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PUBLIC OPINION

A

COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY

OF

THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

ON ALL IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS,

VOLUME II.

OCTOBER, 1886-APRIL, 1887.

THE PUBLIC OPINION COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., AND NEW YORK, N. Y.

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THE UNIVERSITY
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

Abbott's, Dr. Lyman, Henry Ward Beecher, his Life

and Characteristics, A new edition of, 508

Abolishing poverty, 85

Abolition of slavery in Cuba, II

About, Edmund, Anecdote of, 159

Academies, Home-spun, 480

Academy of Design, new professor of sculpture at the 159

Accidents on railroads and their prevention, 273

Prevention of, 16

to sleep-walkers, 16

"Acharnians" a success, The Greek play of, 138

Acoustics, A new theory of, 174

Actor authors, 119

Actors as lecturers and writers, 247
Comparisons of great, 582

deserting London, 119

The profits of some distinguished, 559

Administration, A successful, 280

Not the President's, 399

Advice, good and otherwise, 573
Advice to preachers, Dr. Thorold's, 15

Africa, The chief remedies used in West, 220
African diamond fields, The South, 334
gold fever, The South, 265

After the fourth of March, 1889, 279

#) Agassiz's humility, 338

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Age and experience, Value of, 133

Ages of living sovereigns, 524
Ahead of us- -what? 113

Alabama boom grows, The, 290
Public schools of, 116

Alaska, 93

Moravian missionaries to, 154

school fund, The, 456

the Guion steamer, to carry the royal mail, 158

The Presbytery of, 363

Albert, Prince, Equestrian statue of, 437

Alcohol and the death-rate in France, 457

in its harmless forms, 444

Alcoholic beverages, To regulate and relieve the use

Alcoholism, Some inherited phenomena of, 578
Aldrich, T. B., Anecdote of, 461

Alexander's Prince, savings, 178

Allison and the presidency, 108

Allison's availability, 492

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, The authorship of, 367

Alps, An observatory in the Tyrolese, 241

The glaciers of the, 241

Alquiers, Baroness, legacy to Paris, 220

Alsatians still Frenchmen, 440

Aluminum sixty years ago and to-day, 74

Amateur photography in India, 74

Amber mining in Prussia, 266

Ambler, Dr. James M., A bronze tablet in memory

America and the Chinese, 285

steerage passengers for, 265

American Art, a new magazine, 139 in London, 38

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Arthur and Conkling, 122

One of the last acts of ex-President, 159 Arthur's death, Ex-President, 121

Artists' Aid Society, The, 581

Fund Society, The annual sale of the, 294

Ary Ecilaw, The novels by, 223
Asphalt, The sources of, 453
Assumption and pretension, 382
Assyrian, Students in, 173
Asteroids, Eleven new, 430

Astor titles, A reported flaw in the, 336

Astor, W. W., Prospective wealth of, 75

Astronomy, Millions expended upon, 134

Athenian Girl, A Young, Concerning the statue, 294
Athens, Two interesting statues discovered at, 581

Andrews, Seven pictures in the White House, by, Atlanta on the eve of a boom, 355
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