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CONTENTS.

No. 7.

creet, the world is thereby a great gainer;
that there is no reason to doubt the honesty
and accuracy of his reports; and that, in our
opinion, the reflections which have been
made upon Dr. Busch's character, apropos
of certain stories he tells, are quite without
ground. The minister talked with great
Resurgit, Bunce's Fairy freedom to and before his secretaries, and
ures on Preaching, Ballan- the chronicler seems rarely to have felt
tine's Midnight Marches bound to suppress his sayings. We think,
through Persia, Lady
Blunt's Bedouin Tribes of however, that former critics have taken
the Euphrates, Bay's

REVIEWS.

BUSCH'S BISMARCK. Arthur
Venner.

ROSCHER'S POLITICAL
ECONOMY. J. Laurence
Laughlin.

THE MEMOIR OF SYDNEY
DOBELL.

RECENT POETRY: Gwen,
Selections from Heine,
Guzman the Good, Con-
stance, Etc., Etc.

THE LITERATURE OF ROME.
W. G. Hale.

MINOR NOTICES: Foxcroft's

Paradoxical Philosophy,
Decisive Events in Histo-
ry, The Gamekeeper at
Home, Dr. Putnam's

Sermons.

Bench and Bar of Missou- some of Bismarck's observations altogether ri, Lefèvre's Philosophy, too seriously. Sometimes it is plain enough that he intends a joke, but while Dr. Busch faithfully reproduces the words, he never reflects the smile, and the reader has only his own sense of probability by which to judge PATIENCE WITH THE EDI- whether the minister was in earnest when he said, inter alia, that he would not sit down thirteen at table. He has often been

EDITORIALS.

TOR.

INDETERMINATE

TITLES.

MISCELLANEOUS.

GERMAN SLOWNESS. Cor- PERIODICAL
respondence.
Digest for
INTERNATIONAL COPY- April.

RIGHT. Benjamin Vaughan

Abbott.

WORLD BIOGRAPHIES: Hen-
ry James, Jr., S. G. W.
Benjamin.
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LITERATURE
NOTES AND QUERIES. 135

141.

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AND BOOK CLUBS.
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

BUSCH'S BISMARCK.*

accused of brutality and cynicism, not be

ROSCHER'S POLITICAL ECONOMY.*

SIN

INCE Biel, "the last of the schoolmen," approached political economy with the theological method, by starting the amusing inquiry as to how the economic damage caused by the sinner might be repaired, the question of method in investigation has been not only of vital, but of increasing, impor

tance. Between this mediæval method, however, and the mathematical method lately expounded by Mr. Jevons, there is a great distance. But to neither of these does the science owe anything. Her debt is mainly due to Adam Smith, Ricardo, Mal

Mill the "concrete deductive method," con

this work, therefore, lies in its method, and existing phenomena. The raison d'étre of around this the interest in it most naturally

centers.

thus, and Mill, whose method, called by Mr. sisted in forming a priori conclusions from known laws of human nature, and testing these by experience. It is hardly necessary to say, moreover, that the economic laws which go to make up the present cause what he said was untrue, but because status of the science have been the results in his utterances we see the bare, harsh out-of this method. To these methods Roscher lines of the truth, quite devoid of any haze and the German Historical School throw thrown about them by politeness, or any down the gauntlet. They scorn previous glamor of sentiment. In this very thing we a priori conclusions, and propose to derive see the real Bismarck as no amount of de-all economic laws from and through actual scription would show him to us. It is beISMARCK'S political importance has cause he can see things with this "brutal" been so great that his table-talk could clearness (we fear we must now say, not not fail to be of great historical importance; can, but could), and can act upon his knowlin fact, there is not a page in these handsome edge with courage, quick decision, and pervolumes which is not deeply interesting to sistency, that he has been so enormously every student of modern history. But we successful. Nor do we think his opinions can fairly claim for the book a far larger on food, and beer-drinking, and titles, and public than would be attracted by a medley Sunday-keeping, at all unworthy of the place of opinions on historical matters, whoever Dr. Busch gives them. Bismarck's best their author might be, for we here have be- days are over; he is now broken in health, fore us, as Carlyle would say, the whole fig-if not in spirit, and this is not to be wonure of a MAN. In this respect, we know of dered at; with most men the result of so no book which can be considered equal to it many years of the hardest work, combined except Boswell, who certainly gives us more with terrible responsibility and constant anof Johnson than Dr. Busch does of the Ger- noyance, would have been not a lessening of man statesman. But what is lost in quan- their powers, but their total giving way. tity is more than made up for in quality. But during the French war, he was in his Johnson had an original mind, and thought prime, and no mind, probably, ever came deeply, and, in the main, soundly. He was, nearer the ideal of health and soundness however, merely a looker-on, never, on any than his did then. Taking him as he was great scale, an actor in the world; he could in his best years, he seems to us a great not, explicitly or implicitly, say of any great man, judged by the greatest standards of action "quorum pars fui." Besides this, the events about which and the men about whom Johnson uttered his opinions with such vigor and frankness, have, for the most part, long since lost their interest for us, while the persons who had to do with the events here referred to are nearly all still living. Time and tide work against Johnson, but

here time and tide are with us.

the past. But when we compare him with
the ablest of his contemporaries, with the
vain and lying Thiers, the theatrical Bea-
consfield, the honest, but prejudiced and
tactless Gladstone, then his greatness ap-
pears gigantic.

As regards style, these volumes are very pleasant reading, for the translator's Eng lish, though sometimes grammatically incorSo much has been printed about Dr. rect, runs easily and rapidly. This is a book Busch's book, and especially about the cir- to be bought and re-read as well as read, cumstances under which it was written, that wherefore we the more regret that such a we may presume the reader to be informed work, whose every page speaks of weighty upon these points. We have to say only events and people, should be unprovided that if our diarist has sometimes been indis- with an index. We would remark also that the representation on the cover of the Prus*Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War. Authorized translation from the German of Dr. Moritz Busch. New sian family standard conveys of it a very false idea.

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To the book is prefixed an essay on the historical method, taken from Wolowski's French translation of Roscher, discursive and philosophical, it is true, but giving a few interesting facts in Roscher's personal history. A man of marvelous industry, it was he who exhumed the "Money "" of Nicole Oresme (1382); and, although it is said that somewhat of a reaction is going on in Germany against Roscher's authority, and that he is, according to the amenities of German literature, posted as an "idiot," yet it is certain that no living writer on political economy occupies a position of such acknowledged authority.

In an introduction Roscher argues for his method, but chiefly against the idealistic school, and, of course, makes out a strong case against the separation of pure from applied political economy. But neither Wolowski nor Roscher seems to have given any valid reasons for supplanting the "concrete deductive method" by the historical; and the present book is itself undoubtedly an argument against it. Careful study fails to reveal the fact that, by the historical method, any additions have been made to the science, or that the great results of the English economists have been modified. What reason is there for adopting the new method, when it has proved the efficacy of the old by confirming all its results, and has itself discovered nothing new? As yet, we must conclude that the historical method,

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