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AMES, H. V. The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States during the 1st Century of its History. Annual Report, American Historical Association for 1896. Washington, Government Printing Office.

Annual Literary Index, 1897. N. Y., Publishers Weekly.

BARNES, JAMES. 1897.

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.,

BERGEN, FRANK. The Other Side of the Declaration of Independence. Elizabeth, N. J.

BOARD OF TRADE, LABOUR DEPARTMENT. Report on Strikes and Lockouts, 1896. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode.

Board of Trade. 9th Report by the Chief Labour Correspondent on Trade Unions. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897.

BODLEY, J. E. C. France. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

VON BORTKEWITSCH, L. Die Mittlere Lebensdauer. Jena, G. Fischer, 1893. BRYAN, SOPHIE. The Teaching of Morality in the Family and the School. N. Y., The Macmillan Co., 1897.

BUNGE, N. CH. Esquisses de littérature politico-economique, traduit du russe. Bâle & Genève, 1898.

Burgess, J. W. The American History Series. The Middle Period, 1817-58. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

CALLAHAN, J. M. The Neutrality of the American Lakes and Anglo-American Relations. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

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CHAMBERS, H. E. West Florida and its Relation to the Historical Cartography of the United States. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, XVI Series, No. 5.

CHANNING, E. A Student's History of the United States. N. Y., The Macmillan Co., 1898.

CHAPMAN, JAMES W. State Tax Commissions in the United States. (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 15th Series, Nos. X-XI.) Baltimore, 1897.

CLARK, W. The Anglican Reformation. (Ten Epochs of Church History.) N. Y., The American Book Company, 1897.

Congrès International des accidents du travails et des assurances sociales. Rapports. Bruxelles, P. Weissenbach.

CROOKS, GEORGE R. The Story of the Christian Church. N. Y., Eaton & Mains. CROWELL, J. F. The Logical Process of Social Development. N. Y., Henry Holt & Co.

CUNNINGHAM, W. An Essay on Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects. Cambridge, University Press.

DARWIN, MAJOR L. Bimetallism. N. Y., D. Appleton & Co.

DAVIDSON, JOHN. The Bargain Theory of Wages. N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons. DESTREE, J., & VANDERVELDE, E. Le socialisme en Belgique. Paris, V. Giard & E. Brière.

DRAKE, S. A. The Border Wars of New England. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

DUNNING, W. A. Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

Fourth Annual Report of the Labour Department, Board of Trade, 1896-97. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897.

FRAZER, R. W. A Literary History of India. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons.

GODKIN, E. L. Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy. Boston and N. Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

GORDY, W. F. A History of the United States for Schools. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's

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HERBART, J. F. The Application of Psychology to the Science of Education. Translated and edited by Beatrice C. Mulliner. Imported by Chas. Scribner's Sons. HINSDALE, B. A. Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons.

JOHNSON, J. F. Political Economy and Public Law. Discussion of Interrogatories of the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis Convention. University of Pennsylvania.

LORD, ELEANOR L. Industrial Experiments in the British Colonies. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, extra volume, XVII.

NOYES, A. D. Thirty Years of American Finance. N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons. PAGE, T. N. Social Life in Old Virginia. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897. Pantaleoni, M. Du caractère logique des différences d'opinions qui séparent les économistes, Geneva, 1897.

PANTALEONI, M. Pure Economics. Translated by T. B. Bruce. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

PARETO, V. Quelques exemples d'application des méthodes d'interpolation à la statistique. Nancy, 1897.

PHILLIPS, W. A. The War of Greek Independence, 1821-33. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

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REDDAWAY, W. F. The Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge, University Press; N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

DE SAINT-ARMAND, IMBERT. Napoleon III and His Court. Translated by Elizabeth G. Martin. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons.

SANDERS, F. W. The Standard of Living and its Relation to Economic Theory and Land Nationalization. University of Chicago.

SAYOUS, A. E. Étude économique et juridique sur les Bourses Allemandes. Paris,

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SCHAFF, D. S. The Life of Philip Schaff. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897. SIDGWICK, HENRY. Practical Ethics. London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.; N. Y., The Macmillan & Co., 1898.

SMITH, T. C. The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co.

SOLVAY, E. Le progrès économique et la morale sociale. Bruxelles, 1897.

SOMBART, WERNER. Le socialisme et le mouvement social au XIXe siècle. Paris, V. Giard & E. Brière.

STARK, F. R. The Abolition of Privateering and the Declaration of Paris. Columbia Studies, VIII, 3. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

STORY, A. T. The Building of the British Empire. (Story of the Nation Series.) N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons.

TIELE, C. P. Elements of the Science of Religion. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

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The American Railway. By T. C. Clarke, J. Bogart and others. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

TURGOT, A. Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

Vasari's Lives of the Painters. Edited by E. H. & E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

VINCENT, G. E. The Social Mind and Education. N. Y., The Macmillan Co., 1897.

Ward, Lester F. Outlines of Sociology. N. Y., The Macmillan Co.

WARNER, F. The Study of Children. N. Y., The Macmillan Co., 1897.

WEBB, SIDNEY & BEATRICE. Industrial Democracy. London and N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co.

WILLEY, F. O. The Laborer and the Capitalist. N. Y., Equitable Pubg. Co.

WYCKOFF, W. A. The Workers, An Experiment in Reality. N. Y., Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1897.

WYLIE, JAMES H. History of England under Henry IV.
London, Longmans, Green & Co.

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ZENKER, E. V. Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory.

N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.

THE

YALE REVIEW.

AUGUST, 1898.

COMMENT.

Imperialism, True and False; Administrative Problems of an Imperial Policy; State Railroad Purchase in Switzerland.

THE

HE terms of peace may be agreed upon between Spain and the United States while the present number of the YALE REVIEW is passing through the press. To discuss the possibilities of the treaty in detail would therefore be inopportune. Yet the general questions of foreign policy, so suddenly brought into prominence by the war, cannot be considered as settled by a single treaty, and for some time to come we must expect that the colonial question will vie in importance with, and indeed powerfully influence, the questions of domestic policy which have hitherto engrossed our attention. The importance of the problem thus presented may be seen from the manner in which the reconcentrados, for whose benefit the war was ostensibly waged, have apparently dropped from the public mind, while empire is on the lips of every one.

The question is indeed of the first magnitude, and before committing ourselves to what may be irrevocable, we should carefully consider what we mean by empire. The term is most incongruous in a democratic country. As originally used, imperium meant military despotism, and it was the rule of the commander of the army, to which Rome had to submit when the Republic decayed and self-government had become a lost art. It meant, primarily, the substitution of an autocracy for a republic. It also meant a large area governed, and often grossly misgoverned, for the advantage of the imperator and of