THE ARENA

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COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY ALBERT BRANDT

Printed at THE BRANDT PRESS, Trenton, N. J., U. S A

CONTENTS.

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How to Smash the Cable Ring: Benjamin Franklin and Marconi,....J. HENNIKER HEATON, M.P.,

Two Successful Experiments in Civic Government: Galveston and Houston, Texas. I. Galveston,

GEORGE WHARTON JAMES 8

Massachusetts' Historic Attitude in Regard to Representative Government: The Teachings of the

Fathers,.
...ROBERT TREAT PAINE, JR. 14

THOMAS MCGRADY 18

REV. WILLIAM R. BUSHBY, LL.M. 28

.....WILLIAM MAILLY 35

The Catholic Church and Socialism,.

"What Is Truth?".

The Season's Social Drama (Illustrated),.

The People's Institute of New York and Its Work for the Development of Citizenship Along Democratic

Lines (Illustrated),.

The Fallacies of Christian Science,..

The Truths of Christian Science: A Reply,....

The Government-Owned Railways of New Zealand,..

Theodor Barth: Germany's Leading Liberal Statesman,

The Sweep of Economic Events in the Light of History,.

Coletta Ryan: An Idealistic Singer of the Coming Day,. . . . .

The Dramas of Oscar Wilde,....

The Curse and Blight of Partisanship,.

Houston and Its City Commission,.

Prenatal Education,...

.PROFESSOR CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH 49

.EDWARD C. FARNSWORTH 52

JOHN BUCKLEY WILLIS, A.M. 61

.A. A. BROWN 113

.MAYNARD BUTLER 117

.PHILLIP RAPPAPORT 120

.B. O. FLOWER 128

PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, PH.D. 134

.C. VEY HOLMAN, LL.M. 139

.GEORGE WHARTON JAMES 144

ARTHUR SMITH 149

The Revolution in Economics from Ancient Times to the Birth of Socialism,..ERNEST UNTERMANN 154

Is Mr. Roosevelt a Failure?......

The Voyage of the Soul: An Allegory,.

Car Number Seven,..

The Cable Telegraph Systems of the World,....

Senator Robert M. La Follette for President,.

The Anomaly of Capital Punishment,....

Victor Hugo: Critic, Prophet and Philosopher,...

The Meaning of the Invasion of European Socialism,.

The Economic Basis of the Divorce Problem,..

.HON. S. C. PARKS 160

.MABEL CUMMINGS NORTON 162

..MARY PUTNAM DENNY 164

.J. HENNIKER HEATON, M.P. 225

PROF. WILLIAM KITTLE 237

.HON. THOMAS SPEED MOSBY 259

.B. O. FLOWER 263

.HENRY FRANK 277

.REV. ROLAND D. SAWYER 284

The Bugaboo of Direct-Legislation: A Calm Review of Objections Urged by the Opposition,......

Mr. MacKaye's "Democracy and Socialism": Yes and No,..

LINTON SATTERTHWAIT 288

HON. GEORGE FRED. WILLIAMS and PROF. THOMAS ELMER WILL, A.M. 295

Daniel's Vision: Evidence that It was Not a Vision, but an Astronomical Observation,.

The Agitator: His Function in Social Evolution,..

The Senatorial Election in Colorado,..

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GEORGE MILLEN JARVIS 300

FRANCIS LAMONT PEIRCE 306

ELLIS MEREDITH 353

.ELINOR H. STOY 360

.AN EDITORIAL SKETCH 366

Chinatown and the Curse that Makes It a Plague-Spot in the Nation,.

Margaret Ridgely Partridge: A Purposeful Poet of the Higher Life,..

Will Public-Ownership Increase or Diminish Political Corruption?......CLARENCE ARTHUR ROYSE 378

Saint Gaudens: America's Greatest Sculptor (Illustrated),..

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe: One of America's Greatest Inventive Geniuses and Benefastors (Illustrated),..

GEORGE WHARTON JAMES 388

.F. EDWIN ELWELL 385

Idealism: A Sketch. Part I. Plato, and Kant's Delimitation of Knowledge, JUDGE L. H. JONES 397

The National Civic Federation and Its New Report on Public-Ownership,.

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PROFESSOR FRANK PAROSN, PH.D. 401

The Seven Alleged Delusions of the Founder of Christian Science, Examined in the Light of History

aud Present-Day Research,.

Some Unique Features of the Socialist Party,.
Municipal Art in New Orleans (Illustrated),.

.B. O. FLOWER 40g

.ELLIS O. JONES 47

GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

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Government by Federal Judges,...

New Zealand: A New Democracy,.

Kant's Doctrine that the Human Mind is Both the Creator and the Law-Giver of the Physical Universe,

Political Economy and Present-Day Civilization: A Criticism,.

.HON. WALTER CLARK, LL.D. 479

.A. A. BROWN 482

JUDGE L. H. JONES 487

WILLIAM JACKSON ARMSTRONG 491

The Federation of the World, . . .

WALTER J. BARTNETT 498

Through the Needle's Eye: A Parable,..

Secretary Taft and Senator Lodge as Upholders of Machine-Rule,..

.REV. ELIOT WHITE 505

.GEORGE H. SHIBLEY 515

Daniel's Vision: An Interpretation of the Meaning of the Fourth Great Beast, GEORGE MILLEN JARVIS 519

The Great Mother as an Educator; or, The Child in Nature's Workshop,.

311

Saint Gaudens' "Lincoln" as an Example of the Power of Genius Over the Human Imagination, 426

The Poet as an Interpreter of Life's Profoundest Truths,..

538