JUPITER'S SATELLITES... KALI, THE DIVINATION-STONE OF .Saturday Review..... Blackwood's Magazine..... KEATS, THE LIFE-Mask or. By Louise Chandler Moulton...Academy.......... 664 .......................142, 287, 430, 575, 715, 858 Blackwood's Magazine.. National Review..... Academy. Fortnightly Review.. ....Saturday Review. Macmillan's Magazine...... PRESIDENCY, THE CONTEST FOR THE. By Professor Goldwin PRIGS, AN EXHIBITION OF.......... RAT-CATCHER OF HAMELN, THE. By Gustav Hartwig.. RESTORATION, Town LIFE UNDER THE. By William Connor Nineteenth Century............. Gentleman's Magazine...... SCIENCE, RECENT, By Prince Kropotkin. SHADY TRUTHS. By Right Hon. L. H. Courtney, M.P SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.. SHELLEY'S CENTENARY. By William Watson... SOCIETY IN ANCIENT VENICE. By Charles Edwardes.. SONNETS, A SEQUENCE OF. From The Emancipation SPEECH. By Sir Herbert Maxwell.. ... Contemporary Review.... ...... 225 473 235 798 524 703 670 504 818 65 771 565 525 Blackwood's Magazine.... 549 367 433 16 500 401 388 99 761 479 96 205 162 692 STAR IN AURIGA, NEW. By William Huggins, F.R.S. TENNYSON'S THEOLOGY.. THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT, 1 HE. By William Watson. Spectator... TRACE. By J. M. Soames.. TRAGEDY, THE GREAT WATER-CRESS.. ........... TRIAL BY LYNCH LAW, A. By R. B. Townshend. .... ... Contemperary Review........ TURKISH MARRIAGES VIEWED FROM A HAREM. By Adalet.... Nineteenth Century.... ........... UNGANDA, SIDE-LIGHTS ON. By Rev. Horace Waller... ......Nineteenth Century UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; CIVILIZATION, SOCIAL ORDER, AND MORALITY IN THE... Blackwood's Magazine. UNIVERSITY OF FEZ TO-DAY, THE. By Stephen Bonsal, Jr.. Fortnightly Review VASSILI. By Sidney Pickering..... VOLDOMIR, THE PRINCESS OF. By Mary Costello...... WESTMINSTER ABBEY, OCTOBER 12, 1892, IN. By John Tod hunter........ WILLIAM AND BISMARCK.. Macmilian's Magazine CIVILIZATION, SOCIAL ORDER, AND MORALITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,* EXACTLY a year ago an article appeared in this Magazine, which in temperate language, and on the proof of admitted facts, demonstrated that the corruptions of Republican government had resulted in the United States in widespread despotism and anarchy. To the American citizen who uses his eyes and reads his daily newspaper, the facts adduced could scarcely have been a revelation; but indignant national feeling chose to look upon them in the light of a calumnious impeachment. Evidently the Americans do not put up the poet's petition for a power to "see ourselves as others see us; nor do they concede to the foreigner the same candor *This article is offered to the readers of THE ECLECTIC as an amusing illustration of that exaggerated and malignant view of the United States which still exists among English writers of a certain class. It need scarcely be said that its deliberate venom defeats its own ob. ject.-EDITOR ECLECTIC. NEW SERIES.-VOL. LVI., No. 1. as they tolerate in their own organs of public opinion. Nevertheless, Europe has a claim to criticise the working of American institutions that cannot be denied. The stream of population which flows from the European States into the Western Republic, gives us a direct interest in the administration of the laws and the inaintenance of liberty in the land where these emigrants make for themselves a home either temporarily or permanently; and in the case where it becomes the refuge of the malcontent subjects of a European Power, that Power is interested in inquiring whether the central executive of the United States has either the ability or the disposition to prevent such a class from using its territories as a pied à-terre. for prosecuting its original quarrel with the mother country. There is another and not less urgent reason why the nations of Europe should critically examine the results of American |