THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE.

VOL. CXXX.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

1880.

COPYRIGHT BY

ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE.

1880.

CONTENTS OF VOL. CXXX.

THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL. By Count FERDINAND DE LES-
SEPS, Member of the Institute of France

THE WOMAN QUESTION AGAIN. By FRANCIS PARKMAN

ROMANISM AND THE IRISH RACE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Part II. By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

SAINTE-BEUVE. By HENRY JAMES, Jr.

THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE. BY ALEXANDER WINCHELL,

By

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1

16

31

51

RECENT POETRY: Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia;

Robert D. Joyce's Blanid; The Poetical Works of

Bayard Taylor. By RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND MODERN SOCIETY.

92

By his

Eminence HENRY EDWARD Cardinal MANNING, Arch-

bishop of Westminster

THE THIRD TERM. By TIMOTHY O. HOWE

101

116

M. DE LESSEPS AND HIS CANAL. BY DANIEL AMMEN, Rear-

NOW AND THEN IN AMERICA. By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA 147

M175.

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. By JAMES C. WEL-

LING, LL. D., President of Columbian University.

RECENT ENGLISH BOOKS. I. Sacred Books of China and

India. II. Machiavelli and his Times. III. The Home

of the Eddas. By MAYO W. HAZELTINE

THE THIRD TERM: Reasons against it. By Judge J. S.

BLACK

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163

186

197

THE THIRD TERM: Reasons for it. By E. W. STOUGHTON 224

THE COMMUNISM OF A DISCRIMINATING INCOME-TAX. By

DAVID A. WELLS

CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. By the Rev. HENRY W. BEL-

LOWS, D. D.

236

247

OUR POLITICAL DANGERS. By Professor SIMON NEWCOMв 261

MR. FROUDE'S HISTORICAL METHOD. By the Right Rev. J.

L. SPALDING, D. D., Bishop of Peoria

280

RECENT BIOGRAPHY. I. The Life and Works of Gilbert

Stuart. II. The Letters of Charles Dickens. III. Me-

moirs of Madame de Rémusat. By EUGENE L. DIDIER 300

MCCLELLAN'S LAST SERVICE TO THE REPUBLIC. Part I. By

GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS

309

RELATIONS OF CANADA WITH THE UNITED STATES. By the

Hon. Sir FRANCIS HINCKS, K. C. M. G., C. B.

338

THE FAILURE OF THE SOUTHERN PULPIT.

By the Rev.

DAVID SWING

356

GENERAL GRANT AND A THIRD TERM. By GEORGE S. BOUT-

WELL

370