The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-09
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NEW FOBLlCA IONS.
Wages and Capital. An Examination
Ct the Wages Fund Doctrine. By f. w.
Taussig, professor of political economy
in Harvard University. (New York: d.
Appleton & Company; Portland: Lor-
ing. Short & Harmony Prot. Taussig
has divided his work into two parts; the
first dealing with his own views of the
relation of capital to wages, End tho
wage fund, and the second giving he
history of the wage fund discussion from
the beginning up to the present time
The first part is divided into five chap
tiers, the first treating Of present work
and wages; the second of capital and
wages; the third of the machinery Of dis
tribution; the fourth Of tho elasticity of
true wage fund; and the fifth of tho con-
illusions to be drawn from established
facts. Part second takes up the views of
distinguished political economists,
such as Adam Smith, Ricardo, John
Stuart Mill, Longe, Thorn ton and Cairnes.
In chapter fifteen the results of the two
parts are summed Up. The book is pro-
vided with an index.
McKinloy's Masterpieces. Selections
from the public addresses in and out Of
Congress of William Mckinley Edited
by Il. S. Paget. (Boston: Joseph Knight
Company The book opens with BIZ
hi oh +oJ, Of AT,, I'll ;r,l, I'll
lowed by extracts from his speeches on
the following general topics: The Repnb-
lican Party; The PFoteo tive Tariff; The
Purity OF the Ballet: Finance; The In
terests Of Labor; Educational Topics;
Religion; Memorial Day and Patriotism !;
Eulogies on Garfield, Grant, Logan and
ard four occasional adjlressesn
Oh New England and the Future, July
fourth at Woodstock, Dedication of the
Ohio Building, and The Business Man
in Politics.. The selections have been
well made ard give good idea of Nc.
Kinley's opinions and his oratorical
powers.
On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds
Twenty-eight Hundred Miles after Musk
Oxen and Wood Bison. By Caspar Whit
rev, author OF A Sporting Pilgrimage
(New York: Harper & Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short g. Harmon Mr..
Whitney's interesting narrative of his
adventures in the Barren Grounds in
North western British America, which
has been published in Harper's Maya
zine, is row published in book form, and
makes a very elegant volume, with its
broad margines, thiok paper, and fire
no less than one hundred
and fifteen in number.
With the Fathers. Studies in the His
tory Of the United States. By John
Bach McMaster professor of American
History in the University of Pennsyl-
yania. author Of A History Of the People
of the United States. (New York: D.
Appleton & Company; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short g. HARMONY This volume is
made up of thirteen essays which origi-
nally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly,
Century Magazine and Harper's Maya
zine Tho topics treated are The Mon
roe Doctrine; The Third Term Ira
dition; Tie Politicl Depravity of tie
Fathers; The Riotous Career of the
Know Nothings: The Trainers and the
Framing Of the Constitution; Washing
toms Inauguration: A Century of Con-
Interpretation; A Contury's
Struggle for Silver; Is Sound Finance
Possible under Popular Government?
Franklin in France: How the British
Lett New York; The Struggle fer Terri
tory; Four Centuries of Progress.
Beneath Old Roof Trees. BY AGam
English Brown, author of History of
Bedford etc. Illustrated (Thc footprints
OF the Patriots). Boston: Lee g. Shop
ard; Portland: Loripg, Short & Har-
inon.) This volume is a most delightful
view OF the opening of the Revolution.
The author is well known in historical
circles and as a story writer. He has
through ten years of reportorial work
come in touch with scores of New Enu-
land reople still living on old home
steada, occupied by their parents or
at the time of tho alarm
of April 10. 1775, and there he has heard
the story Of personal experience renorted
by the descendants OF those who at
their own doors or in the highway faced
the army of the King. While deliueating
in his characteristic manner the story
of Lexington and Concord the author
has most happily shown the part taken
by other towns in that memorable dov,s
experience. So faithfully has he caught
the spirit of the times of which he writes
that one cannot read this book without
himself feeling that he is participant
for the hour in those trying scenes. Not