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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      B. O. FLOWER  70
  The Single Tax in Operation                      Hon. HUGH H. LUSK  79
  Natural Selection, Social Selection, and Heredity,
                                               Prof. JOHN R. COMMONS  90
  Psychic or Supermundane Forces                 CORA L. V. RICHMOND  98
  The American Institute of Civics       HENRY RANDALL WAITE, Ph. D. 108
  An Industrial Fable                              HAMILTON S. WICKS 116
  Plaza of the Poets:
    Reply to "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," BARTON LOMAX PITTMAN 122
    John Brown                                         COATES KINNEY 125
    Demos                                      W. H. VENABLE, LL. D. 126
  The Editor's Evening: Leaf from My Samoan Notebook (A. D.
    2297); _Vita Longa_; Kaboto (a Sonnet)                           128
  A Stroke for the People: A Farmer's Letter to            THE ARENA 134
  Evolution: What It Is and What It Is Not    Dr. DAVID STARR JORDAN 145
  Has Wealth a Limitation?                          ROBERT N. REEVES 160
  The Battle of the Money Metals:
     I. Bimetallism Simplified                      GEORGE H. LEPPER 168
    II. Bimetallism Extinguished                  JOHN CLARK RIDPATH 180
  The Segregation and Permanent Isolation of Criminals,
                                                     NORMAN ROBINSON 192
  How to Increase National Wealth by the Employment of Paralyzed
    Industry                                            B. O. FLOWER 200
  Open Letter to Eastern Capitalists              CHARLES C. MILLARD 211
  The Telegraph Monopoly: Part XIII.             Prof. FRANK PARSONS 218
  The Provisional Government of the Cubans           THOMAS W. STEEP 226
  A Noted American Preacher                         DUNCAN MACDERMID 232
  The Civic Outlook                      HENRY RANDALL WAITE, Ph. D. 245
  "The Tempest" the Sequel to "Hamlet"            EMILY DICKEY BEERY 254
  The Creative Man                                    STINSON JARVIS 262
  Plaza of the Poets:
    The New Woman                              MILES MENANDER DAWSON 275
    Under the Stars                                    COATES KINNEY 275
    The Cry of the Valley                   CHARLES MELVIN WILKINSON 276
    A Radical                                       ROBERT F. GIBSON 277
  The Editor's Evening: Our Totem; _Vive La France! Le Siecle_
    (a Sonnet)                                                       278
  The Concentration of Wealth: Its Causes and Results: Part I,
                                                 HERMAN E. TAUBENECK 289
  The Future of the Democratic Party: A Reply         DAVID OVERMYER 302
  The Multiple Standard for Money                    ELTWEED POMEROY 318
  Anticipating the