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Discusses the anonymous mailing campaign of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Congressional committee's documentation of separate COINTELPRO actions by the FBI against U.S. protest organizations; Disclosures emerging from cases brought against the FBI by groups such as the Socialist Workers Party.

The article presents information on the British General elections. A section of the press through which the intentions of the Government are usually foreshadowed, tells that there is going to be a general election early in November, 1912. Then November 30, 1912 was announced as having been practically fixed for the date. It has been postponed to December 7, 1918. Afterwards, December 11, 1918 was mentioned on the best authority. Now it is known finally that the pollings would be held on December 14, 1918.

This article presents information on various socio-political issues in the U.S. "Don't Give Up the Ship," this words are printed on the titlepage of a pamphlet which the promoters of the ship-subsidy bill are now circulating in the interest of that measure. The pamphlet in question is titled "United States Merchant Marine on the Oceans," and is published in Cleveland, Ohio. It embraces letters from a large number of persons in favor of the Hanna-Payne bill, all of them in favor of the policy of paying money out of the public Treasury to carry on a private industry. One of the greatest charms connected with the recently published letters of novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was that of finding them actually existing. Men like him had not left off letter-writing then. The discovery was of itself a delight in this age of postal-cards and telegraph-blanks.

The article presents information about new publications related to various topics as history of letters and writing, educational matters and geological survey. The German Imperial Postal Museum in Berlin has recently come into possession of three documents of interest for the history of letters and of writing. They are all derived from the archeological storehouse of Upper Egypt. Another information is about the general report of the Geological Survey of India for the fifteen months ending April 1, 1898. It contains notes of the work of the museum and laboratory and the palaeontological work. The article also mentions a report published in the London Times about the industrial revolution taking place in Russia and a publication of statistics on the condition of educational matters by the Cultus Ministry of Bulgaria.

The discussion in England over the position of the imprisoned Irish-American suspects continues and is certainly sufficiently confused to bewilder any ordinary reader. Two or three of the principal journals admit that the United States are within their rights in insisting that their citizens shall not be imprisoned for an indefinite period without trial. The text-books and diplomatic correspondence teem with admissions that a foreigner owes obedience to the laws of the country in which he has taken up his abode and must submit to whatever punishment they prescribe for their violation.

Reprints the correspondence between Thomas Emerson, Lines Professor of Law Emeritus of Yale University and 'New York Times' columnist Anthony Lewis on Section 1437 or the U.S. Federal Criminal Code Reform Act of 1978. Scope and application of the section; Implications for the judicial system; Criticisms on the section from the American Civil Liberties Union.

The following correspondence between the authorities of the State of Sonora and the Mexican Federal Government was published soon after the disturbances in Sonora, Mexico began. "Last night I received an answer to my conference of the 31st ultimo. Most respectfully I beg to state that in my - former message I pointed out that I had always opposed crediting the current news of the press which I referred to before, because of the absolute lack of truth contained in such news in regard to this matter. If I have addressed myself to you in this respect, it is not because the Government under my charge is willing to commit itself as the author of the reigning alarm; I have addressed myself to you because I believe that it is my duty respectfully to let you know the situation and conditions which actually exist at present as well as to seek the tranquility of the people of Sonora and the normal continuation of all affairs in this State, thus avoiding those disturbances that might occur due to circumstances, real or supposed.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics of interest. Information on the Library of Congress having just obtained a manuscript volume of some interest; Information on obtaining materials which could be of special significance to readers concerned with Renaissance Literature; Presentation of some arguments in contradiction of the position taken at the close of an editorial in the journal.

The article focuses on the author Prosper Mérimée. The author focuses on the details which keeps Mérimée and his correspondent apart. The correspondent of Mérimée was an Englishwoman. As a girl, she once wrote to Mérimée to ask him for an autograph; her letter pleased him, and a correspondence began between them. The death of her father left her poor, and she was obliged to enter the household of a Lady II, and to follow her as a companion to Paris, to Italy, in all her journeys. This is the reason why Mérimée could not visit her.

One of the secrets of good letter-writing is the transference of the speaking voice to written words. It is a art disguised by an air of artlessness. In the last century letter-writing flowered. Men and women of leisure took time out to write long letters. This habit became so securely fixed for those who could write at all, and so popular, that fashionable novelists, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney told their stories in the form of letters written by their heroines. These fictional letters provided an illusion of being true beyond, the resources of fiction. Artlessness was implied. Today the substitutes for this fictional device are to be found at their most naive levels in true confessions magazines, and lower still, in confidential reporting, or in autobiographies of actresses retold by publicity men.

The article focuses on the book "The George Eliot Letters," edited by Gordon S. Haight. The great merit of this three-volume edition--there are three more volumes to come--is that it charts an intellectual and spiritual journey along one of the high roads of nineteenth-century English history--the rise of the urban middle classes and the drift to the towns. It is magnificently edited. Writer George Eliot was not a born letter-writer. She reveals herself with reluctance and her external world with difficulty.

The article presents a correspondence on women at the university of London. The University of London is notoriously not a teaching body, but an examining board, with a Government charter granting the right to confer degrees. Degrees are conferred in arts, science, medicine, surgery, law and music and the courses and examinations required are among the most severe of any in the world. To this institution women have been trooping by the thousand ever since 1878. The University was at that date empowered to institute special examinations for women and the subjects chosen were those which the board presumed would be preferred by the women themselves.

Presents letters to the editor on various issues of national importance in the United States. Information that in the South of the country it is not even safe to be a Republican; Information that the mood of Connecticut's electorate has sent crowds in excess of all the expectations of the citizens; Information that U.S. President Herbert Hoover holds the President's office at a time that is far more critical and dangerous than any previous period of the American history.

The article presents information on the book "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence," edited by Christopher Saint John. Despite the profusion of sweethearts, darlings dearests, and other such excursions into amorous terminology and despite the emphasis laid by the publisher's press agents upon its rich flavor of love, this is an impersonal book. The motions of love, at least on the part of its male contributor; are duly gone through, and on the part of his visioned Dulcinea there is an occasional shrewd imitation of reciprocation, but as for any real love story told through the medium of letters the impression gained is of a game of "post office" rather than anything resembling the grand passion.

The literary fashion of the moment is the publication of the correspondence of distinguished men. "The Revue des Deux Mondes" has given extracts from the voluminous correspondence of Madame Sand, and a quarrel has begun concerning the correspondence of "Lui et Elle," of Madame Sand and Alfred de Musset. Some maintain that this correspondence still exists, some that destroyed. The book of Madame Jaubert is a series of conversations, and she seems to have felt obliged to give them at length, with all their unnecessary and uninteresting details.

This article presents a brief information on the book "The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh," edited by V.W. Van Gogh and translated by J. Van Gogh-Burner. Van Gogh is the ideal letter writer, and his books, is almost as important as his collected paintings would be and much more easily domesticated. They are not only intimate, revealing, beautifully written, but they have a special sort of sweet profundity about them, that is unmatched by anyone else. Yet there is nothing theatrical about them. They are as quiet as a conversation by the fireside in a Dutch parsonage.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles in the journal referencing previous issues. Clarification of some statements regarding loans in an article in the journal; Observation that a remark made in an article in the journal fails to appreciate the true functions of a school of political thinkers; Illustration of additional matters as a contribution to an article concerning scholars in the Prussian army.

Many supporters of U.S. Senator La Follette in the recent campaign were disquieted because his proposals were attacked so largely and successfully not by argument but by misrepresentation. They have questioned how democracy was to function in the future if the electorate could be hoodwinked so easily and effectively. Evidently this uneasiness is not confined to La Follette's supporters. Speaking before the League of Women Voters in Chicago lately, literary personality David Lawrence, whose Washington correspondence goes into the most conservative newspapers, said that never before in his recollection had there been such misrepresentation "not only of the spirit but the letter of the Constitution by campaign speakers."

The article discusses the book "The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years," edited by Ernest de Selincourt. Selincourt's chronology seems thoroughly sensible; only in a few places has he been obliged to omit words that could not be read; the notes are informative but not oppressive. And the Oxford Press has made volumes, which are in format characteristically useful and beautiful. Moreover, for the last twenty years of his life Wordsworth was a famous man, with a large following and late in life as well as early he formulated careful opinions on all sorts of subjects-literary, political, domestic, educational and expressed them at length in his correspondence.

The article focuses on the book "The Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats, 1820-1824." The day English poet John Keats sailed for Italy, where he died, his wife Fanny Brawne, eager to comply with his request, began her correspondence with his younger sister Fanny Keats. But because Keats had requested Fanny to keep their love secret, a century passed before justice was done and these letters published. They had traveled meantime among Fanny Keats's dearest possessions. They rest now at last in the Keats Memorial House, Hampstead.

This article presents the views of columnist on solitude. Solitude, he avers, is a state of mind. It does not mean the absence of human beings or wide, free spaces in which to wander at will. There is possibly more real solitude in a great crowd of persons than anywhere else in the world and more companionship in coyotes and mountains than the columnist's correspondent gives them credit for. However, the columnist admits that he is fairly hit, he has been found guilty of saying one thing at one time and something entirely different at another time.

This article focuses on the book "Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper." publication of the letters of eminent persons is best justified, perhaps, when the letters reveal inaccessible information of biographical value, or when they are in themselves of considerable literary interest either through their substance or their style. By such a criterion the "Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper" would at first seem to be of no marked merit, though, to be sure, no definitive life of Cooper has yet been written, and the present volumes do throw additional light upon his character and personality.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics referencing previous issues of the journal. Appeal that the influence of the magazine be used for just causes; Appeal to such men and women in the United States who may desire to aid the cause of the German literature; Opinion that the student bodies are the most constructive liberal group of people in the republic.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics published in previous issues of the journal. Information that only one-sixth of the virgin forests are being cut at a rate that will destroy them entirely before twenty-five years; Information that an out-of-the-way in Pittsburg was crowded by 1,600 enthusiastic men and women at a disarmament and peace meeting; Protest of the misinterpretation of what the article in a previous issue of the journal really demonstrated.

The article presents a letter to the governor of Arkansas. It focuses on the death sentence given to six men. In the case of six of those condemned men he has sanctioned the sentence of death and he has appointed the day of their execution. An article of Magna Charta, the historical foundation of rights and liberties, declares "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or banished or in any way destroyed except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

The article focuses on the book "Supplement to the Letters of Horace Walpole," edited by Paget Toynbee. In the two admirable volumes which Toynbee now publishes as a supplement to his wife's sixteen volumes of the Correspondence of writer Horace Walpole, one finds 259 letters. In the letters themselves one is carried back to the century in which he made the Grand Tour and sent one another such leisurely presents. Elaborate and formal as the style of Walpole's letters usually is, his manner here varies greatly according to the persons whom he was addressing.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics related to previous issues of the journal. Information that the Boston Orchestra is Gallicized; Opinion of a reader that he should not be classed by the people in his community as lacking in patriotism; Observation of the workings of the current educational system; Opinion that an article in the journal is misleading to the general public.

The article presents information on a correspondence related to bankruptcy in Europe. In the September, 1918, "Contemporary Review," there appeared, under the heading of "President Wilson's Opportunity," a remarkable article signed by author Brougham Villiers. Starting from the certainty that, when the war comes to an end, the nations of Continental Europe will be face to face with bankruptcy, Villiers argues that their only means of avoiding that fate will be by obtaining assistance from outside their own borders. Money will be needed to pay the interest on the debts until they have had time to reconstruct their financial systems and credit to buy raw materials to set their industries going.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics published in previous issues of the journal. Expression of resentment by a reader of being charged with dishonesty and cowardice with regard to an article published in the journal; Suggestion that a change be made regarding the honoring of heroes; Introduction of Harry Kirke Wolfe, a teacher of psychology, who died of angina pectoris in July, 1918; Presentation of recollections of statements which seemed to be a useful corollary to an article published in the journal.

The article throws light on the book "The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman," by Wilfrid Ward. It gives only a single chapter to events of his life down to and including his conversion and devotes the remainder of two bulky volumes to his experiences in the Roman Church. Newman was seldom at his best as a letter-writer and a good deal of the correspondence now printed is, in judgment, neither necessary to an understanding of Newman's character nor entertaining in itself. Much also of his life after 1845 was passed amid petty, thwarting circumstances; and the tale of these ecclesiastical intrigues will seem to the taste of most readers somewhat too finely-spun.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics. Complaint from a reader that an interview he had with a reporter of a journal was not correctly interpreted in the journal; Opinion that the apology of a French correspondent for the Jesuits in an issue of the journal confuses matter; Opinion that a little pamphlet should be added in a bibliography of the college teacher in a journal.

The second installment of M. Doudan's letters proves as substantial as the first. Doudan was a copious as well as excellent letter-writer, and the success of the enterprise undertaken by M. d'Haussonville has been such as to make his correspondents yield up the remainder of their treasures. The first volumes contained perhaps the best things; but the difference is not very great, and people took a fancy to M. Doudan, will find these very well worth reading. The effect of them is not to present with a new or in any degree modified portrait of the author, but to pass the pencil over the old outline and make it a trifle more definite. Here, as in the former publication, his delicacy, discrimination, discretion are the striking and charming features. A quiet scholar who was at the same time in a very sufficient degree a man of the world, and whose life was passed in the best society, who preferred observation to action, and with whom observation always implied conversation-conversation of the most expansive and reciprocal kind such is the figure that detaches itself from these pages.

The two volumes of the correspondence of M. Doudan have met with such an extraordinary success, even at a time when all minds are absorbed in politics, that Madame du Parquet, their editor, has published a new volume of the letters, and promises to publish soon a fourth. This correspondence is not read, however, chiefly for its great literary merit; people try to study in it the little society of the Broglies. M. Doudan belonged, as it wore, by adoption to this extraordinary family, the head of which has now again for the second time taken in his hands the destinies of France. The present Due de Broglie made the revolution of the May 24, 1877 and hurled M. Thiers from power.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics of interest. Information on the Collegiate Gymnasiums being established to counteract physical infirmities engendered by the sedentary lives of students. Information on the Macmillan & Co. having just published a book of delightful fairy tales.

The article focuses on the book "James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence," edited by Edward Everett Hale. The book hardly keeps the promise of its title-page in some particulars and does more than that in others. The "Diary and Correspondence" are much less in quantity than the editing. Clarke was not a diarist in the manner which gives diaries their principal if sometimes questionable value to the reading world. He does not pour out his soul, nor dues he indulge in lively and satirical characterizations of his acquaintances and friends.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics addressed in previous issues. Expression of surprise that the journal should accept without any corroborative authority statements such as were published in the "Record"; Opinion that the Los Angeles "Record," is the only newspaper which gives an accurate report of the trials of the so-called reds; Opinion that the use of figures to describe the Spanish-American War pensions are not appropriate.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics published in previous issues of the journal. Presentation of some facts which clarified further the professional and official conduct of a reader discussed in an article in the journal; Clarification that any censorship controversy and any view regarding an illegal alleged censorship at the White House had nothing to do with the dismissal of the chief of the Washington Bureau of the "Christian Science Monitor"; Opinion that an excellent analysis has been given of the disarmament situation in an article in the journal.

This article focuses on two books, "After Thirty Years," by Viscount Gladstone and "Gladstone and Palmerston (1851-1865). Correspondence," edited by Philip Guedalla. It seems to have been decided that the most famous of English liberal statesmen cannot be made interesting. Gladstone was important, copious, and powerful; but he never wrote and seldom said anything that men have remembered, and our exacting age finds him entirely lacking in the salt or spice of personality. Morley's "Life," although a fine monument, is not complete, and Lord Gladstone has done a job that needed doing.

The article presents unpublished letters of American writer and political theoretician Thomas Paine. In a letter addressed to In a letter addressed to the English police Magistrate Thomas Walker dated March 12, 1789, the political part of the letter relates, as will be seen to the exciting constitutional question which arose in the autumn of 1788, as to the condition of the three estates of the realm under the incompetency of George III, King of Great Britain who had become insane.

Before the time of newspapers it was difficult for princes and free towns to have any accurate information on the affairs of the world. Many princes of inferior rank, even when they were not sovereign princes, found it worth their while to have regular and paid correspondents in the places where the general affairs of Europe found their settlement. M. de Bouteiller and M. Eugene Hepp have just published the political correspondence addressed to the magistrates of Strasbourg, France by their agents between 1594 and 1683, and they have thus rendered some service to history. M. de Bouteiller was once an officer of artillery, who became a Deputy from Metz under the Empire, and was the Mayor of Metz at the time when the town was besieged and taken. He left it after the war, and now lives in Paris. M. Hepp was born in Strasbourg, and was, before the war, the Secretary of the Committee which presides in Strasbourg over the affairs that concern the so-called Confession of Strasbourg. He retired to Paris after the war.

The article focuses on Madame d'épinay. M. Lucien Perey and Gaston Maugras, who published last year the correspondence of the Neapolitan Abbé,; Galiani, became very much interested in Madame d'épinay, who was the faithful friend and correspondent of Galiani. Henri Rousseau was very ungrateful to Madame d'Epinay. He read the manuscript of his 'Confessions' in the winter of 1770-1771 in various houses in Paris. A manuscript, bought and published in 1818, thirteen years after the death of Grimm

The testimony given before the House Foreign Affairs Committee was important in more ways than one. A letter was produced which is very valuable as showing the impression made by the U.S. Statesman James Gillepsie Blaine. The interpretation of the despatch of November 22, 2004 was not unnatural. Down to this time there is no indication in the correspondence of any desire on the part of Blaine to interfere with the general diplomatic operations. His instructions were explicit on the point that the United States "cannot refuse to recognize the rights which the Chilian Government has acquired by the successes of the war," and that "a cessation of territory might be "the necessary price to be paid for peace."

The article focuses on the autobiography of and correspondences of scholar Mary Delany in the 18th century. Delany wrote in 1742 that if all the world were prudent and regular, it would not be half so diverting as it is now. She spent much of her life in Ireland. Delany's career included nearly a century of English history, from 1700 onward; and she passed through the social and public life of a frivolous period, being herself not only without stain, but a perpetual example of high aims, varied cultivation, and refined virtue. She had tastes and knowledge far beyond those of the ordinary Englishwomen of her time; she studied eagerly the habits of animals and plants.

After some years, when time has done its work, nothing is more interesting than to read the correspondence of some great mind. Nothing can give more keenly, more painfully, the sensation of the vanity and folly of most human efforts. This article presents information on the second volume of the correspondence of French writer Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, which has just appeared, with the same sort of interest. The way in which this correspondence comes to light shows well the avidity and impatience of this time. The literary executors have not waited till, by their efforts and by the generosity of the correspondents of Sainte-Beuve, they should find themselves in possession of their whole object; no, they have published one volume as soon as they had matter enough for one volume. They now publish a second volume, because they can feed the public with a volume more; and they announce that during the printing, they have received new documents, which will furnish the materials for a supplementary volume. The letters of the second volume extend from 1805 to 1869.

The correspondence of Mme. de Rémusat has reached its fourth volume. Some families destroy all their letters; it is very fortunate that the Rémusats are not of the number. The letters of Mme. de Rémusat and his mother make a sort of perpetual dialogue; and in this dialogue one must give the first place to the mother: her letters are decidedly the best. He is a little too paradoxical, he runs too much after wit; she is perfectly natural, and she has the precious faculty of saying good, sensible things with a degree of charm, with elegance, a simplicity, which gives them their full value.

Presents several letters to the editor. Describes a case of telepathy; describes about a letter of Judge Tourgee and census data; describes about the lexicographical dictionaries.

Presents letters to the editor relating to topics published in previous issues of the journal. Information that if the scarcity of certain things desired doesn't actually exist, the lack of means to purchase can exist and prevent the want from being satisfied; Information that a journal in talking of the attack on the heights of Fredericksburg has wrongly quoted the figures of the number of rebels engaged in the conflict; Opinion that if every one should voice his dissatisfaction with the new postal note, it would be speedily discontinued or amended.

The article presents information about the book "Franc Liszt's Briefe an die Fürstin Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein," vol. 1, and vol. 2. Franz Liszt died on July 31, 1886. His last letter to the Princess Wittgenstein is dated July 6 of the same year. The first he addressed to her bears the date of February, 1847. Thus his correspondence with the Princess covers nearly forty years and the sum total of it makes 1,566 printed pages, without her answers. If the letters of the Princess are ever printed, they will probably fill more volumes than Listz's, for she was a most voluminous writer.

Presents letters to the editor on political matters concerning the United States. Regret that the long-standing rivalry between the great publishing houses of F.A. Brockhans and Bibliographisches Institute, has at last led to the adoption of methods which is annoying and questionable; Information that the observations of the Charleston earthquake was recorded by the magnetic instruments at Toronto Observatory was distinctly magnetic and not due to mechanical jarring; Approval of the statement of the U.S. President regarding the misuse of aurochs.

The article discusses that several of the learned historians and philosophic observers of society who are employed to write the ablest foreign letters in American journals receive in payment of their services a pittance so miserable that they are compelled to pursue their researches in this city. People have endeavored to discredit the proverb, but there is too much reason to fear that history does repeat itself. There are what appear to be plain indications that men of letters are going back to the position which the fraternity held in the days of poet Christopher Smart.