Abstract

The Week

The article provides information on various socio-political developments around the world. J.C. Rodrigues has published, through Messrs. Scribner, a monograph of 250 pages on the Panama Canal, which supplies a want very keenly felt in this country, especially among the scientific and mercantile classes and those who take an interest in high politics. The temperance people in Great Britain are as little pleased with the attitude of the two great parties toward their cause as their brethren in this country. The National Temperance Federation, which comprises fifteen of the principal temperance organizations of the United Kingdom, held its autumnal meeting in Manchester a few weeks ago, and adopted a long manifesto with reference to the approaching election. The letter of Charles E. Coon, tendering his resignation as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is a thoroughly impertinent missive and its publication is obviously intended for political effect.