Bcrea College Library 27, 1901 Survey of the World: Good News from Porto Rico Civil Government in the Philippines -Labor Controversies Philadelphia Franchises -South African War The French Association Bill, etc ....... 1457 The Pacification of Cuba ............ Senator Orville H. Platt 1465 II Bel Canto (Poem) ................ .... Bessie Millet 1468 The Result in Cuba .... .......... Albert Gardner Robinson 1469 The London Loving Cup .............. Powltney Bigelow 1471 Religious Situation in East Aurora ........... Elbert Hubbard 1473 Let Love be Controlled ................ Ida Rusted Harper 1477 Miss Van Cortlandt's Burglar (Story) ...... Elizabeth G. Jordan 1481 A Side Light on Editors ........... Another Literary Aspirant 1485 Organized Labor and the Trusts ......... . . Samuel Gompers J487 "Des a Li'I Cabin " (Poem) .............. Frank L. Stanton 1488 The Geology of the Soul ....... ..... . ....... Dicast 1489 The Manufacturers and the Tariff .... Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer 1491 The Quest of the Orchis (Poem) .............. R. L. Frost 1494 Book Reviews: Israel and the Nations East London Max Muller's Autobiography The "White Cottage A Century of Baptist Achievement A Year in China, 1899-1900, etc ................. 1 495 Editorials : President Schurman's Warning Reciprocity or Tariff Revision The Proposed Episcopal Canons of Marriage Urbans vs. Pagans Fourth of July Tetanus Our Vacations, etc ..... 1 503 Financial, Insurance, etc .......................... Ten Cents a Copy - Two Dollars a Year 130 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK 1494 THE INDEPENDENT nesses were so lusty and strong, not to act hastily. He earnestly beseeched them to give all the various industries a proper hearing, and it was through his influence and that of other members who are iden- tified with the textile interests in Phila- delphia that the resolutions finally passed by the body were more conservative than the declarations of the various speakers might lead one to expect. It was de- cided that the whole matter of reciproc- ity should be referred to a national reci- procity convention to be specially assem- bled by the National Association of Man- ufacturers in Philadelphia. To this meet- ing the representatives of all the indus- tries will be invited to send delegates, and after they are given a fair hearing recommendations will be framed for the guidance of the next Congress. The convention reflects a change in the sentiment of the business men of this country which has been coming on for sev- eral years, in fact ever since they first be- gan to turn their thought and attention to the foreign trade. President McKinley, whose observation no shifting in the cur- rent of public opinion escapes, has for some time foreseen this movement in popular sentiment. His strong and tact- ful speeches assure us that the welfare of the great American industries is un- der his careful scrutiny and that he is ready to second the efforts of the manu- facturers to hold their foreign markets by a liberal system of reciprocity. It is an opportunity, of course, for free traders to declaim very gleefully about a change of faith. One of the hu- morists in this convention, who is at the same time one of its most useful mem- bers, comically declared that so far as his own industry was concerned, cement manufacturing, he thought it would re- quire protection " for a few months yet." He wanted to know whether a man could not change his opinion in the course of ten years if the conditions and circumstances which originally induced him to those opinions had undergone modification. The representatives of many of the greatest industries in this country admitted in Detroit that they had changed their views regarding an im- portant economic question. They had been ardent protectionists, and they still believed in the protective principle. They honored the tariff for what it had done to develop the resources and increase the prosperity of the country. They now wished the policy modified, in order that this development and prosperity should continue without diminution or loss. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1FELT the chill of the meadow underfoot, Then at' last and following that I found But the sun o'erhead; In the very hour And snatches of verse and song of scenes When the color flushed to the petals, it must like this have been I sung or said. The far-sought flower. I skirted the margin alders for miles. and miles ^, , ,, , . ... In a sweeping line; There s f to d the P ur P le s P ires ' Wlth no breath The day was the day by every flower that ai Q r head i ong bee But I saw no sign ^ disturb their perfect poise the livelong day * '^Jp^tli tlif* 5i 1 r1pt"f~t*#*p ! INCtllH tllC tllv_ld LI CC . Yet further I went before the scythes should come, I only knelt and, putting the boughs aside, For the grass was high ; Looked, or at most Till I saw the path where the slender fox had Counted them all to the buds in the copse's come depth, And gone panting by. Pale as a ghost. Then I arose and silent wandered home, And I for one Said that the fall might come and whirl of leaves, For summer was done. WEST DERRY, N. H. LITERATURE. Israel and the Nations.* IT has long been recognized that no nation can be regarded as isolated. Every nation is a member of a community, and in its contact with its neighbors gives and takes. Israel cannot be understood unless its environment is understood. The background of its history is found by the nationalities which stood about it at greater or smaller distances. It is, therefore, a merit in Professor Mc- Curdy's work that the picture of the world in which Israel lived is sketched with fullness. For that purpose he gen- erally uses the latest discoveries in Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Hit- tite history. It is well known that the researches of the last twenty years have transformed early Canaan for us : the pe- riod which was a dreary waste has been filled with interesting persons and events. The Amarna letters enable us to see Canaan as it was two hundred years be- fore the Hebrew conquest, a land under Egyptian governors, but employing the Babylonian tongue as the language of of- ficial intercouse ; and these letters and the cuneiform monuments indicate a Baby- lonian hegemony or suzerainty reaching back possibly some centuries. We now know something of the political condi- tions that made the conquest of Canaan by the Hebrew tribes possible. After a gap of centuries the cuneiform inscrip- tions again come, in the ninth century B. C, to the aid of the historian of Israel, and continue till the capture of Babylon by Cyrus (539 B. C.). All this material Professor McCurdy weaves skillfully into his narrative. Further, he uses the writings of the Prophets to fill the gaps left by the meager accounts of the biblical historical books. In describing the external history he does not confine himself to a bare sum- mary of incidents, but seeks for the prin- ciples and ideas that guided the progress of the nation. To the religious devel- * HISTORY, PROPHECY AND THE MONUMENTS, or Israel and the Nations. By James Frederick McCu*dy, Ph />., LL.D., Professor of Oriental Languages in University College, Toronto. New York : The Macmillan Company. Three volumes. opment he pays special attention, tracing the growth of higher conceptions from the time of Moses (about 1200 B. C., as he thinks) to the end of the exile; in this part of his work he gives sympathetic and suggestive studies of the great men, including the prophets, who mark the epochs of Israelite history; his charac- terizations of David, Elijah, Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel may be specially mentioned. After briefly sketching the general history in the first volume, he returns, in the second vol- ume, to an extended description of the social life during the earlier period. Be- ginning with the clan as the fundamental political unit, he treats of the various ele- ments of society, the power of the father, the status of the wife and of children and servants, the social significance of slav- ery and polygamy, the rise of classes, the growth of an aristocracy, poor laws, the status of the resident alien, and similar topics. In this investigation he follows the principles of modern sociological science. In the same way he examines the ethical history, pointing out the ac- tual moral practice of the people as well as the more elevated ideals set up by the leaders of thought. While he recognizes a natural ethical progress, the result of better organization of society, he insists on the influence exerted on morals by the purer religious conceptions. Throughout the work he of necessity has regard to the literary activity of the nation. Particularly in the third vol- ume, in which he deals with Deuteronomy, he gives a sketch of the literature from the earliest known time to the end of the seventh century. 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