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the Roman people to throw off their allegiance
AN allegiance which was of the shadowiest
and brought no protection in return-to the
byzantine emperor, and to choose the Pope as
tneir sovereign, and asserts that their action
cannot be justified. That is strange doctrine
for an American citizen to advance, even in
the hundredth year of our independence.
ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY BY Frederick
DssIlat With notes by David A. Wells. New
YORK; q. P. Putnam's Sons. For sale by LoriDg,
Short & Harmon,
Inc volume embracing the selected essays
OF Bastat is the breviary of modern free trad
ers iheir admiration for it is we'll founded,
1or tne principles of their economic school have
never oeen, by other writer's, so clearly and
aptly presented. go happily illustrated. The
French writer not only possessed complete
knowledge of his subject, at least of his side of
the subject, but be had the power of readily
and attractively communicating that knowl-
edge, and his expositons and illustrations ara
acknowledged to be more lucid and convincing
than those of almost any other author. His
manner of presenting bis case presents sim
gular charm even to those who most widely
differ with him in his statement of political
economy.
The present edition, which appears in one of
"Putnam's Popular Manuals" is edited by
David A. Wells, indisputably the highest free
trade authority in America. His work has
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text, and drawn mainly from the recent eco
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W. W. Hall. New York: r. Worthington. For
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This treatise on disease to which A Americans
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oh oil fofi &c E.
dyspepsia to the deprivation of all these things.
The only recommendation which will COM
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BILE.
But for all these exaggerations of wise pre-
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Poem, Novel and Essay.
Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and
Mary Lamb. New York: Harper Brothers
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony The
charming, quaint tales from Shakespeare S
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