President Seth Low, of Columbia College, in discussing "Some Questions of the Day" in the June Harper's, advances the proposition that all disputes between capital and workingmen and all abuses of power by corporations and labor-unions should be settled from the standpoint of neither side in the controversy, but from the point of view of that commonly forgotten and usually silent partner, the general public.
The June Atlantic contains installments of the two leading serials by Mrs. Ward and Gilbert Parker, also a short story of frontier garrison life, by Ellen Mackubin, entitled " Rosita." Lafcadio Hearn contributes a delightful paper entitled " In the Twilight of the Gods," which, with Mary Stockton Hunter's poem, " A Japanese Sword-Song," gives this issue a distinct flavor of the Orient. Percival Lowell continues his readable papers upon "Mars," discussing in this issue the "Water Problem."
Scribner's Magazine for June opens with a dramatic presentation of the three epochs in the history of Chicago — " Before the Fire," •• After the Fire," and "To-day." The author, Melville E. Stone, has long been associated with the growth of Chicago as the owner and editor of a great newspaper, and he writes with the fullest knowledge of the men and material conditions that have made the new Chicago. The illustrations, which, on facing pages, show Chicago as it was before the fire and is now, are from exactly the same points of view, and give in the most striking manner a vivid idea of what the growth of Chicago has been. The illustrations of to day are from original paintings and not from photo graphs. They represent Chicago as it never before has been pictured.
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available for everybody. Ignorance at any rate is unnecessary when Monroe's message in its entirety may be had for five cents. "Uniform State Legislation " is the subject of a paper just issued by the American Academy of Polit ical and Social Science in its series of Publications. It is written by Frederic J. Stimson, Esq., of Boston, the author of " American Statute Law," and commis sioner from Massachusetts on the Board of Commis sioners to establish uniformity of law throughout the Union, and secretary of the National Conference for that purpose. A brief but valuable paper for those interested in parliamentary procedure is General Marcus J. Wight's account of the British House of Commons in the June Arena. He points out the differences between its rules and those t>f the House of Representatives, and shows wherein each excels the other in certain con veniences and methods. The editor of the Review of Reviews, in his running comment on " The Progress of the World" in the June number, reviews the Cuban situation and England's Nicaraguan relations at some length; he also summarizes the probable results of peace in the far East. Other international matters which re ceive attention in the editorial pages of the Review are the relief of Chitral, German and Austrian politics, France and the Nile, the new Speaker of the British House of Commons, elections in Greece and Den mark, the Pope's Encyclical to England, and the school question in Manitoba.
BOOK NOTICES. Mr. W. D. Howells has written for The Century Magazine two papers entitled " Tribulations of a Cheerful Giver," which make a wide appeal to the public interest as being a graceful and diverting series of confessions of the writer's experiences with the begging fraternity, with incidentally considerable philosophy of charity of a somewhat deprecatory sort. The first of these papers appears in the June number. The directors of the Old South studies, in Boston, have added to the series of Old South Leaflets Pre sident Monroe's message of Dec. 2, 1823, in which the famous "Monroe doctrine" was stated. It is fortunate that at this time, when there are such fre quent appeals and often such ignorant appeals to the Monroe doctrine, the original document is thus made
Municipal Home Rule. A Study in Administra tion. By Frank J. Goodnow, A.M., LL.B. Macmillan & Co. New York, 1895. Cloth.
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This work of Mr. Goodnow's displays the same careful research and exhaustive learning which dis tinguished his " Comparative Administrative Law," and is a most valuable and important treatise upon a subject which appeals to every thinking citizen. That there is room for much improvement in our form of municipal government there can be no doubt, and the changes that are being made in this direction in many of our large cities demonstrate that the people are alive to the fact of municipal shortcomings. But as a result of the intimate connection of the munici pal with general government, all concrete attempts at
