The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-05-27

been received from the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company No. Al Barclay street. N. Y. Contents as
follows
l. The African Slave Trade.
H. P!inys Letters.
III. The Natural" Philosophy of History,
", Our position in India.
V. Recent Political Memoirs.
VI. Savage Life the Western Tribes of North
America.
VII. Merchant Shipping Legislation.
Contemporary Literature.
THE African Slave Trade" England has taken
upon herself the right to stop the slave trade when
ever she can do so without infringing the rights
of other nations" and this article is written with
the object of rousing her 10 greater exeron in be
half of the natives of Central Africa who are such
fearful sufferers from that traffic.
"Pliny's Letters is another volume Of the trans.
lations of the Ancient Classics which the Messrs.
Blackwood are publishing for the benefit Of the
unlearned. They were written al u time when the
Greek language was becoming very fashionable in
Rome when elegance Of style was the aim Of wri-
tiers, and pedantry regned supreme. Some of the
customs of the country, and Of country life at the
the opinions concerning the Christians of those
early days, and the state of religious opinion.
The Natural Philosophy OF History" at is the
object Of this essay to explain what is meant by
the natural philosophy Of history, and to show,
by II sufficiently suggestive enumeration of in
stances how close is the analogy treated of by Mr..
Spent er in his essay Social Organism, and else
where between the physical and political world
to try to explain historical phenomena by the pro-
ceSses assumed to prevail in the development o.
the organic world; in other words, to show that
the laws which have been traced in the evolution
Of organic species may be traced no less in the evO
luton political societies"
"Our Position in India" seems to be unsatisfac-
tory The questions discussed are the re-organi.
zation Of the native army the treatment Of the
native ieudatory states, the systems OF taxation OF
railway and irrigation, education, and the claims
the natives of India to full share IN the ad
ministiation OF their country.
Recent Political Memoirs" A long notice with
many quotations, of the much reviewed Grevlle
Memoirs particularly the political portions which
are compared with the "Recollections and Sugges
tons of Lord Russell and the Life and Times
| Oh LOru bTOugHdln
savage Life" is a review of Bancrofts Native
Races of the Pacific States of North America,
which consists ofa series of pictures of savage life
among all the tribes living on the Western sea-
board, between the Artic Ocean and the Caribbean
Sea II describes the food fashions, manners. and
customs Of all these people, some of which are
very amusing
Merchants Shipping Legislation advocates
Government inspection and compulsory registra
tod
A large space is devoted to the notices Of Con-
temporary Literature, in which are comprised all
the best recent works on Theology, Philosophy,
Politics, Sociology, Voyages, etc,
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