The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17

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"Our Land and Land Policy" by Henry
George, is to be published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. This volume contains some
of his most valuable contributions to the
literature of our land policy, to which his
attention was first turned by a remarka-
able map Reproduced as 4 frontispiece to
the volume) showing the holdings of the
railroad in California to be practically all
of the State exclusive of large cities, deS-
erts and mOuntainsi Some of the con-
tents are: Our Land and Land Policy:
The Lands of the United States. The
Lands of California, Land and Labor,
The Tendency of Our Present Land Pol
icy, What Our Land Policy Should Be;
The Study Of Political Economy; The
American Republic; The Crime of Power
ty; Land aud Taxation: Thou Shalt Not
Steal" To Workingmen; THY Kingdom
Come" Justice the Disqualification the
Means; Causes of the Business Depres-
sion; Peace by Standing Army
Among the new editions issued by Rand,
McNally & Co. in their popular Oriental
Library. paper covers. are the following:
In Hampton Roads" by Charles Eu-
gene Banks and George Cram Cook; The
Launching of a Man" by Stanley Wa
terloo; Judge Elbridge," by Opie Read;
The Lady of the Garden, by Marah
Ellis Ryan; "A Married Man" by Fran
y
Socket" by Adeline Sergeant.
A book on The American Negro by
William Hannibal Thomas was published
by the Macmillan Company not long ago,
for what reason it is difficult to say. There
is not much logic, and considerably less
truth. in the work and it now appears
that the author has a record as unsavory
his writing. He is said to have been
arrested for stealing church funds, and
to have gotten himself into trouble with
two three institutions of learning with
which he has been connected. through MS
lack of regard for various phases OF the
moral law. The opinions of that kind OF
man are not worth much on any subject,
especially one on which accurate informa-
ton is so desirable.
These amusing paragraphs are clipped
from Havelock Ellis latest volume en-
titled The Nineteenth Century" and just
published by Small, Maynard < Co. Two
men, centuries hence, are discussing the
long dead nineteenth century one of
them says:
II am glad to meet a man who has
studied the nineteenth century and
found ii interesting The few relics of
il preserved in museums affected me
so unplea sanity. and there were SO
many other things that attracted me
more"
am sure you spent your time III
a way you will never regret. But II
il is quite true that, personally, / ind
that period of civilization singulariy
fascinating.
civilization? You surely would not
go so far as to call the nineteenth CEN
fury civilized? Apart from the inhu-
mainly of those times in all the mat
teTs that most nearly concern men,
thought that even the most elementary
details Of social organization-not only
in the more fundamental matters
which were difficult to arrange, but
even in the simplest matters-were
then still unknown | have always
understood that although it was the
custom at that time to write letters
they had no international postage, that
though they We're always travelling
they had no international coinage, and
that though nations were of more i'm
portauce than we can conceive-aud,
therefore, the need of iutercommuni-
cation a primary necesSity-they had
no international language. | do not
see how YOU can speak of civilization
under such conditions.
Rufus Rockwell Wilson says in the
March ''Boukman:'
If Thackeray had been minded to
make a book out of his American eN-
periences he abandoned 1t at start
ing. AS for writing about this coun-
try" ne says in a letter from Boston
To- his old friend. Mrs. Proctor about
milk and honey. about the friends l
have found here. and who are help
ing me to procure independence for
my children, if | cut jokes against
them may / choke on the instant. If
] can say anything to show that my
name is really Makepeace, and to in
crease the source of love between the
two countries, then, please God. ! Will
The laugh dies out as we get old, you
see but the love and the truth don't.
praised be God, and / begin to think
of the responsibilities of this here pen
now writing to you with q feeling Of
no small awe. The first name heard
i'm the railroad going hence to New
York was my own by a pretty child
selling books So, here it is after tif-
teen years think /, here's the fame
they talk about My impression,
though. was one of awe and humility,
rather than eXultation. and to pray
God ! might keep honest and tell
truth always.
New Books Received.