The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-07

which she calls THE Training Of Girls
for Work: an Expression of Opinion"
Students of American literature and
lovers of music have cause to study
the personality of the man who for so
long a period held the position OF au-
tocrat among Boston musical critics.
But he will be chiefly held in remem-
brance as one of that galaxy of ge-
muses. who composed the historic
Brook Farm community, perhaps the
most impracticable enterprise that
ever engaged the serious attentions of
SO many eminently practical people.
But to all three classes of readers that
we have mentioned. we are glad TO
recommend John sullivan Dwight:
Brook Farmer, Editor and Critic OF
Music; a Biography by George Will
lis Cooke.
Whatever may be ones individual
opinion of the solution, there is gem
eral agreement that few questions in
social science are of more practical
Importance than the drink question.
General Neal Dow had a varied and
useful life. but he is known so pre-
eminently by reason of his efforts to
carry out his convictions concerning
the correct solution of the liquor prob
lem that by this alone he will ever be
known. His "reminiscences" should
be of interest to friend and foe, and
each will find there the revelation of
a personality in many respects admir-
able, and permeated by strength of
character and devotion to duty.
With all the books about law and
all that we know about lawyers. the
literature of the court room is sur
prisingly meagre. Ex-Attorney Cen
eral A. H. Garland has almost pro-
duced a book on new subject, when
he has given us Experience in the SUI
preme Court of the United States"
Perhaps the most practical of phil
anthropic movements Is that which
takes the promoter into the Sums of
our great cities, there to live with the
people and to endeavor to raise them
to higher social ideal and endeavors.
A very short handbook of such asso-
ciated work is Social Settlements" by
G. r. Henderson.
prisons and Prisoners" by ]. w:
Horsley, is an attempt more to de-
scribe the exact conditions and modes
of thought of our offenders than to
formulate theoretical conceptions of
them.
The first volume of the proceedings Of
1.-THE International Folk Lore Con-
gress of the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition,' held at Chicago in July, 1893,
has just appeared and contains many
articles of value on the subject.
One of the recent departments of
develop into a science, deals with the
history, possibilities and limitations of
woman. To those interested in this
subject. the following books will APP
peal Woman in France During the
Eighteenth Century" by Julia Kav-
anagh Studies in the Psychology of
Woman" by Laura Marholm, and
woman and Economies" by Char
lotte Perkins Stetson.
Charles William Macfarlane's
"Value and Distribution: an Histori-
cal, Critical and Constructive Study in
Economic Theory, Adapted for Ad-
vanced and POSTGRADUATE Work
Indian Currency" by Henry Dunn
ing Macleod" "A Story From Pull
mantown," by Nico Bech- Meyer, and
Manual of Distributive Cooperation. .
by Carroll d. Wright, are works of
value to the political economist.
Walter Thomas Mills is known as
an honest and original thinker in the
| field of political science. His "Evo-
| lutionary Politics: Addresses and Es-
| saps' will be found to contain much
suggestive thought.
| Much good educative work is being
accomplished by the annual national
conferences for good city government
| 1t is a satisfaction that the library