Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
LATE PUBLICATIONS.
New Books That Have Been Received Dur
ing the Week.

ing the Week.
''The Railway Problem" anew work ontht
subject, sufficiently designated by its title
Is rather unexpected contribution. The
author, Mr.. A. B. Stickney, has spent his life
in the railway service, and is now President
of one of the Northwestern corporations
Yet he writes with freedom from the influ
ences that are supposed to constitute the
railway environment that is entirely excep-
tional. 1t is not probable that any writers
among the many that have Joined in this i'm
portant discussion have been able to so COM
pletelY divest themselves OF the influences
which would act their view of the question
as Mr.. Stiokney.
This railway president has the freedom
and frankness to recognize not only the in
Justice and wrong of individual discrinina-
tlons, as most intelligent men now do but to
show the injury of determinations between
localities, which railway men find it hard to
perceive, and to charge both evils to the false
methods and mistaken precedents of rail-
way practice. Moreover, Mr. Stickney turns
the entire railway case upside down by COM
pletely exposing and disprOving all the cor
pOrate assertions of the injury done by
western legislation, and the Justification OF
pooling wars. He completely riddles the
formal assertions of Mr.. Alexander Mitchell
and Mr.. o. D. Ashley. His proof that it is
not legislation or the acts of commissions
that have injured the railways, but "the
mismanagement of the companies" makes
tions to railway literature.
Nevertheless Mr.. Stickney is not able to
completely rise above his environment. He
has the usual railway mans fear of the
demon of competition; and therefore reaches
his conclusion in the legislative prescription
of rates for the entire country. He fails to
perceive, as is natural for a railway man to
do, that the competitions which he fears are
really the eccentricitieS of restricted and
hampered force concentrating all its
strength at q few points, or that the wars of
rates to which he justly charges the injury of
railway interests are as truly a result of the
which are held in view all through these
cutthroat contests. With that failure it is in
evitable that he should not conceive how the
establishment of even an untrammelled
competition would do away with all these
wrongs.
This is the weak point of Mr.. Stickney's
valuable work. We cannot agree with his
conclusions; but his frank and unprejudiced
statements of fact give his work peculiar
value and authority. 1t is published by d.
d. Merrill & Co., st. Paul.
The following new books have been re-
ceived during the week: Biography of Dio
Lewis" NJ. D., by Mary +. Eastman. Pub
lished by Fowler, Wells & Co., New York; j.
R. Weldin, Pittsburg.
Interest and Success" by Rev. George
Sumner Weaver, d. d. Published by Fowler,
Wells Co., New York; j. r. Weldin s. Co.,
Pittsburg.
"A COlOnIai helOr1ner,' Dy ROlf BOldre-
wood. Macmillan & Co., publishers, New
York; j. r. Weldin, Pittsburg.
'The Enchanted" by John Bell Bouton
Publishers, Cassell q Co., New York; j. r.
Weldin, Pittsburg.
Hints to Power Users" by Robert Green
shaw, M. Z. Publishers, Cassell & Co., New
York; j. R. Weldin. Pittsburg
Health Without Medicine by Theodore
Fl. Mead. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York pub
fishers; j. r. Weldin & Co., Pittsburg.
"My Lady Nicotine" by J. W. Barrie; Cas-
sell Publishing Company, New York; j. r.
Weldin & Co., Pittsburg.
younger American Poets-1S30 1890, edited
by Douglas Sladen, B. A, with an appendix
Bliss Roberts. The Cassell Pub
fishing Company, New York; j. K. Weldin &
Co., Pittsburg.
"Down the Ohio" by Charles Humphrey
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago; J. 4.
Weldin & Co., Pittsburg.
"The Best Fifty Books of the Greatest Au-
thors," condensed for busy people. Sketches
Of the entire contents of the 80 most famous
works in the whole range of literature Pub
ished by Nineteenth Century Book Con-
,ern, Buffalo, n. Y. j. r. Weldin & Co., Pitts
burg.
A Series of poems by Douglas W. B. sladen,
The Spanish Serenade," Edward, the |
Black Prince" an epic drama. Cassell Pub |
ishing Co., New York; j. R. Weldin & Co.,
2lttsburg.
"a Lost Jewel" by Harriet Prescott Spof- |
ord. Lee & Shepard, publishers, Boston; J.
g. Weldin Il Co., Pittsburg.
"The Life of Ferdinand Magellan" and the |
First Circumnavigation of the Globe" by |
!. Ill. ii. Guillemard, NJ. ID.