Antonio, Texas, by a United States deputy marshal......Destructive tornadoes occur in several States...... In New York City, many business men express their disappointment at the high railroad rates fixed for visitors to the World's Fair.

The French Chamber adopts the Premier's motion to proceed to the consideration of the Press Bill by sections......The Socialist Congress adopts a resolution of opposition to State Socialism......The Queen arrives at Windsor Castle from Balmoral...... Frank James, Conservative member of Parliament for Walsall, is unseated for bribery.

Saturday, November 19.

A severe storm extends throughout the country, causing some loss of life and much damage to property......The Hazel Dell Colliery caves in, injuring several men, one mortally...... Pinkerton men testify at the trial of Critchlow......The coinage of Columbus souvenir half-dollars is begun at the Philadelphia mint......The Chicago Great Western Railroad Company proposes to issue $70,000,000 of new securities.

The Press Bill as amended is passed by the French Chamber of Deputies. ..A Deputy and an editor fight a duel, in which the Deputy is wounded in the arm......A dynamite bomb is exploded in front of the residence of Count Folgosa, president of a committee to receive the King and Queen; the house is considerably damaged...... Hamburg arranges for a jubilee on the 25th inst. in celebration of deliverance from cholera.

Sunday, November 20.

The annual report of Mr. Rusk, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is made public......The Homestead strike is officially declared off" by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers......It is said that President-elect Cleveland has requested Edward Murphy, Jr., to retire from the contest for the United States Senatorship, and that Mr. Murphy deciined to do so......In New York City, there is a subway explosion on Fifth Avenue.

Senator Allison arrives in London......Two steamers go ashore on Long Point, Lake Erie.

Monday, November 21.

Ex-strikers make a rush to get back their old places in the Carnegie mills at Homestead, but many are disappointed......The annual meeting of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is held in Baltimore.. Henry Root's patent on cable-roads is declared invalid by the Supreme Court......The temperature falls below zero at many points in the Northwest..... President Roberts of the Pennsylvania Railroad discusses the latest agreement of the railroad presidents; the president of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railroad, defends the proposed passenger-rate to the World's Fair......In New York City the Continental Congress of the Salvation Army begins its sessions..... New York astronomers say the comet is going away from the earth, and that it is not Biela's.. ......Charles Stewart Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce, writes from Japan on the great interest taken there in the Chicago Exposition.

The French Chamber votes for a Parliamentary inquiry into the affairs of the Panama Canal Company......News is received that French troops have entered Abomey, the Dahomans having evacuated it......It is announced that Italy will not withdraw from the Latin Union. Tuesday, November 22.

In the first case against the railroads and Chicago packers for alleged ratediscrimination in violation of the Interstate Commerce Law the defendants win......Commodore Folger's report on the work of the Ordinance Bureau is made public, and shows great progress in the manufacture of guns, powder, and armor...... Strikers returning to work at Homestead are required to sign an agreement not to join any labor organization......Floods in the Northwest cause loss of life and damage to property...... Four men are killed and three fatally injured in a railroad collision near Grand Island, Neb...... The first iron-casting made in America-a kettle made in 1642, at the Saugus Iron Works-is presented to the city of Lynne, Mass......It is announced that the Illinois Steel Company's steel-rail plant at South Chicago will shut down December 15......In New York City, the Congress of the Salvation Army holds its second day's session......Mayor Grant announces that he will make no more appointments.

The International Monetary Conference opens in Berlin......The German Reichstag is opened: Emperor William delivers his speech from the throne ......The Panama Canal Investigating Committee is chosen by the French Chamber of Deputies...... A judgment in favor of Mrs. Deacon is given in the French Court of Appeals.

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