political and social affairs, reduce these essentials to their lowest terms and group them in their true relations in brief diagrams or pictures, is invaluable in any department of life where clear thinking and intellectual grasp are important elements. This analytic power is one of the corner-stones of mastery and achievement. Not less important is the work done in the direction of developing civic interest. The boy is impressed with the fact that he is or soon will be one of the directors and rulers of the United States; that his part in civic affairs is quite as important as his occupation, vital as that undoubtedly is; that all-round manhood should be the aim, and making a living is only one arc of the circle; and that he must study to be a good citizen as well as a good worker. The Bureau's leaflets entitled "Civic Suggestions," "Lincoln's Message to Young Men," and "Analysis of Parliamentary Law," are very useful in this connection. The latter enables the young man to fit himself with very little effort to join in the discussions of a town meeting, young men's congress or debating society, or preside over a meeting with credit to himself if called to the chair. Very often the youth can be led to read and analyze a series of good books on government and public questions, beginning perhaps with Dole and Fiske on Citizenship and Civil Government, or with Forman's Advanced Cures and Bryce's American Commonwealth, and continuing with the works of Albert Shaw, Zueblin, Howe and Steffens, the famous speeches of Wendell Phillips and the messages of Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt, the great problem books, such as Moody's Truth About the Trusts, Wealth Against Commonwealth, Labor Copartnership, The Story of New Zealand, etc., and some of the principal books on history, economics and sociology. The work is in its infancy as yet, but it is constantly growing in volume and importance. The Director and those associated with him are enthusiastic over the results that have been achieved even in the few weeks since the Bureau was established, but they believe that in order to cover the field in the most complete and adequate manner the work should become a part of the public-school system in every community, with experts trained as carefully in the art of vocational guidance as men are trained to-day for medicine or the law, and laboratories supplied with every facility that science can devise for testing the senses and capacities and the whole physical, intellectual and emotional make-up of the child. NOTES AND COMMENTS. ARENA we close Vol men in widely different walks of life, are typical of WITH this issue of THFOR VArious quarters the general expressions which are constantly being throughout the Republic, from Mexico, Canada and other foreign lands, we have received a great number of letters of the most flattering character, as to the content-matter of this review, many of our subscribers insisting that THE ARENA to-day is far better than ever before in its history. Below we give extracts from a few of scores of letters that have been received during the past few weeks. From Sandy Hill, New York, under date of April seventeenth, a well-known professional gentleman writes: "I desire to express my hearty appreciation of your work in behalf of the industrial men and women of this Republic, and that, too, in the face of a double battle-line: first, the oligarchy of the criminal rich, and, secondly, the long line of semiignorant, who never read a magazine article-men like Tweed's constituency, who can only be impressed by cartoons and pictures of their poverty. It seems to me that if every voter in the land could have an opportunity to read even the March number of THE ARENA, the consummation of the great work in which you are engaged would be attained." A prominent journalist of New York City, under date of April eighth, writes: "Let me say to you that I believe THE ARENA is better than it ever was. It is in the wide catholicity of its contents that it excels. I read it with a great deal of pleasure." A leading lawyer who is also the proprietor of a large daily in the West, under date of April sixth, writes: "I have been a constant reader of THE ARENA for several years, as I like to keep posted in the discussions in the periodicals of the month, and this is, in my judgment, certainly the ablest of any of them." From the City of Mexico an influential business man writes: "The articles that have appeared in THE ARENA on Christian Science have been highly appreciated here, those by yourself especially. I am not a member of the church in question, but I like the spirit of fair play displayed in those articles, which, however, is characteristic of the treatment accorded every topic admitted into the columns of THE ARENA for discussion. Wishing for your magazine the popularity and prosperity it so richly merits, and for yourself great success and happiness in the noble work for humanity to which you are devoting your life, I remain." From a planter of Adams, Tennessee: "All radicals, which means all true reformers, say THE ARENA is better now, with you, its founder, again at the helm, than it ever was, and is doing more good. You are fighting for the noblest cause since Bunker Hill." Extracts of this character could be extended almost indefinitely. The above, however, from received at the Editorial Department of the magazine. This month's issue is particularly strong in timely articles of worth on great questions vital to the life and integrity of free government-fundamental questions in the domain of politics, economics and and social progress. We especially call the attention of our readers to the symposium on DirectLegislation, which opens with one of the most notable contributions that has yet appeared on this subject. It is from the brilliant pen of United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma. Every friend of fundamental democracy from the Atlantic to the Pacific should read the masterly setting forth of facts that are of the utmost importance to the cause of pure and popular government in this able article on "The Restoration of Popular Rule: The Greatest Non-Partisan Issue." The issue is the most important that is now being fought between the upholders of a democratic republic and the advocates of a reactionary class despotism. Consequently no high-minded American can be indifferent to the facts which Senator Owen so happily presents. "In Direct-Legislation Campaign in the Empire State we give one of a series of papers which we contemplate publishing, dealing with the battle of the people against corrupt bosses and privileged interests throughout the various commonwealths of America. In Oregon and Oklahoma the principles of popular rule have splendidly triumphed. In South Dakota they are also a part of the organic law, although the constitutional provisions are not so ideal as those of Oregon and Oklahoma. In five commonwealths this year the people will vote on the question of whether or not the voters are to be the real sovereigns or whether the classes acting through corrupt bosses and the handy-men of the 'interests' are to be the governing power. In The Direct-Legislation Campaign in the Empire State we are pleased to be able to present the portraits of about a score of men who are interested in this great fight for the restoration and maintenance of the government of the fathers. The third paper of the symposium has been prepared by Mr. Frederic C. Leubuscher, the able attorney who drafted the proposed New York State Constitutional Amendment, and is a paper of interest and value to the friends of Direct-Legislation everywhere. It admirably complements the preceding articles. The symposium dealing with the present attempt to Russianize America by suppression of free speech and free assembly is timely. The cause is vital because it strikes at the heart of popular government and orderly and peaceful progress. The attempt of the enemies of the Republic to encourage violence and anarchy, such as prevail in Russia, by suppressing freedom of speech, must be met by immediate and nation-wide protest if the program of reaction being steadily pressed forward by the upholders of the oligarchy of privileged wealth is to be checked. A paper that richly merits special notice is Mr. George Allan England's discussion of the recent panic and the present economic outlook. The author, who is a master of arts from Harvard, is a deep thinker on social and political questions and has given us in this article a paper of special value and interest. Turning from the discussions of political, social and economic issues to papers relating to the spiritual life or the relation which man sustains to the Creator and the universe, the readers will find in this issue two contributions markedly interesting. In Professor BIXBY's The Message of Emerson we have one of the most masterly papers of the kind that has appeared. The writer of this paper has long held a foremost place among the great liberal religious thinkers of the New World. He holds the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Leipsic. In Mr. WEBSTER's paper on The Philosophy of Christianity we have a thoughtful presentation by a prominent Christian-Science thinker of the three world-concepts of life: that of monism or materialism; that of dualism, and the metaphysical concept that holds that God and the spiritual universe are the great realities. In The Failure of Organized Religion in the Treatment of the Marriage Relation, the Rev. ROLAND D. SAWYER, a prominent New England Congregational clergyman, has written a paper that cannot fail to arrest the attention of thinking men and women. Some of its revelations are startling in character. Especially is this true of those that show the historical results of the celibacy of the clergy. In An Assistant to Providence we are pleased to again be able to present our readers with another of Mrs. WILMATTE PORTER COCKERELL'S short stories-stories that are always instinct with moral idealism and an atmosphere of helpfulness. Accidents, Railroad, The Ultimate Issue Involved in, 14. Albertson, Hazel Hammond, News of Industrial Albertson, Ralph, Initiative and Referendum News, America's Monte Carlo, The Nation-Wide Blight Arbitration, The Principles of, 64; Compulsory, "Aryan Peoples, Race Life of the," 579. Barton, Clara, How and Why She Became Inter- Baxter, Rex Mitchell, The Legislative Reference Beaumont, Saul, Zionism or Socialism: Which Will Beckhard, Bruno, Public Ownership News, 103, Books of the Day, 117, 249, 381, 490, 590. Brooks, John Graham, on the Renaissance of Dem- Browning, Robert: The Eagle-Hearted Poet of the Bryan, Mr., and the Corporation-Owned Press, 92; Canada, The Peopling of, 186. Centralization, Extreme, The Popular Reaction Charwoman, My, What She Said to Me, 68. Christ, The Sick and Modern Christianity, 557. Church, The, and Social Problems of the Hour, 82; sentative Government, One of the Foremost 205. Civic Righteousness, The Clergy and the Battle for, 455. Clark, Walter, Judicial Supremacy, 148. Clarke, George Herbert, The Symbolism of “The Clergy, The, and the Battle for Civic Righteousness, Clergyman's Brave Stand for Pure Government, Cleveland, Mayor Johnson's Splendid Victory for Closed Shop to the Open World, Through the, 544. Comments, Notes and, 128, 255, 388, 511, 639, 767. Commercial Panics, How to Make Them Impos- Constitution, The Federal, and the Maintenance of Constitutional Convention, Michigan, 228. Coöperation in Great Britain, 275. Corporal Punishment, A Protest Against, 96. People, Master Sources of, 205; and Enslavement Cortelyou, Crafty Mr., How He was Caught in Crime, The Relation of Woman in Industry to the Criminal Rich, Governor Folk on Public Servants Criminals, Is the United States Government Mak- Crozier, Alfred O., The Recent Panic and the Deity, The Christian Science Concept of, 299. Democratic Party, Mr. Bryan and the Would-Be Wreckers of the, 344; the Would-Be Wreckers Dick Turpins, The Modern, Renewed Activity of, Direct-Legislation, Renders Possible a Truly Rep- Drink, Sixty Years' Futile Battle of Legislation Ebb of Ecclesiasticism, The, 176. Ecclesiasticism, The Ebb of, 176. Editor's Quiet Hour, The, 72, 198, 323, 441, 575, Education for All, A Fair, 425. Egyptian Taskmasters, Why the People Have So Election, The Coming, The Political Outlook for, 552. Elwell, F. Edwin, The Life and Art of, 259; The England, George Allan, The Ebb of Ecclesiasti- Englishman's Criticism of Our Republic, An, 344. Express Company, Twenty-Four Millions to Express Rates, The Recent Raise in by the Ameri- Farnsworth, Edward C., Leibnitz, Hegel and Federal Constitution, The, and the Maintenance Fehlandt, August F., Science and the Supernatural, 282. Finland's Radical Prohibition Legislation, 94. Flower, B. O., The Soul of Man in Twentieth- Scandal, 84; The Pitiable Plight of the Treasury |