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THE HE August and September numbers of the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW will have several articles of surpassing interest; among them:

An essay on "BISMARCK: MAN AND MINISTER." By Minister JOHN A. KASSON.

"THE END OF THE CONFEDERACY." By Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.

"WHY AM I A CATHOLIC?"

Woodstock College.

'WHY AM I A METHODIST?

By Father BRANDI, S.J., Principal

By Rev. Dr. CROOKS.

"FEMALE SUFFRAGE." By "QUIDA." The most radical and uncom promising article against female suffrage ever published.

ELIZUR WRIGHT's last essay on "LIFE INSURANCE," written just before his death.

"THE PROGRESS OF ARKANSAS." By Governor HUGHES.

"RADICALISM IN FRANCE." By HENRI ROCHEFORT.

"PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT!" By ex-Senator HILL, of Colorado. "LETTERS TO PROMINENT PERSONS." By ARTHUR RICHMOND.

And the first of a brief series of articles, entitled:

"ECONOMIC RESEARCHES IN PENNSYLVANIA." By the Special Com missioner of the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Mr. HENRY GEORGE author of "Progress and Poverty," "Social Problems," "Protection, or Free Trade?"

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REVIEW.

EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE.

VOL. CXLIII.

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1886.

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1886.

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THE institution of marriage, whether with one or more wives, is at the base of human society. Upon it rests social stability and order and domestic felicity and virtue. Under its wing are the "little ones" gathered, upon whom depends so much of present comfort for parents and future safety for State and people. Perhaps the greatest anomaly connected with human advancement is the fact that Christian nations have formed their institutions upon models of the Old Testament, with its patriarchs and tribal system, and its Jewish kings and their Oriental households, and yet have so eliminated the primal feature of ancient Judean life as to have ignored Abraham and Solomon in their practice of plurality of wives. Only the Mormon, that thrifty branch of a dead stump, preserves this practice and peculiarity. Like the Chinese artist, he faithfully copies the ugly flaw of the vase, along with its elegant shape and proportion.

Whether, or when, our "twin relic," which now flutters as if wounded in a vital part, shall be abolished from the domain of America, is a problem almost as insoluble as that which now, owing to the presence of the Ottoman in Europe, vexes the nations over the conditions of Turkish civilization.

Why is it that polygamy, as practiced in the Orient, and especially in Turkey, and which, as most argue, saps the foundation VOL. CXLIII.-NO. 356.

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