METAPHYSICAL.

Elements of Psychology. By George Croom Robertson. Edited from notes of lectures delivered at the college, 1870-1892. By C. A. Foley Rhys Davids, M. A. The University series. 268 pp. Indexed. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.00.

This and its companion volume, "Elements of General Philosophy," are prepared by collating the notes of lectures by the late Prof. George Croom Robertson of University College, London. This volume is intended to "afford not merely an introduction to psychology and also to philosophy, but an introduction to philosophy by way of psychology— more especially to philosophy under the aspect of theory of knowledge (epistemology)." Prof. Robertson taught from the standpoint of Scotch metaphysis Bain) with some knowledge of German.

Genius and Degeneration. A psychological study. By Dr. William Hirsch. Translated from the second edition of the German work. Uniform with "Degeneration." Large 8vo, $2.60; by mail,

$2.79,

See review.

Power of Thought, The. What it is and what it does. By John Douglas Sterrett. With an introduction by J. Mark Baldwin. 320 pp. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.47.

In many respects a timely and valuable work.. Mr. Sterrett seems to have done what many psychologists would like to be able to do, i. e., write a book which interests people generally without repelling them by scientific terms, and phrases unfamiliar to the lay mind; and at the same time, not to fall into that other pit of popular scientific writers, the condemnation of having cheapened science by watering it. Extract from Prof. Baldwin's Introduction. Schopenhauer's System in its Philosophical Significance. By William Caldwell, M. A., D. Sc. Shaw Fellowship Lectures, 1893. 538 pp. Indexed. $2.70; by mail, $2.90.

See review.

HISTORY.

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Bill Nye's History of England. From the Druids to the reign of Henry VIII. Illustrated by W. M. Goodes and A. M. Richards. 195 pp. With an Appendix. 12m0, 90 cents; by mail, $1.07. The death of our foremost humorist prevented the carrying on of his remarkable history beyond the marriage of Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn. Lovers of Bill Nye's pages will regret this, because he promised to illuminate several dark passages in the annals of England. The work developed sufficiently, however, to promise one of his strongest books. The dates and events are sufficiently correct, but William's most generous critics are compelled to admit that he has colored many facts to suit his own high purposes. Philadelphia Bulletin. Children's Crusade, The. An Episode of the Thirteenth Century. By George Zabriskie Gray. With a Frontispiece. 242 pp., with appendices. 12mo, $1.10 by mail, $1.22.

This history of the "Children's Crusade" appeared in 1870. It gives a useful summary from accessible sources of the crusade, but lacks in original research and critical accuracy.

Colonial Days in Old New York. By Alice Morse

Earle. 312 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.02. The author is an authority on this subject, and has heretofore done much good work in giving new life to many of the old customs and traditions of Colonial days. In the present volume she gives an interesting account of the manner of life led by the Dutch set

tlers in New Netherland. How they wooed and wed; how they educated their children; how they housed, clothed, fed and amused themselves; how they spent Sundays and holidays; how they punished wrongdoers On these and other subjects she gives us much valuable information. These old Dutch settlers, indeed, are well worth studying. There was a sturdiness, an honesty about them which made them notable figures in their day. No one can read this chronicle of their customs and habits without feeling an interest in them. So different was their manner of life to ours, so surprising in many ways does it seem to us! More charming than a work of fiction is this lucid account of these old New Yorkers. Here we have life, real life, and not a mere phantasma.

N. Y. Herald.

Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1559, The. By Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson, author of "The Old Régime," etc. In two volumes. With illustrations. Library Edition, 360, 373 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $2.60; by mail, $2.86.

A reprint of a work first published in 1885. As in her other works on French history Lady Jackson has skimmed a large number of books and presents the results of her reading in a fluent style of interest to the general reader for whom it is intended. The student will find many blunders, but nearly all are of a sort which only the student will mind. This edition is illustrated by photo-etchings from prints and photographs.

History of France, A. By Victor Duruy. Abridge 1 and translated from the seventeenth French edition. By Mrs. M. Carey. With an introductory notice and a continuation to the year, 1896. By J. Franklin Jameson, Ph. D. In two volumes. Fully illustrated. 376-712 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $2.20; by mail, $2.47.

In France, this is accepted as the best short history of France ever written. Prof. A. D. White, a competent authority, has pronounced it the best summary history of France known. It has been translated by a skilled hand and the last twenty-five years narrated in twenty-seven pages. The profuse illustrations of the French edition are replaced by page portraits and scenes. There are no maps. Prof. Jameson prefaces a sketch of Victor Duruy.

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Horrors of Armenia: The Story of an Eye-witness. William Willard Howard. 62 pp. 10 cents; by mail, 12 cents. This awful but true story of the horrors of massacre in Armenia is in part, reprinted from letters and in part new, the whole being used as a plea for subscriptions to aid in the removal of Armenians from Turkey in behalf of which a committee has been organized.

Island of Cuba, The. A Descriptive and Historical Account of the "Great Antilla." By Andrew Summers Rowan and Marathon Montrose Ramsey, B. S., A. M., author of "A Text-Book of Modern Spanish.' 12mo, 90 279 pp. Indexed. cents; by mail, $1.00.

A brief compilation of current facts on Cuba, descriptive, historical, commercial and political, with appendices on various subjects. A bibliography is included. The net result is a convenient book of reference.

Jewish Law of Divorce According to Bible and Talmud, The. With some references to its development in Post-Talmudic Times. By David Werner Amram, M. A., LL. B. 224 pp. Indexed. 12mo,

$1.50; by mail, $1 61. Professor Amram's work is conscientiously done, and he has apparently exhausted the abundant sources of information at his command. In these days of inquiring into origins and close research to find out the beginnings of things this contribution to the knowledge of the first indications of an important social institution has a scientific value that will be appreciated by students of race history, and to the legal profession the book will prove of especial interest as throwing light on the evolution of the laws regulating the relations of the sexes.

Philadelphia Telegraph.

Law of Civilization and Decay, The. An Essay on History. By Brooks Adams. New Edition, 393 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.50; by mail, $1.65. Mr. Adams is regarded as something of a pessimist, and this book does not detract from that reputation. After a survey of the period from the Romans to modern civilization, he is of the opinion that "when a highly centralized society disintegrates, under the pressure of economic competition, it is because the energy of the race has been exhausted. Consequently, the survivors of such a community lack the power necessary for renewed concentration and must probably remain inert until supplied with fresh energetic material by the infusion of barbarian blood." The author does not favor a single monetary standard, and the chapter entitled, "Modern Centralization" deals with this question with a bias in favor of silver. He says that the policy of Nathan Rothschild and Samuel Lloyd, in England, made bankers "the masters of all commerce, industry and trade. When the mints had been closed to silver, the currency being inelastic, the value of money could be manipulated like that of any article limited in quantity, and thus the human race became the subjects of the new aristocracy, which represented the stored energy of mankind.' N. Y. Herald.

Lecture on the Study of History, A. Delivered at Cambridge, June 11, 1895. By Lord Acton, LL. D., D. C. L. 142 pp. with notes. 12mo, 57 cents;

by mail, 65 cents.

The topics discussed in the text by Lord Acton, and, in the notes, by his overwhelming list of quoted authorities, are very numerous; but, of course, are all relevant and all interesting. London Academy. Making of the British Empire, The. (A. D. 1714-1832.) By Arthur Hassall, M. A. The Oxford Manuals of English History. Edited by C. W. C. Oman, M. A., F. S. A. With maps. 149 pp. Indexed. 16mo, 45 cents; by mail, 50 cents.

The subject, in Mr. Arthur Hassall's competent hand, resolves itself into a luminous survey of the facts and forces which shaped and determined the political development of England between the accession of George I. and the passing of the first Reform Bill. We presume that the intention is to add a volume on the expansion of English authority in various parts of the globe during the Queen's reign. It is none the less a little disappointing to find in a manual with the present title that the consolidation of our Indian Empire and the growth of our colonies during the last sixty years are alike passed over in silence. Mr. Hassall, on the other hand-apart from this question of bringing his book up to date by a final chapter-has done excellently well, for his sketch of the Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, the younger Pitt's home and foreign policy, and the attitude of England during the French Revolution, to cite a few typical points, is both lucid and singularly well-in

Memphis and Mycenae. An Examination of Egyptian Chronology and its Application to the Early History of Greece. By Cecil Torr, M. A. 74 pp., with an appendix. 8vo, $1.26; by mail, $1.35. Mr. Torr's book is an interesting contribution to the literature of the Egypto-Mycenaean controversy which has sprung up during the last few years, and will be read by many who, for various reasons, take a lively interest in the relations which are said to have existed between the Egyptians and the early Greeks. It is too much to expect that it will close the controversy; on the contrary, we believe that it will reopen it in many quarters. But as the work of a clear thinker and a logical reasoner, who states his facts, proofs and deductions honestly and lucidly, it possesses a value greater than that of almost any other on the subject. It consists of four chapters on Egyptian chronology, one chapter on the connection of Egypt with Greece, an appendix on the vases from Thera, and a table of Egyptian dynasties and kings as given by Manetho. London Atheneum.

Napoleon. By T. P. O'Connor, author of "Some Old Love Stories." 416 pp. 12mo, $2.40; by mail, $2.55.

A series of essays and extracts which endeavor to sum the impressions Napoleon has made on many witnesses and historians. The pages of the book alternate from Mr. O'Connor's summary to profuse extracts, and the general impression is that of a good newspaper review, which gives a full and instructive abstract of a work, only here two-score works are thus presented.

Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816 to 1860). By Chas. H. Haswell. Illustrated. 581 pp. Indexed. 8vo, $2.25; by mail, $2.48.

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It is a strange, and, in many respects, a painful story which is told by "Adeline, Countess Schimmelmann," in the pages of her artless biography. early life the Countess, who is the daughter of a Holstein nobleman, attracted the notice of the Empress Augusta, and at the age of eighteen was appointed a maid-of-honor at the Court of Berlin. The Empress Augusta is described in these pages in an attractive light, not merely as a woman of great force of character and intellectual tastes, but of remarkable moral courage and dignified simplicity of character. The book is not chiefly concerned, however, with the affairs of the Imperial Court, but rather with the spiritual awakening of the Countess to the unredressed sorrows of the poor, and the service to which in consequence she felt herself summoned by an inward call. Her enthusiasm of humanity sent her forth as an Evangelist to the rough fishermen on the shores of the Baltic and to the Socialists in the slums of Berlin. The story of her work along the Baltic coast is modestly told but most impressively, and it brought down upon her-through the wrath of the drink-sellers and the indignation of her own relatives, who regarded her as righteous overmuch-sufferings of a kind which, at first sight, seem almost incredible at this time of day. London Speaker.

Famous American Actors of To-day. Edited by Frederic Edward McKay and Charles E. L. Wingate. Illustrated with portraits. 399 pp. 12m0, $1.50; by mail, $1.70.

See review.

Famous Violinists and Fine Violins. Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and Reminiscences. By Dr. T. L. Phipson, author of "Scenes from the Reign of Louis XVI," etc. 254 PP. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.46.

Dr. T. L. Phipson's somewhat desultory notes and anecdotes on "Famous Violinists and Fine Violins," contain a good many things that will amuse violinists and some that may instruct them. A chapter on the early violinists in England is perhaps the most valuable part of the little book, and there are a number of more or less authentic stories of Viotti, Paganini, De Bériot, and other artists of the past. The author sets his face against the collector's craze and gives some practical hints as to the functions and position of the soundpost, the bridge, etc. His spelling of proper names, or the printer's reading of his manuscript, is decidedly original, and the statement that Lady Hallé is of Norwegian origin will no doubt surprise no one more than the distinguished artist herself. London Times.

In 1848, Lockhart abridged his life of Scott in seven volumes to two. This is a republication of this abridgement in two volumes. With a preface by the editor who has made no changes.

Memoirs of Baron Thiebault, The. (Late Lieutenant in the French Army.) Translated and condensed by Arthur John Butler. In two volumes. With portraits. 491, 438 pp. Indexed. 8vo, $5.25; by mail, $5.65.

The translator, Mr. Arthur John Butler, to whom we are also indebted for a version of the Memoirs of Gen. Marbot, explains that, in this instance, the five volumes of the original work have been compressed into two, not because the excluded matter was uninteresting, but because the conditions of the book market in England and the United States render a five-volume book unsalable. The rule adopted by the translator has been to retain, as far as possible, the scenes in which Napoleon himself took part, and those connected with the Peninsular War. The present version concludes with the disappearance of Napoleon from the history of Europe, although Baron Thiebault, who was born in the same year as Bonaparte, did not die until 1846. There is no doubt that these memoirs, which first saw the light nearly fifty years after their author's death, are of great historical value. Being twenty years old when the States General were convoked, their author is able to give a vivid picture of the wild and whirling years from '89 to '94, and also an eyewitness's account of the creditable work done by the young republic in protecting her frontier. In this respect his book is superior to Marbot's. N. Y. Sun.

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, his Private Secretary.. To which are added an account of the important. events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon's Surrender to the English, and of his residence and death at St. Helena. With anecdotes and illustrative extracts from all the most authentic sources. Edited by R. W. Phipps. New and revised Edition. With numerous illustrations. In two volumes. 408, 434 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $2.20; by mail, $2.51.

A reprint in two volumes of the edition published in 1885 in London, in four volumes The paper is thin but the type is clear.

My Long Life. An Autobiographic Sketch. By Mary Cowden-Clarke, author of "The Concordance to Shakespeare," etc. Illustrated. 276 pp. Indexed. 12m0, $1.50; by mail, $1.60.

See review.

Paderewski and His Art. By Henry T. Finck. Illustrated by Thomas J. Fogarty. 48 pp. 8vo, paper, 25 cents; by mail, 30 cents.

Mr. Henry T. Finck is the musical critic of the New York Evening Post, a warm personal friend of M. Paderewski, and devoted to Wagner and the modern view of music. This sketch has the advantages and defects of the writer's equipment and environment.

Pioneers of Science in America. Sketches of their Lives and Scientific Work. Reprinted with additions from the Popular Science Monthly. Edited and revised by William Jay Youmans, M. D. With portraits. 508 pp. 8vo, $3.00; by mail, $3.26.

We have in this volume sketches of the lives of men, all or most of whose scientific work was done on this side of the Atlantic, within what are now the United States. When we observe that the series includes men like Guyot, who did not die until 1884, we are at a loss to understand the omission of Prof. Benjamin Peirce and Prof. Asa Gray, each of whom was a man of far more usefulness and distinction than were many of those who are here commemorated. This is, really, the only objection to be made to the book before us, which, in other respects, fills a place that needed filling, and is likely to be widely read. Among the especially interesting chapters are those allotted to Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John James Audubon, William Cranch Bond, Samuel Finley Morse, John Ericsson, and Alexander Dallas Bache. N. Y. Sun.

Story of a Busy Life, The. Recollections of Mrs. George A. Paull. Edited by J. R. Miller, D. D. With a portrait., 275 pp. 12mo, 75 cents; by

mail, 82 cents.

A very helpful and cheering book. Every discouraged mother and wife, every poor struggling girl, every person to whom defeat seems inevitable, might well take new heart from reading this biography of a victorious woman. From the Publisher's Notice. William Henry Seward. By Thornton Kirkland Lothrop. American Statesmen. Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. 444 pp. Indexed. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.03. See review.

attempt to reach Upernavik from the "Advance," Kane's ship, in 1854, first appeared in 1860, was reissued in 1867 and is now reprinted from the plates of the latter edition.

.Edge of the Orient, The. Illustrated. 288 pp.

See review.

By Robert Howard Russell. 12mo, $1.50; by mail, $1.65.

Camps, Quarters and Casual Places. By Archibald Forbes, LL. D. 344 PP. 12mo, $1.35; by mail, $1.47. In " Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places," Archibald Forbes treats of a number of subjects in his usual style. Though written, in most instances, for newspaper use, these sketches possess a good deal of literary merit, and whether the author chats about Burmah or Balaclava, a Scottish salmon river or a Paris café, if not invariably accurate, he is always interesting. N. Y. Sun. In the South Seas. Being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumatus and Gilbert Islands in the course of two cruises on the yacht "Casco (1888) and the schooner " Equator" (1889). By Robert Louis Stevenson. 370 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.23.

Herein is gathered the author's characteristic account of experiences and observations during his prolonged travels amongst the islands of the South Pacific, during 1888 and 1889. The sketches are printed in book form for the first time, having been selected from a series which was published periodically. As every one will remember, Mr. Stevenson took this journey in the hope of restoring his fast failing physical strength, in which he was doomed to sad disappointment. The book is divided into four parts and deals with the story of life in the South Seas. There is a map of the islands illustrating the three cruises which were made by the author, whose admirers were legion and who will no doubt be glad to have these sketches in the form here given.

Philadelphia Telegraph. In the Volcanic Eifel. A holiday ramble. By Katharine S. and Gilbert S. Macquoid. With fifty-five illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid, R. I., and three maps. 342 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $2.25; by mail, $2.47.

The volcanic Eifel lies between the river Rohr on the west and the Morelle valley on the east or broadly speaking, between the Luxemburg Ardeanes and the Rhine from Remagen to Coblenz and the Morelle from Coblenz to Trever. About Gerolstein near its center is a group of extinct volcanoes. In this volume the region, its folk-lore, its history and the usual incidents of travel are blended together in a light description with numerous illustrations. Lazy Tours in Spain and Elsewhere. By Louise Chandler Moulton, author of "Swallow Flights," etc. 377 PP. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.25. This agreeable volume, the outcome of travel in pursuit of pleasure, gives not only interesting glimpses of the chief cities in the land of romance and chivalry, but carries the reader into Southern Italy, to Rome, to Florence, to Switzerland, and among the " cures of France, Germany and England. The writer's literary vagrancy is invested with all the charm of her racy style. Philadelphia Press. Little Tour in Ireland, A. By an Oxonian (S. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester). With illustrations by John Leech. Third edition. 255 pp. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.22.

The book purports to contain the story of a trip through Ireland by two young Oxonians, and is the joint work of Dean Hole and John Leech. Many of Leech's characteristic drawings are scattered through the volume, and add greatly to its value. The Dean had a warm regard for the artist, and has dedicated each edition of the work to him. Many graphic pic

tures of Irish life are to be found in the book, and there is hardly a page which is not enlivened by the author's playful humor. N. Y. Herald.

Through Egypt to Palestine. By Lee S. Smith. Fifteen full page illustrations from photographs taken by the author. 223 pp. 12mo, 90 cents; by mail, $1.0I.

Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95. My hundred thousand miles of travel through America, Australia, Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon and the Paradises of the Pacific. By the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M. A., author of "Thoughts for the Times," etc. In two volumes. With two portraits. 340, 331 pp. 12mo, $3.75; by mail, $3.95. Amongst ecclesiastics at large, there are few more agreeable rattles than Mr. Haweis, and in “Travel and Talk we have his lively impressions of men and manners, places and people, up and down the globe. These two volumes represent ten years of wandering, and of platform and pulpit experiences in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Ceylon, and those beautiful isles of the sea which Mr. Haweis rapturously terms the "Paradises of the Pacific." Let us say at once that it is the kind of book which on one page or another appeals to every man's mood and most women's curiosity, and does so in both instances without taxing in the smallest degree the least highly-organized of brains. There is quick-witted observation, much personal gossipsometimes of a rather twaddling kind, but often of interest-and facts, occasionally great but usually small, which though scarcely fresh are crisply stated. London Speaker.

Travel-Pictures from Palestine. By James Wells, D.D., author of "Christ and the Heroes of Heathendom," etc. Illustrated by Arthur Twidle. 200 pp. 8vo, $2.25; by mail, $2.44.

"Travel-Pictures from Palestine," consists of a series of chapters originally written for the Sunday Magazine, and since carefully revised, on some of the "helps which the traveller and the explorer are now offering to the Bible-student." Dr. Wells has twice visited the Holy Land "in company with experts in Oriental life and lore," and his descriptions are full of actuality in themselves and well adapted to illustrate the realities of Scripture life and history. The numerous illustrations are also a great help to the intelligent appreciation of his text.

SCIENCE.

London Times.

Evolution, and Man's Place in Nature. By Henry Calderwood, LL. D., F. R. S. E. Second Edition. Illustrated. 316 pp. Indexed. 8vo, $2.93; by mail, $3.12.

In the three years which have elapsed since the first publication of his "Evolution, and Man's Place in Nature," Professor Calderwood has examined more closely into the evidence of naturalists and physiologists as to evolutionary problems in general and the contrast of human and animal intelligence in particular. He now gives us, in what is almost a new book, his personal view of this evidence, some details of which are illustrated by excellent drawings. His main conclusion remains substantially unalteredthat, while purposive action is characteristic of life from its first appearance, a new phase is entered upon when we pass from sensibility and instinct to animal (perceptive) intelligence, and still another when we reach human (reflective) intelligence.

London Speaker. Primer of Evolution, A. By Edward Clodd, author of "The Story of Creation," etc. With illustrations. 186 pp. Indexed. 16m0, 57 cents; by mail, 64

cents.

Injustice is done to this excellent little work by

calling it a primer. It is an abridgment rather than an elementary first book, and it is suited to educated readers or advanced students rather than beginners. The story of creation is admirably told; it is the story of the changes of matter, ethereal, gaseous, liquid, solid, and living. The beginning is beyond us. Matter, force, and energy may possibly be one; the transition between inorganic and organic energies may be possibly found in the electric group; having the same ingredients, the difference between the inorganic and the organic must lie in the mixing, the greater complexities of the organic constituting difference in degree, but not in kind. Spiritual matters are passed over by our author with scant consideration; the duty of theology, he says, is to readjust itself to what science proves to be true, otherwise it is doomed; in the end when it is seen that theories about gods and all other spiritual beings have nothing whatever to do with man's duty to his fellows, he will occupy himself with that duty N. Y. Post.

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POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. Growth of the French-Canadian Race in America, The. By John Davidson. Publications of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 180. 23 PP. 12mo, paper, 25 cents; postpaid. In this essay, the author examines into the truth of the statement of Malthus, that population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years. The French-Canadian race is taken as an example to illustrate this rule because it is an isolated, homogeneous body of which it is possible to observe the whole true increase, and hence to establish from such an examination a standard which shall not be

arbitrary even in appearance. Publishers' Weekly. Cold Facts. (Revised.) A Complete History of the

causes that have made paupers of the American people. By Casca St. John, "C. H.," author of "Why Are We Poor?" The Nation Library. 104 pp. 12mo, paper, 10 cents; by mail, 12 cents. This complete history of the causes that have made paupers of the American people contains all the usual charges against the “ money-power," banks, specie payments and the "Crime of 73." Financial Procedure in the State Legislatures. By E. L.

Bogart. Publications of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 181. 46 pp. 12mo, paper, 25 cents, postpaid.

The purpose of the essay is to explain the general features of the executive and legislative process by which money is raised and expended for State purposes throughout the United States. The plan adopted is to trace the course of financial legislation in New York as a typical state and note wherein the others differ from or resemble it. Publishers' Weekly. By Edward StanFourth edition, revised. 533 Pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.24. This standard and familiar history of presidential elections first appeared in 1884 and each election since a new chapter has been added. For each election, the method of nomination is described, the issues outlined and returns presented.

History of Presidential Elections, A. wood.

with an equally remarkable power of clear and cogent expression. From the Publisher's Notice. Uncertainty as a Factor in Production. By Edward A. Ross, Ph. D. Publications of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 183. 119 pp. 12mo, paper, 25 cents, postpaid. Taking up in turn mining, farming, fishing, breeding, transportation, manufacturing, the author shows the irregularity in the product of like exertions or identical processes, or in the exchange value of equal volumes of products. He then explains how this variability results in uncertainty which causes such extensive derangements in economic production. In conclusion he enumerates seven effects which uncertainty has upon the more variable branches of production. Publishers' Weekly.

Union Pacific Railway, The. By John P. Davis. Publications of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 182. 91 pp. 12mo, paper, 35 cents, postpaid.

One of the most pressing political questions of the day is what the government is to do to secure the payment of the rapidly maturing Pacific Railroad loan. Dr. Davis discusses the question in all its bearings, explaining in particular the advantages and disadvantages of the various proposed plans of settlePublishers' Weekly.

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POLITICAL ECONOMY. Appreciation and Interest. A Study of the Influence of Monetary Appreciation and Depreciation on the Rate of Interest, with Applications to the Bimetallic Controversy and the Theory of Interest. By Irving Fisher. Publications of the American Economic Association. Vol. XI. No. 4. 100 pp. 8vo, paper, 57 cents; by mail, 64 cents. A study of the influence of monetary appreciation and depreciation on the rate of interest, with applications to the bimetallic controversy and the theory of interest. Publishers' Weekly.

Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States, An. By Charles B. Spahr, Ph. D. Library of Economies and Politics. Edited by Richard T. Ely, Ph. D., LL. D. 184 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.10; by mail, $1.22.

Dr. Spahr's essay is written for the instruction of the instructed classes. While he presents many statistics and tables he is careful to draw from them conclusions that coincide with the common observations of common people for, he says, he has come to believe that social statistics are only trustworthy when they show to the world at large what common observation shows to those personally familiar with the conditions described." Dr. Spahr's book is concise and logical: it appeals to the reason and deserves to be read by all thoughtful men. It can not fail to have a powerful influence on the thought of the time. From the Publisher's Notice. Introduction to Public Finance. By Carl C. Plehn, Ph. D.

364 pp. Indexed. 12mo, $1.44; by mail, $1.56. Intended to be an elementary text book, giving a simple outline comprehensible to any one familiar with the general principles of political economy. It is divided into three parts on expenditure, revenue, debt, and financial administration. Few statistical tables appear-the author deems them "wearisome" -but references to authorities are intended to aid independent study.

Seven Financial Conspiracies which have Enslaved the American People. By Mrs. Sarah E. V. Emery. American series. III pp. 18mo, paper, 10 cents; by mail, 12 cents.

This pamphlet dedicated "to the enslaved people of a Dying Republic" describes the machinations of the money power. It was first issued in 1892 and 420,000 copies have been issued.