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  THE ARENA.



  EDITED BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL. D.



  VOL. XVIII



  JULY TO DECEMBER, 1897



  PUBLISHED BY
  THE ARENA COMPANY
  BOSTON, MASS.
  1897


  COPYRIGHTED, 1897
  BY
  THE ARENA COMPANY.


  SKINNER, BARTLETT & CO., 7 Federal Court, Boston.




CONTENTS.

                                                                    PAGE

  The Citadel of the Money Power:
     I. Wall Street, Past, Present, and Future           HENRY CLEWS   1
    II. The True Inwardness of Wall Street        JOHN CLARK RIDPATH   9
  The Reform Club's Feast of Unreason          Hon. CHARLES A. TOWNE  24
  Does Credit Act on Prices?                             A. J. UTLEY  37
  Points in the American and French Constitutions Compared,
                                                          NIELS GROeN  49
  Honest Money; or, A True Standard of Value: A Symposium.
      I. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN                                       57
     II. M. W. HOWARD                                                 58
    III. WHARTON BARKER                                               59
     IV. ARTHUR I. FONDA                                              60
      V. Gen. A. J. WARNER                                            62
  The New Civil Code of Japan         TOKICHI MASAO, M. L., D. C. L.  64
  John Ruskin: A Type of Twentieth-Century Manhood