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Alger, William Rounseville, his life of Edwin Forrest, notice of, 379-381. America in Africa, article on, by Gilbert Haven, 147-158-Africa the realm of romance, 147-progress of discovery in Africa, 148- Africa as a market, 149 activity of European nations in African trade, 150 Africa as an outlet for popu- lation, 151- Africans in America, 152- attempts to establish American colonies in Africa, 153-Part II., 517-528-produc- tions of Africa, 517-its political condi- tion and population, 518-its necessities, 521-traffic with islands and coast, 522— annexation, 525-railroad to Cairo, 527. American Constitution, The, article on, by Oliver P. Morton, Part II., 68-78-de- fects in American electoral system, 68 necessity for reform, 69- -intentions of framers of Constitution, 71- - departures from original plau, 72-failure of Electo- ral College to represent will of people, 73 ་ -advantages of voting by districts over present method, 74.
Baker, James, his Turkey, notice of, 168-
Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle, their Titian, notice of, 164-165. Discovery, Progress in Astronomical, article on, 363-370-lunar theory, 363- - recent works on double stars, 363 - great tele- scopes of the future, 365 comets of 1877, 369- astronomical expedition to Ascen- sion Island, 369,-new Durchmusterung, 370-new satellites to Mars, 370. Douse, T., Le Marchant, his Grimm's Law, notice of, 177-182. Drama, Decline of the, article on, by Dion Boucicault, 235-246- drama said to be declining for two thousand years, 235- criticisms of Addison and Goldsmith ap-
demands of present century, 239 -de- structive influence of newspaper press, 240-information needed by dramatic critic, 242-commercial management and its evils, 243.
Electoral Conspiracy, The, article on, by J. S. Black, 1-34-public mind affected by "counting in" of Hayes, 1- indignation of Democrats and satisfaction of Repub- licans, 1-position of Democracy during War of Rebellion, 3-pledges of Republi- cans to Democrats broken, 4 injustice of Reconstruction Act of 1867, 4- char- acter of "carpet-baggers," 5-results of carpet-bag rule, 7 - responsibility of ad- ministration, 10— unpopularity of carpet- bag government, 11-origin of Returning Board, 11 - powers of Board, 12- its illegality, 12-first acts of Board, 13- efforts of Southern Democrats to preserve electoral franchise, 14-charges of intimi- dation against Democrats unsustained, 15 revolt of negroes against carpet-baggers, 16-personnel of Board, 17 - alteration of election returns, 18. Republican wit- nesses of Louisiana count considered, 19— course pursued by Gen. Grant, 21 — ap- pointment of Commission by Congress, 23
duties of Commission, 24- decision in support of fraud by Commission, 25-at- tempt of Board to justify its conduct, 25 - hedging for Oregon, 26- evidence sup- pressed by Commission, 28 case of Flor- ida, 29-veneration for forms of law by Commission, 32 — unreasonable discrimi- nations made by Commission, 32-right of American people to elect their chief mag- istrate, 33.
Electoral Conspiracy Bubble Exploded, The, article on, by E. W. Stoughton, 193-234
antecedents of Judge J. S. Black, 193 -statements made by him, 194 -base- ness of his charges, 196-position of coun- try, 197-provisions of Electoral Bill, 198 -charges of conspiracy analyzed, 199- motives of lawyers who appeared before
Commission, 200-duties of Commission, 201-powers of State and Congress, 201- finality of legislative decisions, 202-jus- tice of system practised, 203 -illustration by case of Louisiana, 204 intentions of framers of Constitution, 206- results that would follow were Congress given greater power, 207 — - governors not organs to de- clare electors, 208- situation in Oregon, 209 Florida, 211 quo warranto pro- ceedings, 213-legality of action of Com- mission, 215-Judge Black as attorney- general, 217- his participation in Rebel- lion, 219 Northern men and capital in South, 222 outrages in South, 225 causes for creation of Returning Board, 227 -witnesses of count of electoral vote, 233.
Fields, James T., his Underbrush, notice of, 594-595.
France, The Situation in, article on, 529- 543- - diversity of political conceptions in Europe, 529-English views of French action, 530 need of uniformity in Con- servatism, 531-French ideas of foreign. criticism, 532-prospect of Radical rule considered, 533-terrors of apprehension, 534-statements of members of cabinet, 535-estimates of opposing forces, 536 - personal pecuniary interest a defence against Radicalism, 537-re-establishment of monarchy improbable, 538 — mistaken policy pursued under Marshal MacMahon, 539-his position, 540- Socialism de- stroyed by free institutions, 541- arbi- trariness of Conservatives, 542- respon- sibility of originators of Act of 16th of May, 543.
Furness, Horace Howard, his New Edition of Shakespeare, notice of, 392-393. Gill, William F., his The Life of Edgar Allen Poe, notice of, 580-582.
Gobineau, his Nouvelles Asiatiques, notice of,
Grisebach, Eduard, his Study of a Chinese Novel, notice of, 159- 161. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, article on, by Bayard Taylor, 60-67-monument to Halleck, 60 Halleck a pioneer in literature, 60 -nature and early development of his genius, 61 his prominent poems, 62 quality of his productions, 62- his char- acter and opinions, 63-his personal ap- pearance, 64 his last days, 66. Hassard, John R. G., his Richard Wagner at Bayreuth, notice of, 162-163. Hodgkins, George, his Report on the Ontario Exhibit, notice of, 391-392. Hoffman, Wickham, his Camp, Court and Siege, notice of, 171–172.
Holland, J. G., his Nicholas Minturn: A Study in a Story, notice of, 588-589. Hugo, Victor, his Art d'être Grand-Père, notice of, 393-394.
Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart, their Science Primers, notice of, 165 - 166. Huxley, Thos. H., his American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology, notice of, 595-596.
Judaism, Reformed, article on, by Felix Ad- ler, 133-146-peculiarities of Jews, 133 changes within last century, 134- purity of their domestic relations, 134 - their schools, 137 — organization of syna- gogue, 139- influence of persecution, 140. Part II., 327 350- - Mendelssohn, 327-Bible, 328-social standing, 332 Paris, the New Jerusalem, 334- Liturgy, 335 "339- 'Hep-Hep," science of Ju- daism, 340 scientific theology, 341- principles, 345-prospects, 349. Kitchin, G. W., his A History of France, Vols. II. and III., notice of, 576-578.
La Marmora, Alphonse, his Secrets d'État dans le Gouvernment Constitutionel, notice of, 382-383.
Lange, his Commentary on the Holy Scrip- tures, notice of, 183-185.
La Salle, Cavelier de, article on, by Francis Parkman, 427-438-origin and charac- teristics, 427-letters, 428-plans, 429- difficulties first encountered, 430-jour- ney from Peoria to Fort Frontenac, 431- destruction of fort and colony in Illinois, 433-exploration of Mississippi River, 434 answers to criticisms, 435-official power turned against him, 437 -deficien- cies as a leader of men, 438. Lodge, Henry Cabot, his Life and Letters of George Cabot, notice of, 582-584. Mac Donald, George, his Marquis of Lossie, notice of, 383-384.
Mc Coan, J. C., his Egypt As It Is, notice of, 584-585.
Meyer, Bruno, his Studies and Criticisms, notice of, 173-175. Michelangelo and the Buonnarroti Archives,
article on, by T. Adolphus Trollope, 499- 516-will of Cavaliere Buonarroti, 499- early surroundings of Michelangelo, 500 development of his genius, 501 - his ac- quaintance with Vittoria Colonna, 502 – his poems, 503-his manners and personal appearance, 504- his art-works in middle life, 505- his letters to Lionardo, 506 his plainness of speech, 508- his religious sentiments, 509-his labors at St. Peter's Church, 510-his happiness, 511- his death, 512- - his operations at Sistine Chapel, 513- details of his painting at chapel, 514- his methods of work, 515 — his genius, 516.
cial experience of Japan with Christian countries, 88. business practices in Lon- don and New York, 88-duties of clergy- men in financial affairs, 88-frauds per- petrated by professors of religion, 89 effects of observations of Japanese travel- lers, 90- way of heaven, 91. Morgan, Lewis H., his Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Prog- ress, from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization, notice of, 589-591. Nineteenth Century, The, notice of, 172 - 173. Novels, New American, article on, by Ed- ward L. Burlingame, 309 321 The American, 309-its literary finish, 309 its intellectual character, 310 - its dissim- ilarity to previous works by its author, 311 its hero, 312-contrasts in personages described in it, 313 defects in its de- nouement, 314 Garth, 315- peculiari- ties of its style, 315 its inconsistencies, A Modern Mephistopheles, 316 its plot, 317-its merits, 318- That Lass o' Lowrie's, 318-description of charac- ters delineated, 318- The Jericho Club, The Barton Experiment, The Scripture Club of Valley Rest, 319- - their tentative character, 319-relative merits, 320 Nimport, First Love is Best, 321. Parkman, Francis, his Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV., notice of, 585-587.
Payer, Julius, his New Lands within the Arctic Circle, notice of, 163-164. Perpetual Forces, article on, by Ralph Wal- do Emerson, 271-282 importance of employing every advantage, 271-opera- tion of natural agencies, 272- - compensa- tions of nature, 274- parallels between mind and matter, 273-ability of man to use the elements, 275-man's resources, 276 value of persistency, 277-con- cealed powers, 278 -effects of sensibility,
279 desire of man to make use of forces of nature for private ends, 280 - disasters logically follow attempts to do without jus- tice, 281 timidity discreditable, 281. Perry, Arthur Latham, his Introduction to Political Economy, notice of, 185–186. Prosperity, How shall the Nation regain? article on, by David A. Wells, 110-132 - equality of results of labor, 110- advan- tages possessed by United States, 112- wages and interest, 113-abundance of supplies and lack of demand, 115 — ina- bility of nations to purchase, 116 — re- quirements of families, 119-changes in trade produced by improvements, 122 increase in power of production and dis- tribution manifested in novel manner, 124 - disposition to be made of surplus labor, 126- opportunities for effecting desir- able social and economic changes becom- ing fewer, 128- duties of public teachers, 131-Part II., 283-308-illimitability of man's wants, 284-principles involved in trade, 286 reasons why demand for productions of United States is not greater, 287evil effects of restrictions upon com-
merce with British Provinces, 288 - value of domestic freight exchanges, 289-ad- vantages to be secured by free trade with Canada, 290 - annexation considered, 291 resources of Canada, 294 · operation of Reciprocity Treaty, 295 General Grant's views in regard to San Domingo, 298 trade with Canada examined, 299 relations with Canada not exceptional, 300 effect of legal enactments upon commerce with Chili, 301 - advantages possessed by English manufacturers, 302 character of trade between England and Chili, 303 effect of duties upon traffic results with Argentine Republic, 306 with Australia and New Zealand, 308- Part III., 544-556-necessity for enlarged markets in foreign countries, 544 - need of steamship transportation, 545- Ameri- can shipping decreased, 546-early sec- tional interests affecting navigation, 547— compromise between sections, 548- -pas- sage of arbitrary laws, 549- their provis- ions, 550-illustrations of their operation, 551- additional legislation, 552-remov- al of restrictions in other countries, 553- opposition to free trade in England, 554- increase of tonnage in England resulting from free trade, 555.
Publications Received, 190-192, 396, 598. Reade, Charles, his A Woman-Hater, notice of, 389-390.
Reid, T. Wemyss, his Charlotte Bronté, no- tice of, 394-395.
Resumption of Specie Payment, article on, by Hugh McCulloch, William D. Kelley, David A. Wells, Thomas Ewing, Joseph S. Ropes, and John Sherman, 397-426 opinion of Hugh McCulloch, 397-404- plethora of paper money, cause of finan- cial troubles, 397 - protection against over-issue by banks, 397-impropriety of legal-tender acts, 398-probable inability of government to redeem its notes in 1879, 399-impracticability of repealing Re- demption Act of 1875, 400-manner in which legal-tender notes can be with- drawn, 401- reduction of currency not likely to cause large decrease of prices, 402 -disadvantages of use of silver as a stand- ard, 402 — opinion of William D. Kelley, 404-408-cause of paralysis of indus- tries and trade, 405 origin of Resump- tion Act, 405-impossibility of its execu- tion, 406 extract from letter by Henry C. Carey, 407-opinion of David A. Wells, 408-412- difficulties in way of repeal of Resumption Act, 408- obliga- tion of government to pay interest în case of delay in paying principal, 409- - pro- priety of funding legal-tender notes, 410 -powers of Secretary of Treasury to carry Resumption Act into effect, 411. opinion of Thomas Ewing, 412-416- ject of Resumption Act to destroy legal- tender notes, 412-resumption cannot be maintained without large and rapid reduc- tion of circulation, 413- -operation of British Resumption Law, 414- results to be expected from resumption, 415 — im-
portance of repealing act, 416-opinion of Joseph S. Ropes, 416-420 - difficulty lies not in resumption, but in re-establish- ment of specie standard, 416-effects of uncertainty, 417-amount of currency possible to be sustained on par with specie, 418-means of resuming safely, 419- opinion of John Sherman, 420-426- error of attributing financial distress to Resumption Act instead of to inflation, 420-object of Resumption Act, 422. new plans for resumption not desirable, 423 projects considered, 424-power given by Resumption Act, 425 - public faith not likely to be impaired, 426. Russia, New, article on, by M. W. Hazeltine, 94-109 abolishment of serfdom, 94- gradual progress of, 96- unequal effects of, 96-disappointment of liberated serfs in, 97 essential features of communal system, 98 stability of, 99 causes of immorality connected with, 102-condi- tion of woman, 102-moral and religious status of clergy, 103-social position of, 105- characteristics of national church, 106- - progressive tendency of noblesse, 107- failure to create intelligent aristoc- racy, 108. Sellar, W. Y., his The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age, notice of, 587-588. Southern Question, The, article on, by Charles Gayarré, 472-498-origin of question, 472-relations resulting from slavery, 473-cause of antagonism between North and South, 474-secret of South- ern influence, 476 Northern opposi- tion to slavery prompted by political and not by humanitarian considerations, 477
present form of Southern problem more difficult than former one, 478-condition of South after war, 479-question of races now the only question, 481-injustice of government in giving control of South to negroes, 482-abuses under negro rule, 483-necessity for frank statement of Southern views, 484-restoration of self- government, 485-natural tendency of strong races to destroy weak ones, 486- sexual relations between whites and blacks, 487- negro presumption, 488- prejudices between mulattoes and negroes, 489-hybrids, 490-unreasonableness of claims of hybrids to represent blacks po- litically, 491-importance of races being kept as distinct as possible, 492— distri- bution of patronage according to color an outrage, 493-the South better quali- fied than the North to settle the posi- tion of the negro, 494- Caucasian suprem- acy essential to peace and prosperity, 495
- confidence of negroes in white men, 496 - future to bring relief for difficulties, 497 - object of author, 498. Spencer, Herbert, his Principles of Sociology, notice of, 167-168.
Spry, W. J., his Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Challenger, notice of, 386 - 387. Squier, E. George, his Peru, notice of, 374-
Stephen, Leslie, his Essays on Free Think- ing and Plain Speaking, notice of, 592-
Strikes, The Recent, article on, by Thomas A. Scott, 351-362-review of facts in connection with, 351-origin of, 352 causes of general financial depression, 353 - business interests assisted by railways, 354-responsibility of railway employés for disturbances, 355-right of railways to protection, 356- - necessity for prompt ac- tion by authorities, 357- - inadequacy of present means to suppress riots, 358- losses to government by strikes, 359-im- portance for distribution of military forces, 360- -demand of early Congressional ac- tion, 361-just intentions of railway man- agers, 362.
Symonds, John Addington, his Renaissance in Italy, The Revival of Learning, The Fine Arts, notice of, 371-374. Tegnér, Esaias, his Frithjof's Saga, no- tice of, 187-189.
Ulrici, Herman, his Treatises upon Art His- tory as Applied Esthetics, notice of, 175 - 177.
Unbelief, The Functions of, article on, by Thomas Hitchcock, 462-471-mankind naturally divided into believers and un- believers, 462-unbelief most conspicu- ous in religious matters, 463- moral character independent of belief, 464- results that would follow suppression of unbelief, 464-unbelief a preventive of imposture and fanaticism, 465-punish- ments inflicted upon unbelievers in un- civilized times, 465-believers receiving benefit of work done by unbelievers, 466- religious faith purged of error by scepti- cism, 467-wholesome influence of unbe- lief in political affairs and criminal juris- prudence, 469-unbelief and the doctrines of immortality, 469-mental condition of believers and unbelievers compared, 470. Ultramontane Movement in Canada, The, article on, by Charles Lindsey, 557-575 - Canadian pre-eminence in Catholicism, 557-operations of Zouaves, 558-con- trol of press, 559-liberty of religious opinion prohibited, 560- - teachings of priests, 561- - claims of jurisdiction, 562 condemnation of civil marriages, 563 — punishments inflicted upon newspapers, 564first attempt to control elections, 565- - right to control political affairs claimed, 566-rulings of bishops, 567- contradictory orders, 568- support of ex- treme measures by Pope, 569-objections from people, 570-influence of priests upon electors, 571-priests sustained by a judge, 572- their action condemned by Supreme Court, 573 — - repeated cases of intimidation, 574-rupture between civil and ecclesiastical powers, 575.
Van Laun, Henri, his History of French Literature, III., notice of, 597.
Viking Tales of the North, notice of, 187-
Wages, Fair, article on, by A Striker, 322-
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