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Lesson." By Rudolf Cronan. McClure's, v. 34, p. 183 (Dec.).

"The licy of conservation that made German orestry such a success is applied also to agriculture. . ..

Deserted farms, which

as a result of soil exhaustion can be found all over the eastern half of the United States, are absolutely unknown in Germany." Fiction. “The Unjust Judge." By John Luther Long. Success, v. 12, p. 777 (Dec.). The ﬁrst installment of a readable story in

intelligent and just system of proﬁt-sharing beteeen carrier and shipper embodied in reasonable rates will best promote the pros perity of both and enlarge the common heri tage, is not the least of the contributions made by the Northwest to the development of the nation and the world within the last fifty years." South America. "The Individuality of the South-American Republics." By Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., LL.D. North American Re view, v. 190, p. 785 (Dec.).

two parts, dealing with a criminal trial.

"They are as distinctive in their national Hilwry. "The Story of the Santa Fé Trail." By Charles M. Harvey. Atlantic, v. 104, p. 774 (Dec.).

“In the later sixties and early seventies from ﬁve to eight million dollars in merchan dise passed over the trail annually, for New

Mexico and California.” Manchuril. "Manchuria, Desired of Na tions.” By George Marvin. Outlook, v. 93,

p. 671 (Nov. 27). "After all the treaties and the notes and the lapse of years, the deﬁnition of the ‘o n door’ does not seem identical in all n guagﬁs."

T '5 article, however, does not pretend to discuss the political situation, but merely

describes the country. Mexico. “Barbarous Mexico—III, With the Contract Slaves of the Valle Nacional."

American Magazine, v. 69, p. 250 (Dec.). "The towns in the valley provide police

characteristics, their aspirations, their hopes

and their patriotism as the countries of Europe that lie side by side and occupy a much smaller territory than South America." Sugar Trust. “Spreckels and the Phila delphia Sugar Trust Fight." By Judson C. Welliver.

Hampton's, v. 23, p. 755 (Dec.).

"The ﬁrst case which the Sn reme Court of the United States decided un er the Sher man law was the case of United States v. E. C.

Knight Company et al. .. . The eﬁ'ect of ' that victory was to convince the country that the anti-trust act was worthless.”

"The Rebate Conspiracy." Norcross.

By Charles P.

Cosmopolitan, v. 48, p. 65 (Dec.).

“The me [of getting unlawful rebates] was worked rom so many an les that it became a perfect maze. It must ave run into hun dreds of thousands of dollars a year." Taft’s Administration. “Eight Months of President Taft." By Sydney Brooks. Fort nightly Review, v. 86, p. 903 (Nov.).

men to hunt runaway slaves, not one of whom

can get out of the valley without passing through them. Every runaway slave brings a reward of $10 to the man or policeman who catches and returns him to his owner."

Opium Tra-ﬂic.

“The American Opium

Peril: Growing Use in this Country of a Drug That Elsewhere has Slain its Millions." By Hugh C. Weir.

Putnam's, v. 7, p. 329 (Dec.)_

“Opium is not a foe to be con uered by halfway measures. use must be checked entirely Either or not its at ille allg. (i We have prohibited it absolutely in our Philippine territory. We must also prohibit it in our American territory." Railways. “Highways of Progress; II, From Minnesota to the Sea." By James J Hill.

World's Work, v. 19, p. 12339 (Dec.).

"The embodiment in practice of the prin ciple that railroading is a business enterprise and not a s culation; that its chief interest is in the ﬁel, the factory and the mine rather than upon the stock exchange; that the

"He found ready to hand the atmosphere and the state of mind most pro itious for the kind of constructive work in w 'ch he excels. He has, moreover, a reﬂective, probing, dis entangling mind; he is strong, cautious, and

serene; 111$ mountainous geniality makes in numerable friends and no enemies; he is almost startlingly unprovoca 've; his gift of lubricat ing Sagacity is precise y the gift most likely to ensure harmony between the White House and Congress; and he is thoroughly experi enced in the work of administration. . . . "But there is no essential difference in the aims and spirit of the two men [Roosevelt and Taft]; the difference is one of manner and training merely; and if Wall Street is misled by Mr. Taft’s moderation of speech and bearin into the belief that the days of McKine and Hanna are about to re-visit the lan,

Wall Street will ﬁnd itself pro

digiously mistaken.

Mr. Taft will talk less

and in milder tones than Mr. Roosevelt, but

he is likely to accom lish more, if by accom plishment is meant the translation of policies into laws."