Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — The Review for August. [ARTICLE]

The Review for August.

The North American /Review for August contains an article by Justice James V. Campbell on “The Encroachments of Capital” which will command the serious of attention of all readers. Richard A. Proctor treats of “The Origin of Comets’\ and succeeds in presenting that difficult subject in a light so clear that persons who have’ little or no acquaintance with astronomy can follow his argument. “Are we’a Nation of Rascals?” is the startling title of an article by John F. Hume, who shows that states, counties and municipalities in the United States have already formally repudiated, or defaulted in the payment of interest, on an amount of bonds and other obligations equal to the sum of the national debt. J udge Edward C. Loring finds a • ‘Drift toward Centralization’ ’ in the recent judgement of the United States Supreme Court on the power of the Federal Government to issue paper money, and in the opinion of the minority of the same court rendered in the suit for the Arlington property. Julian Hawthorne writes of “The Amerian Element in Fiction,” and there is a symposium on “Prohibition and Persuasion," by Neal Dow and Dr. Dio Lewis.