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ADAMS.-The Law of Civilization and Decay. An Essay on History. By BROOKS ADAMS. 8vo, cloth, $2.50.

ARNOLD.-The Letters of Matthew Arnold. 1848-1888. Collected and engraved by GEORGE W. E. RUSSELL. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, $3.00. Uniform with Matthew Arnold's Works.

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BARRETT.-A Set of Rogues. Their
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BORGEAUD.-Adoption and Amendment
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BRADFORD.-Heredity and Christian
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BRADFORD.-Types of American Character. By GAMALIEL BRADFORD, Jr. 32mo, cloth, 75 cents. (New volume of Miniature Series.)

BRIGHTWEN. - Inmates of My House and Garden. By Mrs. BRIGHTWEN, author of "Wild Nature Won by Kindness." Illustrated by THEO. CARRERAS. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. (Uniform with Sir John Lubbock's "Pleasures of Life," etc.) BRYCE.-The American Commonwealth. By JAMES BRYCE, D.C.L., author of "The Holy Roman Empire," M.P. for Aberdeen. In 2 vols. Third Edition. Revised throughout and much enlarged. Large 12mo, cloth, gilt top, Vol. I., pp. 724, $1.75 net. Vol. II., pp. 904, $2.25 net. The set, 2 vols., in box, $4.00 net.

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CROCKETT.-The Men of the Moss-Hags. Being a History from the pages of William Gordon of Earlstoun in the Glenkens, and told over again by 8. R. CROCKETT, author of "The Stickit Minister," "The Raiders," etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

DEAN.-Fishes, Living and Fossil. An Outline of their Form and Probable Relationship. By BASHFORD DEAN, Ph.D., Columbia, Instructor in Biology, Columbia College. With Illustrations from the author's original Pen Drawings. 8vo, cloth, $2.50 net. (Columbia University Biological Series.)

DYER.-The Evolution of Industry. By HENRY DYER, M.A., D.Sc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. FITZGERALD.-The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble. Collected and Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. 12mo, cloth (Eversley Series), $1.50.

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FRASER.-The Brown Ambassador. A Story of Three Days' Moon. By Mrs. HUGH FRASER. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

GOODNOW.-Municipal Home Rule. A Study in Administration. By FRANK J. GOODNOW, Professor of Administrative Law, Columbia College. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. (Columbia University Press. Vol. II.) HIATT.- Picture Posters. A Short History of the Illustrated Placard, with many Reproductions of the most Artistic Examples in all Countries. By CHARLES HIATT. With upward of 150 Examples of Picture Posters, of England, France, Germany, and America, many published here for the first time. Crown 8vo, cloth, $4.00 net.

HYDE. - Outlines of Social Theology. By WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE, D.D. Second Edition. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

JACKSON.-The Great Frozen Land. Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras and a Sojourn among the Samoyads. By GEORGE F. JACKSON, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and leader of the Jackson - Harmsworth Polar Expedition. With Illustrations and Maps. Edited from his Journals by ARTHUR MONTEFIORE. 8vo, cloth, $4.50.

JOWETT.-College Sermons. By the late BENJAMIN JOWETT, M.A. Edited by the Very Rev. the Hon. W. H. FREEMANTLE, M.A., Dean of Ripon. 12mo, cloth, $2.00. KING.- New Orleans. The Place and the People. By GRACE KING, author of "Monsieur Motte," "Jean Baptiste Le Moyne," etc. Profusely Illustrated by FRANCES E. JONES. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2.50. KÜLPE.-Outlines of Psychology, Based upon the Results of Experimental Investigation. By OSWALD KÜLPE, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Wurzburg. Translated from the German (1893) by EDWARD BRADFORD TITCHENER, Sage Professor of Psychology in Cornell University. 8vo, cloth, $2.00 net.

LA FARGE.- Considerations on Painting. Lectures given at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. By JOHN LA FARGE. 12mo, buckram, $1.25.

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OLIPHANT. -The Makers of Modern Rome. In Four Books. I., Honourable Women not a Few. II., The Popes who Made the Papacy. III., Lo Popolo; and the Tribute of the People. IV., The Popes who Made the City. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. With numerous Illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL and HENRY P. RIVIERE, engraved on wood by OCTAVE LACOUR. 12mo, cloth, gilt, $3.00. (Uniform with "The Makers of Florence.")

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Annals of Westminster Abbey.

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A PLEA FOR SANITY.

Matthew Arnold, in one of his recently published letters, contrasted the work which he had been trying to do for England with that which Renan had sought to do for France. To stimulate the ethical sense of his fellow-countrymen was the task to which the great Frenchman applied himself, conscious of the fact that intelligence had outrun morality as an element of the national life. Arnold felt that his own peculiar task was the obverse of this, since the masses of the English people were not so much lacking in moral sense as they were deficient in the higher sort of intelligence connoted by the terms "sweetness and light" of which the English critic made so much. Or, to recall those other terms about which the finely cultured mind of the Englishman took delight in playing, the English spirit suffered from a preponderance of Hebraism over Hellenism. This criticism had all the more force for coming from a thinker whose insistence upon the ethical side of life was unfailing, and who allotted to conduct, as the weightiest of all human concerns, no less than three-fourths of the sum total of ideal human effort.

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We suppose that many a thoughtful American has asked himself which of the two influ- the moral or the intellectual more needed in his own country. A prima facie judgment would be likely to pronounce for the latter, in view of the fact that we are primarily an English people, sharing with our kinsmen over-sea the common store of English sympathies, ideals, and social traditions. But upon reflection there comes to mind some thought of that added drop of nervous fluid by which Colonel Higginson assures us that we are differentiated from the parent stock, some thought of the alien elements that have been injected into our social organism and as yet imperfectly assimilated, some thought of the national temper that has resulted from our isolation, our complex history, our unexampled material prosperity, and our frank acceptance of the great democratic experiment with all that it implies. And when we take all these things into account, viewing them in the light of recent political happenings, of the present state of public opinion revealed by press, pul

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