The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States. By the Rev. ELISHA MULFORD, LL. D. 8vo, $2.50.

CONTENTS: The Substance of the Nation; The Nation as Defined in Theories; The Origin of the Nation as Defined in Theories; The Origin of the Nation; The People and the Land; The Nation the Institution of Rights; The Nation the Realization of Freedom; The Sovereignty of the Nation; The Nation and its Constitution; The Nation and its Rights of Sovereignty; The Nation and its Normal Powers; The Nation and its Representative Constitution; The Nation and its Relation to other Nations; The Nation and the Individual; The Nation and the Family; The Nation and the Commonwealth; The Nation the Antagonist of the Confederacy; The Nation the Antagonist of the Empire; The Nation the Integral Element in History; The Nation the Goal of History.

It is a very able discussion of what is to me one of the most important branches of political philosophy. Every page I have read surprises me with the extent and thoroughness of the author's study, and the freshness and vigor of his discussion. Hon. JAMES A. GARFIELD, President of the United States.

Mr. Mulford's "The Nation" is not only by far the most profound and exhaustive study in the field of speculative politics that American scholarship has yet produced, but we shall be obliged to go very far back in the literary annals of our mother-country to find anything worthy of comparison with it.-J. L. DIMAN, late Professor of History in Brown University.

It is so complete in its argument, moves so steadily to its own high end, and is so novel in American literature, for its wealth of political knowledge. Hon. Wayne McVeaGH, Attorney-General of the United States.

I have read "The Nation" from the first to the last with constant interest and sympathy. It is a most important contribution to our political literature, and cannot fail to strengthen and elevate our national life. Hon. CHARLES SUMNER.

The bracing effect of your late contest for freedom is manifest in its protest against commercial theories and pale abstractions which are wearing at the life of England. - F. D. MAURICE.

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A Study in American Politics.

By WOODROW WILSON, Fellow in History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Third Edition. 16mo, $1.25.

Mr. Wilson institutes a comparison of Congressional government with the Parliamentary government of Great Britain, indicating their points of likeness and of difference, and touches briefly on German and French Parliamentary governHe also points out the marked and progressive departure of Congress from the programme designed for it by the framers of the Constitution.

One of the most important books, dealing with political subjects, which have ever issued from the American press. His book is evidently modeled on Mr. Bagehot's "English Constitution," and it will, though the praise is so high as to be almost extravagant, bear comparison with that inestimable work. New York Evening Post.

The most important study of our Government as it is now working, and indeed the only study of it worthy the name, is "Congressional Government." It ought to be in the hands of every man interested in politics, and of every student of our political institutions. It is not a long treatise, but it is the one that we should recommend to an inquiring Englishman seeking to know exactly how our Government is now carried on. -Hartford Courant.

Remarkable for the writer's acuteness of observation, grasp of principles, and skill in putting things. . . . We commend the book to every young man who takes any interest in politics. Its equal for originality and clearness will not be met every day. The Examiner (New York).

The most suggestive and striking discussion of our Government which has appeared in recent years. We have not space to set forth at great length the writer's virile and suggestive criticism of our governmental methods, but we commend the book to all who aim to understand or to improve our Federal administration. - The Capital (Washington).

An admirable study and a very acute criticism of our methods of government. . . . The book is eminently a suggestive one; where it does not compel agreement, it compels thought. It is written in a keen, incisive manner. - Boston Journal.

The best critical writing on the American Constitution which has appeared since "The Federalist." - Minneapolis Tribune.

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