Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Arnold of Rugby, Educational Influence of. Goldwin Smith. Educational Rev.. Dec., 5 pp. Neumann (John N.), A Saintly Bishop. The Rev. Joseph Wüst, C.SS. R. Catholic World, Dec., 19 pp. With Portrait. Wadhams (Edgar P.), First Bishop of Ogdensburg, Reminiscences of. The Rev. C. A. Walworth. Catholic World, Dec., 10 pp. Whittier John Greenleaf). Harriet A. Sawyer. Chaperone, Nov., 4% pp. Illus. Reminiscences of the poet. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Antigone (The) of Sophocles and Shakespeare's Isabel. William L. Sheldon. Architectural Aberrations. Architectural Record, Dec., 3 pp. Architectural Boy Choirs in St. Louis. Frank Orff. Chaperone, Nov., 13 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Byzantine Architecture. Part III. Prof. Aitchison. Architectural Record, Dec., 16 pp. Cathedrals (French). Barr Ferree. Architectural Record, Dec., 11 pp. Catholics (The) and the Public-Schools. The True Significance of "Tolerari Potest.' Conde B. Pallin. Educational Rev., Dec., 7 pp. Chatterton. Arthur L. Salmon. Poet-Lore, Dec., 61⁄2 pp. An estimate of the work of the "Marvelous Boy." Colleges, English Composition in. Educational Rev., Dec., 7 pp. French Universities (the), The Reconstruction of. Gabriel Compayré. Educational Rev., Dec., 10 pp. How to Solve a Great Problem. F. M. Edselas. Catholic World, Der., 12 pp. Italy, Introduction of Gothic Architecture into, by the Cistercean Monks. A. Lotus (the), The Grammar of. Wm. H. Goodyear. Architectural Record, Dec., 18 pp. Mass (the), History of. Florence E. Wheatly. Chaperone, Nov., 21⁄2 pp. The Mass as a musical composition. Medicine, the Study of, The Collegiate Degree as an Evidence of Fitness for, L. Harrison Mellter, A.M., M.D. Bulletin Amer. Acad. Medicine, Dec. 10 pp. Medum. Camden M. Cobern. cent work. Memory (The) in Education. George T. W. Patrick. Educational Rev., Dec., 13 PP. Biblia, Dec., 6 pp. Review of Dr. Petrie's re Music in Chicago. George P. Upton. New England Mag., Dec., 17 pp. Illus. What has been accomplished, etc. Oxford B. A. Degree. What Does it Represent? Richard Jones. Educational Rev., Dec., 19 pp. Phrenology in the Public-Schools. Prof. R. A. Shellhous. Phren. Jour., Dec., 2 pp. Ürges the necessity of teaching phrenology. Physician (the), The Preliminary Education of. Special Preparatory Work Suggested by the Medical School in, The Value of the General Preparatory Training Afforded by the College as Compared with. T. F. Moses, A.M., M.D. Bulletin Amer. Acad. Medicine, Dec., 12 pp. Poets-Laureate (The). Charlotte Newell. Poet-Lore, Dec., 9% pp. From Sir William Davenant to Tennyson. Sculpture in America, The Outlook for. William Ordway Partridge. New England Mag., Dec., 17 pp. Illus. Studies, Coördination of. Charles De Garmo. Educational Rev., Dec., 16 pp. Whittier's First Printed Poems. New England Mag., Dec.. 4 pp. Cleveland, How (He) Was Elected. Belford's. Belford's Monthly, Dec., 8 pp. Civil Government, How It Is Taught in a New England High School. Arthur May Mowry, A.M. New England Mag., Dec., 5 pp. Congressional Reform. Caspar T. Hopkins. Overland, Dec., 13 pp. Suggests lines along which the needed reform may take place. Constitutions (Written), Origin and Development of. Political Science Qtly., Dec., 20 pp. Election (The): Its Economic Significance. Social Economist Dec., 91⁄2 pp. Ulster, Taxation of, Under a Home-Rule Parliament. George McDermot. Catholic World, Dec., 13 pp. Argues that the rights of the Protestant minority will not be disregarded by the Catholic majority. Victory (the), Some Causes of. George F. Parker, Belford's Monthly, Dec., 8 pp. The recent Democratic victory at the polls. RELIGIOUS. Brahmo Somaj (the), The Principles and Position of. Protap Chunder Mozoomdar. New World, Dec., 17 pp. Christianity, The Future of. William M. Salter. New World, Dec., 9 pp. Christians of Different Denominations, the Mutual Approach of, What May Be Done for. The Rev. John Campbell, LL.D. Pres. College Jour., Montreal, Dec., 51 pp. "Creed" (The) from St. Jolin. George S. Wheeler. New-Jerusalem Mag., Dec., 10 pp. St. John i, 1-5, 10-14, 16, 17, as a declaration of faith. Dogmas (Ancient) and Modern Belief. Howard MacQueary. Unitarian, Dec., 4 pp. Earth (The). How (It) Is Measured. Prof. J. Howard Gore. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Dec., 11 pp. Honan, Village Mission Work in. Murdoch Mac Kenzie. Pres. College Jour... Montreal, Dec, 9 pp. Ibn Ishak, The Fallacies of; or, Why Christianity Does Not Christianize Gentile Nations. National Pop. Rev., Dec., 19 pp. A very thorough discussion of the question raised by Ibn Ishak in the September Arena. Jesus, The Birth and Infancy of. Albert Réville. New World, Dec., 29 pp. A summary study of the chapters of the Gospels, which treat of the Birth and Infancy of Jesus. Jordon (the River), At: A Study of Joshua, Chapter III. H. Clinton Hay. NewJerusalem Mag., Dec., 7 pp. Lord's (The) Holy People. Williard H. Hinckley. New-Jerusalem Mag. Dec... 6 pp. Who are the Lord's Holy People? Messenger (The Lord's). John A. Hayes. New-Jerusalem Mag., Dec., 2 pp. Orthodoxy (Progressive). Egbert C. Smyth. New World, Dec., 12 pp. Its nature, etc. Presbyterianism and Education. The Rev. Principal MacVicar. Pres. College Jour., Montreal, Dec., 5% PP. Religion, Can It Be Taught in the Schools? Charles Lewis Slattery. New England Mag., Dec., 5 pp. The point made is that it is possible to teach religion effectively in the public-schools, by developing that part of a child's nature which alone can comprehend religious truth. Roman Catholic Church (the), The Present Position of. G. Santayana. New World, Dec., 15 PP. Servetus (Michael). Joseph Henry Allen. New World, Dec., 19 pp. The career and the theological offense of Servetus. Soul (the), The Monistic Theory of. James T. Bixby. New World. Dec.. 5 pp. SOCIOLOGICAL. Atkinson vs. Atkinson. S. N. D. North. Social Economist, Dec.. 9. pp. An examination of Mr. Edward Atkinson's plans and theories in the light of his. own teachings. Bastable's Public Finance. Prof. E. R. A. Seligman. Political Science Qtly.. Dec., 13 pp. Bimetallism-A Manchester Madness. Investor's Rev., London, Nov., 32 pp. Taxation, A New Canon of. Prof. E. A. Ross. Folitical Science Qtly., Dec. Asthma, The Treatment and Management of. Thomas J. Mays, M.D., Professor Bread (Our), Defects in. A Symposium. Lawrence Irwell and Emmet Dens-more, M.D. Social Economist, Dec., 9% pp. Criminality (Instinctive): Its True Character and Rational Treatment. S. A. K.. Strahan, M. D., Barrister-At-Law. National Pop. Rev., Dec., 11 pp. A paper read before the Anthropological Section of the British Association. Endometritis. Clinton Cushing, M. D., Professor of Gynecology. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., Dec., 5 pp. Eretria, Excavation at, by the American School, 1891. John Pickard. Amer. Jour. of Archæology, Dec., 19 pp. Immunity, The Study of. V. The Property of the Microbe of Hog-Cholera in the Organism of a Rabbit. M. Metchnikoff. Bacteriological World, Oct.. 3 pp. Life, Some New Physiological Views of. B. F. Palmer, LL.D. New York Med. Times, Dec., 2 pp. Music, The Psychology of. A. Mahaffy. Pres. College Jour., Montreal, Dec., 5 pp. Nervous Matter, What Is It? James A. Carmichael, M.D. New York Med. Times, Dec., 6 pp. Henry S. Osteogenesis and Osteoplasty in Crushing I.esions of the Extremities. Thomas. Skulls or Heads, Measurement of. John W. Shull. Phren. Jour., Dec., 4 PP. Stomach (the), The New Chemistry of. J. H. Kellogg, M.D. Bacteriologicaľ 14 pp. Investor's Rev., London, Nov.. Brazil, The Financial Prospects of. Investor's Rev., London, Nov., 5 pp. Cathedrals (the), The Builders of. Marshall S. Snow. New England Mag., Dec. 19 pp. Illus. Descriptive of Cathedrals. Coroner, the Office of, The Early History and Influence of. Prof. Charles Gross. W. Z. Ripley. Political Science Qtly., Dec.,. Ferry (A Mexican). A. D. Stewart. Overland, Dec., 12 pp. Illus. Descriptive. New York (Greater). Belford's Monthly, Dec., 23 pp. Peru, The Republic of. Major Alfred F. Sears. New England Mag., Dec,, 24 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive. Railway-Accounting. Thomas L. Greene. Political Science Qtly., Dec., 14 pp. Restaurants of San Francisco. Charles S. Greene. Overland, Dec., 12 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Russian Judiciary (The). Isaac A. Hourwich. Political Science Qtly., Dec., 36 pp. Sahara, A Bird's-Eye View of. Hilarion Michel. New England Mag., Dec., 6 pp. Strasburg. Wm. Hall. Chaperoue, Nov., 8 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Sun (the), The Land of. A City of the Sky. Christian Reid. Catholic World, Dec., 22 pp. Illus. Descriptive of the City of Zacatecas, Mexico. Vancouver's Visit in 1792 to the Bay and Peninsula of San Francisco. A Peninsular Centennial. W. H. McDougal. Overland, Dec., 7 pp. Historical. West (the), The Men Who Made, III. James Maitland. Belford's Monthly, Dec., 10 pp. GERMAN. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Tannhäuser in Song and Story. Erich Schmidt. Nord und Süd, Breslau, Nov., 37 pp. Tragic (The) and Tragedy. Veit Valentin. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Lit.- Africa, The Partition of. B. Lovett Cameron. Deutsche Revue, Breslau, 9 pp. Army Bill (the New), Provisions of. D. Preussische Jahrbücher, Berlin, Nov., 7 pp. Berlin Communal Reform. Rudolph Eberstadt. Preussische Jahrbücher, Berlin, Nov., 34 PP. Dissolution. Th. Barth. Die Nation, Berlin, Nov., 1 p. Suggests that the Army programme may bring about a dissolution. Dutch Property Tax (The New). Dr. Gustav König. Preussische Jahrbücher, Berlin, Nov., 14 pp. Franco-Russian Alliance (The) and the Triple Alliance in the Light of History. French Republic, The Centenary of, Celebration of. Ueber Land und Meer, An Average Man. Robert Grant. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. 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In the Senate, Mr. Hill introduces a Bill to repeal the Sherman Silver Law ......In the House, the Bill to stop the reduction in the Engineer Corps of the Navy is passed......Judge Gresham declares a part of Sec. 12 of the Interstate Commerce Act unconstitutional......At Cincinnati the arguments in the trial of Professor Smith for heresy are closed.... The National Prison Association visits the Annapolis Navai Academy, and afterwards holds its closing session.....Several lives are lost and much damage done by a tornado in Texas ....In New York City, the trial of Dr. Briggs is continued...... The provisions of the will of Jay Gould are made public; it gives the entire estate to his family, the great bulk of it being divided among his six children...... The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst answers the attack on him made by Police Superintendent Byrnes...... The speech of Mgr. Satolli at the recent Archbishops' Conference is made public. The Spanish Ministry resign......In connection with the Panama Canal investigation, it is expected that the French Government will order an autopsy on the body of Baron Reinach......It is said that cholera has reappeared in the Russian province of Poltava......The new Canadian Ministers are sworn in. Thursday, December 8. In the Senate, the Chilian Claims Treaty is ratified....In the House, Mr. Holman moves the recommittal of the Printing Bill; Attorney-General Miller's annual report is presented; Mr. Kilgore stops business by a point of order...... Telegraph operators on the Rock Island railroad strike, but trains continue to run.... .In a railroad wreck at Greenville, N. J., fourteen persons are injured ..In New York City, the prosecution closes its argument in the Brigg's case......Superintendent Byrnes replies to Dr. Parkhurst......Mr. Depew says he has sent his final answer to the engineers of the New York Central. The new French Cabinet states its policy, and the Chamber of Deputies, 306 to 104. votes confidence...... President Andrews of Brown University, addresses the International Monetary Conference at Brussels; M. Allard submits a proposal...... The British Agricultural Association passes a resolution favoring lower taxes on farming lands......Influenza prevails in Berlin. Friday, December 9. The Senate not in session......The House passes the Printing Bill......The House Committee on Military Affairs completes its consideration of the Army Appropriation Bill..... In New Orleans, two men are killed and a third fatally wounded; the outrage is charged to the Mafia......In New York City, Dr. Parkhurst replies to Superintendent Byrnes......Democratic Senators hold a conference with W. C. Whitney......Republican State leaders hold a conference...... Teachers in St. Paul's School, Garden City, go on strike. Bimetallists in the Monetary Conference express indignation at the obstruction offered by Great Britain......The India Currency Committee resumes its sittings in London...... Premier Ribot and Minister Burgeois appear before the Panama Canal Investigating Committee; M. Bourgeois, under a pledge of secrecy from the Committee, promises to produce certain judicial documents. Saturday, December 10. The Government crop report for December is issued......It is said that a vigorous effort will be made in the House of Representatives to repeal the Sunday-closing provision of the World's Fair Bill....A $100,000 library is presented to Fairhaven, Mass., by the children of H. H. Rogers, of New York City, in memory of a dead sister.... .It is announced that the State of New York has formally assumed the care of all its insane poor, except those in New York and Kings Counties......In New York City, at a dinner of the Reform Club, speeches are made by President-elect Cleveland and others; Speaker Crisp had prepared and given out a speech, but is not invited to speak......The Fayerweather will contest is reopened......A number of the Spree's passen. gers arrive on the Etruria......There is a sharp advance in Western Union and Manhattan Railway shares. Several witnesses testify before the Panama Canal Investigating Committee; a sub-committee is appointed to examine documents; the autopsy on Baron Reinach's body is begun.... The Committee of the Monetary Conference discusses three plans, but no decision is reached...... Senor Sagasta forms a new Spanish Cabinet......The German Reichstag begins debate on the first reading of the Army Bill, Senator Allison tells the Monetary Conference that the American delegates might accept a different ratio than 16 to 1 between gold and silver......The Portuguese Minister of War resigns; the stability of the Cabinet is threatened. Monday, December 12. In the Senate, Mr. Vest's resolution to open the Indian Territory is discussed the Anti-Option Bill comes up, but action_is deferred; nominations by the President are received as follows: Person C. Cheney, of New Hampshire, to be Minister to Switzerland; G. M. Lambertson, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; J. W. McDill (reappointment), to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner; P. S. Grosscup, to be United States Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; C. C. Cole, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia......In the House, Speaker Crisp is enthusiastically cheered by both parties on taking his place; the Army Appropriation Bill is introduced.....The twelfth annual session of the Ameri can Federation of Labor begins in Philadelphia......It is announced that Philip D. Armour will present to the city of Chicago an institute for technical and industrial instruction, to cost $100,000 and be endowed for $1,400,..Ignited oil, from a broken tank, floating on Miller's Run, does great damage......New York Central officials say the difficulty with the engineers is settled. The French Chamber invests the Panama Committee with judicial powers. .....In the Reichstag the Chancellor announces that Germany will adhere to the gold standard. Mr. Gladstone calls a special Cabinet meeting to discuss the Home Rule Bill, Tuesday, December 13. In the Senate, the Indian Territory resolution and the Anti-Option Bill are discussed......In the House, the Weil and La Abra Claim Bills are passed. ......At a conference of Repúblican Senators, the so-called doubtful Western States are discussed......Secretary of State Foster replies to the strictures of Minister Foster, of Canada, upon the President's message...... Robbers board a train in West Virginia and kill one passenger......The Cincinnati Presbytery decides. 31 to 27, to suspend Professor Smith from the ministry. The New York State Dairymen's Association meets at Cobleskill....In the city of New York, reports to the Chamber of Commerce urge a Federal quarantine system......The New York Yacht Club decides to accept Lord Dunraven's challenge...... At a dinner of Columbia College Alumni, President Low announces a $10.000 gift to the library. M. Rouvier, the French Finance Minister, resigns, and M. Tirard is appointed......Senator Jones speaks in the Monetary Conference... 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