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 THE DIAL S?emi=ilKantf)lg Sournal of ILiterarg Criticism, JUiscuasion, ano Information, THE DIAL (founded in 1880) is published on the 1st and 16th of each month. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 82.00 a year in advance, postage prepaid in the United States, Canada, and Mexico ; in other countries comprised in the Postal Union, 50 cents a year for extra postage must be added. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin with the current number. REMITTANCES should be by check, or by express or postal order, payable to THE DIAL. SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS and for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application ; and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furnished on application. All communications should be addressed to THE DIAL, No. 24 Adams Street, Chicago. No. 179. DECEMBER 1, 1893. Vol. XV. CONTEXTS. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED STATES 327 AN INSULAR COMMENT ON AN INTERNA- TIONAL ENTERPRISE 329 THE TARIFF ON BOOKS 330 CONSUELO : Two SONNETS. W. E. Perkins ... 330 COMMUNICATIONS 331 Creative Art in Literature. John G. Dow, Cardinal Newman Versus Se. F. H. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN NATURALIST. E.G.J 333 A NEW HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. O. L. Elliott 336 LIFE WITH TRANS-SIBERIAN SAVAGES. Fred- erick Starr 338 RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne ... 340 Benson's Dodo. Mrs. Steel's Miss Stuart's Legacy. Howells's The Coast of Bohemia. Frederic's The Copperhead. Crawford's Marion Darche. Jack- son's The Son of a Prophet. Du Chaillu's Ivar the Viking. Mrs. Harrison's Sweet Bells Out of Tune. Miss Brown's The Petrie Estate. Mrs. Gather- wood's The White Islander. Wedmore's Pastorals of France. Doyle's My Friend the Murderer. Sien- kiewicz's Yanko the Musician. Miss Harrison's Short Stories. Aldrich's Two Bites at a Cherry. James's the Wheel of Time. HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS 344 Chapin's Masters and Masterpieces of Engraving. Beckford's Vathek. Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth. Wright's The Fables of La Fontaine. Mrs. Clement's The Queen of the Adriatic. Van Dyke's The Christ-Child in Art. Baudot's Letters from My Mill. The Century Gallery. Anstey's The Man from Blankley's. Dodge's Riders of Many Lands. Ruy Bias. Miss Fielde's Chinese Nights En- tertainments. Sheridan's The Rivals. Mrs. Rich- ards's Glimpses of the French Court. Dobson's Mem- oir of Horace Walpole. Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York. Mrs. Spofford's A Norse Romance. Carlyle's French Revolution. Mrs. De- land's The Old Garden. Page's Meh Lady. Long- fellow's The Hanging of the Crane. Miss Jewett's Deephaven. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. Ware's Aurelian, Emperor of Rome. Mrs. Barr's The Bow of Orange Ribbon. CON TENTS -Continued. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG 348 Newell's Topsys and Turvys. Cox's The Brownies at Home. Oilman's The Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia. Marthold's The History of a Bearskin. Jacobs's More English Fairy Tales. Hume's The Chronicles of Fairy Land. Mrs. Richards's Melody. Miss Howard's No Heroes. Ouida's A Dog of Flan- ders. Mrs. Champney's Six Boys. Lang's The True Story Book. Mrs. Burnett's The One I Knew the Best of All. Henty's St. Bartholomew's Eve. Henty's Through the Sikh War. Henty's A Jacob- ite Exile. Butterworth's The Boys of Greenway Court. Stoddard's Guert Ten Eyck. Stoddard's On the Old Frontier. Munroe's The White Conquerors. Mrs. Seelye's The Story of Washington. Ellis's River and Wilderness Series. Ellis's Across Texas. Optic's A Victorious Union. Optic's American Boys Afloat. Knox's Boy Travellers in Southern Europe. Coryell's Diccon the Bold. Jenks's World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls. NEW YORK TOPICS. Arthur Sledman 351 LITERARY NOTES AND MISCELLANY .... 332 Sonnets to Professor Jowett. Professor Jebb's Trib- ute to Jowett. Tributes to Edwin Booth. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. . 353 THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED STA TES. The corner stone of the building which is to be the permanent home of the Chicago Public Library has just been laid, with the ceremonies usual upon such occasions, and the Newberry Library has just transferred its collections to the magnificent structure that has been in process of erection for two years past. These occurrences, which mean so much for the intellectual future of Chicago, make a few remarks upon the libraries of the United States peculiarly appro- priate at the present time. As a basis for such remarks, there comes to us, at the same time, a "Circular of Information" from the National Bureau of Education, giving the most reef nt statistics upon the subject of our public libra- ries. The statistics are for the year 1891, which is as nearly up to date as could be ex- pected of a report prepared by the deliberate methods of our official collectors of such ma- terials. The present report is the third of the sort that has been issued by the Bureau of Educa- tion, the two preceding ones having appeared in 1876 and 1885, respectively. The report