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Adams, Charles Francis, his Memoirs of Jol?n Quincy A 'aras, Vol. III., critical notice of, 231-235.
Anderson, R. B., his Historical Sketch of l. the Discovery of America by the Norse
men in the Tenth Century, critical notice of, 194-196.
Bancroft, George, his History of the United States, Vol. X., critical notice of, 424 - 432.
Cairnes, J. E., his Some Leading Princi ples of Political Economy newly ex pounded, critical notice of," 214 - 220.
Clarke, E. H., his The Building of a Brain, critical notice of, 185 - 188.
Comtum, article on, 237-281 ? four pos sible foundations for a philosophical sys tem, 237 ? the essence of Comtism, 238
? no philosophic system at all, 239 ?
Comte's youth and education, 240 ?
his intellectual pedigree, 240 ? Bacon,
Hume,. Diderot, and Gall, 241 ? his association with St. Simon, and debt to
him, 242 ? his marriage and insanity, 243 ? his professorship, why he lost it, 244 ?
helped by Englishmen at Mr. Mill's suggestion, 245 ?
pure and pas sionate friendship for Madame Clotilde de Vaux, 245 ?
inability to live with oth ers, 246 ? his intellect neat, tidy, nar row, 246 ? his character, 246 ? sum
mary of his doctrine, ? the three dog
mas' 247 ? Hierarchy of Beings, and of
Sciences, 249?Statical Law of the Under standing, 250 ? Law of the Three Stages, 251?Philosophv of the Unconscious, 252?positive religion, 255-266 ?faith and altruism, 255 ? woman's place in the scheme 258 - 262 ?
positivist calen dar, 262 ?
sacraments, 263 ? hierarchy,
264 ?Comte's political ideal, 266-271 ? three classes of society, priesthood, patriciate, proletary, 266 ?
knighthood, 267 ? no civic rights, 267 ? no conceal
ment, no anonymous writing, 268 ? tre mendous power of priesthood, 269 ?
thirty bankers and triumvirate, 269 ?
Comte's economic socialism, 270 ? mar
riage, 271?lack of unity in Comte's system, 272 ? vast difference between facts of science and of human life, 272 -
275 ? biology not a positive science, 276 -
278 ? points of difference between Pos
itivism and Comtism, 279 ? Comte had no connection with German thought, 280.
Coulanges,, Fustel de, his Political Institu tions of France, critical notice of, 455 -
461. Fiske, John, his Outlines of Cosmic Phi
losophy, critical notice of, 200 - 204.
Freytag, Gustav, his Die Ahnen, critical notice of, 444 - 452
Granger Movement, The, article on, 394 -
424 ? people of the East have known it
by its least creditable deeds, 395 ? its surroundings, 396 ? immense develop
ment of railroads in the West, between 1865 and 1870,397?began to produce discontent, 398 ? real grievances caused
by competition, 399 - 402 ? a"d by bad manners, 402 - 404 ?
unsatisfactory con dition in 1872, 404 ? resolutions adopted by convention of Granges at Spring field, 111., 405 ?
exasperated and unrea sonable feeling, resulting in wild legisla tion, 406 ? American confidence in the
efficacy of a law, 407 ? Western disre
gard for laws, views of Mr. Tufts, 409 ?
packing of benches, 411 ? defeat of Chief-Justice Lawrence of Illinois, 412
? the corporations fell back on consti tutional guaranties, 413 ?
fallacy of the Granger idea that the West was paying the railroads an inordinate profit, 414 ?
that these extortionate charges were made to pay dividends on fictitious cost of railroads, Mr. Springer's imaginative statements, 415 ? facts relative to Illi nois roads, 415 ?
Wisconsin, 416 ?
Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas, 417 ?
Grangers apparently wish others to take the risk of loss on roads, while they retain excess of profit, 418 - 420 ? con clusions from statistics,
? that the rail
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roads cost nominally too much, but not ultimately, 420 ?
people have gone too far west, 421 ? there lias been over-pro duction at remote points, 421 ? reduc tion of cost of carriage does not help the farmer, 422 ? what the Granger
movement has done, well or ill, 422-424. Higginson, T. W., his Young Folks' His
torv of the United States, critical notice of, 469-471
Howells, W. D., his A Foregone Conclusion, critical notice of, 207-214.
Hunt, Thomas Sterry, his Chemical and Geological Essays, critical notice of, 204-207.
Japan, The Recent Revolutions in, article on, 281 - 315 ? true causes of late great changes in Japan, 281 ? various distinct
movements since Commodore Perry's visit, 282 ? not inaugurated by foreign ers, 283 ?
origin of Japanese, their gov ernment, civilization and religion, 284 ?
government of China adopted in seventh century, 285 ?
growth of a military class in eighth century, houses of Taira and
Minamoto, 285 ?Yoritomo and hs usur pations as shogun, 286 ?
myth of two emperors, 287 ? the H?j? family, 287 ?
daimios attain great power. 288 ? Toku gawa Iyeyas?, the greatest character in Japanese history, 2?9 ?
rigorous and ex clusive policy of his successors, 290 ? its beneficent results during two hundred and seventy years of peace, 292 ? fall of the sh?guns, 292 ?
causes, 293 - 304 ? Buddhist priests, 293 ? historical works produced under Mito, and their teach ings, 294 ?
foreigners from various points eagerly watched Japan, 295 ? revival of Pure Shinto, 295 ? Prince of Mito in 1840 attemptei war, 296 ? southern clans favored restoration of supreme, undivided power to the Mikado, 297 ? the Prince of Satsuma, and his liberal plans, 297-299 ? Commodore Perry's arrival, how the sb?gun received his gifts and treated with him as Emperor of Japan, 299, 300 ? death of lyesada, Prince of Kishiu appointed shogun, 301
? indignation cause 1 by tbe signing of
treaties without the mikado's consent, 301 ?slaughter of foreigners, 302 ? fall of the bakufu, 302-304 ?Hitots?bashi appointed, his resignation, 304 ? the
composition of the mikado's party, 306 ? memorial to the mikado, and its im
portant results, 308 ? growth of news
papers, development of original litera ture, 310 ? Fukuzawa and other authors, 310, 311 ? overthrow of the feudal sys tem, 312 ?
present condition of the nation and government, 313 ?
summary, 314.
Lie, Jonas, his The Pilot and his Wife, critical notice of, 471-474.
Maine, Sir H. S., his Early History of In stitutions, critical notice of, 432-438.
Mill, J. S., his Three Essays on Religion, critical notice of, 461-469.
Municipal Government, An Episode in, article on, 119-174 ? H ffman govern or, A. Oakey Hall m* vor, 119 ? Tweed chosen Grand Sichern of Tammany, "Hank" Smith appointed Police Com
missioner, 120 ? Mayor Hall's tactics,
121 ? his message, 122 ? distribution of
advertising, 123 ? manufacturing public
opinion by appointing newspaper men to sinecure offices, 124 ? Hall eager to be noticed by press, 125 ? Gov. Hoffman's cordial reception at Albany, his policy and message, 126 ? Tweed's arrogant suprenncv, 127 ?
political aspirations, 128 ? " the multiplied Tweed," 129 ?
his greed, 129 ? high-handed rule of
Board of Supervisors, 130 ? street open ing a rich source of plunder, 130-135
? wor hless pavements, the " Fisk poul tice," 135 ? Newr York Printing Com pany, 136 ? Court House, the most co lossal swindle, 137-143 ? the mea who
Srofited
most by it, Garvey, Ingersoll, 'eyse-, 140 ?Davids n, Hall, Miller,
Smith, 141 ? Garvey's statement how
bills were made, 143 ? "Jimmy" Wat
son and his functions, 144-146 ?Wood ward's part, 146 ?
city paid for work done for members rf Ring, 147 ?
spoils of the "Market Ring," 148 ?
Ring ef forts to gain control of Board of Educa tion, 149-152 ? Mr. Boes?'s resignation, 151 ?
Sweeny's pecunia?y success as
Chamberlain,' 152-154 ? leaders in the revolt against Tweed and the rest, 155 ?
James O'Brien, 155 ? "Mike" Norton, 156 ?
Genet, 157 ? the Albany lobbyists, 158-161 ? Tweed in the Legislature, 161 ?the city tax levy for 1869, 161 163 ?
struggle between the Ring and the
Young Democracy on the city charter, 163-169 ? immense corrup'i?n, 166 ?
Citizens' Association, how sold out to
Rirg by Nathaniel Sands, 169-171 ?
tone of press over adoption of charter, 171 ? how effectually the charter put the government of the city in hands of
Ring, 172 -174. Native Races, The, of the Pacific States,
article on, 34-47 ? unpromising condi
tion and prospects of American litera
ture, 34 ? Mr. Hubert H. Bancroft's
great work, its plan and equipment, 35 -
37 ? sketches of the native races, ? the
Hyperborean group, Eskimos, 37-39 ?
their skill in house-making and boat
making. ? Sir John Franklin's estimate,
38 ? the Columbian group, ?
Nootkas, Chinooks, and Haidahs, their supersti tions and customs, 39-41 ? California
tribes, very degraded, 41, 42 ? torture by ants, 42 ? " Bedouins of the West " in Arizona and New Mexico, 43 ? the In dian policy we need, 43 ? the Pueblo
Indians, their semi-civilization, mode of
life, and customs, 45-47 ? encyclopedic
character of Mr. Bancroft's work, 47.
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Nichols, T. L., his Forty Years of Ameri can Life, critical notice of, 452-454.
Nordhoff, Charles, his The Communistic Societies of the United States, critical notice of, 226-229.
Palgrave, F. T., his Poems, critical notice of, 438-444.
Parkman, Francis, his The Old R?gime in Canada, critical notice of, 175-179.
Pauperism, article on, 315-334 ? Malthus's dictum, 315 ? evil nature and effects of the old English Poor Law, 316-318 ?
why supported by W. E. Forster, 317 ?
Lord Houghton's statement, Prof. Faw cett's admission, 318 ?
good features of Poor-Law Amendment Act of 1834, 318
? grave defects,?not providing general
education, and failing to ticket tramps, 319 ? statist ici of Engl ish pauperism, 320
? history of-pauperism in France, 322
327 ? its vast proportions in six'eenth and subsequent century, 322 ? the 44
right to labor," adopted by revolution ary government of 1792, 324 ? institu tional charity, 325 ? remarkab'e experi iment of Herr von der Heydt at Elberfeld, 327 ? facts and aspects of pauperism in
United States, 329-331 ? statistics of Mr. Sanborn, 331, 332 ? relative advan tages of out-door and in-door relief, 333
? influences and institutions that tend to diminish pauperism, 333, 334.
Province of Massachusetts Bay, By-Laws of" the, critical notice of, 229-231.
Quincy, Josiah, his Life and Speeches,crit ical notice of, 235.
Slave Power in America, Rise and Fall of the, article on, 47-83 ?
power and se
curity of slavery in 1840, 47-49 ? char acter of a work that should fitly describe its m ture, incidents, and fall, 49 ?
great value of Mr. Wilson's work, 50 ? our fathers supposed slavery would soon die, 51 ? the Missouri CompronYse, 52 ? or
ganization of antislavery in 1830, 53 ?
meetings invaded by mobs, 53 ? pun
gent interest of these meetings, 54 ? labored defences of slavery, 55 ? the conflict in Congress, 55-69 ?
petitions for abolition, 56 ?
stormy scene over pe tition presented by John Quincy Adams, 56-62 ?
great services of Mr. Adams to the antislavery cause, 62 ? annexation of Texas, and the opposition to it, 62, 63 ?
triumphs of slavery, and consequent re cruitment of the ranks of antislavery, 63 -65 ?
political shrewdness and suicide of Southern leaders, 66 ?
Fugitive Slave Law, its enforcement and the effect thereof, 66 - 68 ?
of slavey, 71 ? the Kansas struggle, 72 -74 ? John Brown, 74 ?
champions of freedom in Congress,
? Seward, Hale,
Mann, Giddings, Chase, Wilson, Sum ner, 74, 75 ? the assauH on Samner, 76
? madness of slavery, 76-80 ? eminent
advocates and allies of antislavery, 80 ?
faults of antislavery men, 81 ? moral of the conflict, 82 ?
only where free insti tutions exist has truth fu1! power, 82 ?
conservative power of such institutions, 83.
Spenser, article on, 334-394 ? a classic, 335 ?
Dante, 335 ? Scottish poetry of fif teenth century better than English, 336 ?
Dunbar, 336 ? Barbour's " Brus," 337 ?
nationality in literature, 338 ? Gawain Douglas, 338 ? first dutv of the Muse to be del;ghtful, 340 ?
Sk?lton, 340 ? Sid ney, 342 ?
Drayton, 344 ? Daniel, 345
? Spenser's contribu*ion to English
style, 347 ? his life, 348-357 ?his good character, 357 ? the "Shepherd's Cal endar" made an epoch in literature. 358 -364 ?the 4<
Muiopotmos," 365-373 ?
Bunyan's superiority to Spenser, 374 ?
Spenser's verse, 378 ? his indebtedness to Dante, 381 ? his costly style, 383 ?
his idealization of fac*s and sentiments, 384 ? the 4t
Epi'halamion," 385 ? the sweetest idealization love ever wrought, in the "
Faery Queen," 387 ? his fine sen suousness, 390-392 ? the land of Spen ser, the land of Dream and of Rest, 393
? unmixed delightfukess of the " Faery
Queen," 394. Spielhagen, F., his Ultimo, critical notice
of, 196-200. Tax Commissioners of Massachusetts, Re
ports of critical notice of, 477-484. Taylor, Bayard, his The Prophet, critical
notice of,* 188-194. United States, The Great Middle Region
of the, and its limited Space of Arable Land, article on, 1-34 ?
popular igno rance respecting value and capabilities of country between Mississippi Valley and California, 1 ?
description of territory along 32d parallel, 2 - 4 ?
along 35th, 4 6 ?
along 39th, line of Kansas Pacific Railroad, 6-9 ?along 41st, 9, 10 ?
along 45th and 46th, 10 - 14 ? rainfall in this vast section, 15-17 ?
agriculture successful in certain localities, 17-19 ?
excellent grazing facilities, 19 ? grim
climatic character of the northern tropi cal belt, 20 ? isothermal lines pushed three degrees too far north by Northern Pacific Railroad Co., 21 ?
very small
proportion of land available for agricul ture, 22-24 ?
misrepresentations by N. P. R. R. Co., 24-26 ? means employed to mislead the public, 25 ? fallacious ar
guments for building five lines of railroad to the Pacific, 27 ?rainfall at Fort Bu ford for several years, 28? Gen. Custer's statements based on the exceptionally fruitful summer of 1873, 29 ?Gen. Sui ly's letter concerning the section through
wlrch N. P. R. R. passes, 29, 30 ? other
testimony, 31 ? reliableness of the me
teorological statistics secured by War Department, and their unfavorable tenor
regarding the great middle section of the
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N. P. R. R., 33, 34. Von Hoist, Dr. H., his Administration of An
drew Jackson, critical notice of, 179-185. Wa je-Fund Theory, The, article on, 84
119 ? the doctrine of the wage-fund, 84 ? stated bv James Mill, J. R. McCul
loch, J. S.'Mill. Prof. Fawcett, C. Mor rison, H. C. Carev, H. Vethake, and Prof. Perry, 86-88?natural history of the doctrine, 88-93 ? subsistence-fund not the wagJ-fund 90 ?vital relation of
Malthusianism to the wage-fund theory, 92 ?
literary history of the doctrine, 93 -101 ?
important tf?atise by Francis D.
Longe, 94 ? his propositions, 95-97 ?
W. T. Thornton's treatise 44 On Labour," 97-99 ? Mr. Mill's recantation of the
wag -fund theory, 99 ? Prof. Cairnes's
conclusion, 101 ? wages not paid out of
capital, but out of the product of indus
try, 101-108?indiviflual profit the great reason for production, 102 ? rela tion between production and consump tion, 102 - 104, note ? how far are wages actually advanced out of capital V104-107
? payment of wages in New England,
105 ? in Middle and Southern States, 106 ?
production not necessarily propor tioned to capi al, 107 ? increase of pop
ulation not always implies decrease of wages, 108-113 ? Prof. Cairnes's error in treating of the relation of the supply of labor to the wage-fund, 114-116 ?
Prof. Vethake's, 116 ? skill and charac ter of laborers important e'ements in de
termining wages, 117 ? reasons why the term "
wdge-fund "
should be abandoned, 118, 119.
Whitney, W\ D.,h"s Or'ental and Linguistic Stud es, Second Senes, critical notice of, 474-476.
Cambridge : Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.
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