A series of lectures delivered by Dr. Lyman Abbott h. '90, before the Lowell Institute of Boston, last winter, has been collected into book form under the title "The Rights of Man." These essays trace the growth of the Hebraic democracy from its earliest stages to the present day; describing the downfall of the Roman policy of imperialism and the rise of the rights of the people, religious, educational, political and industrial. The author believes that the United States represent the highest modern development of democracy; accordingly the problems, the possibilities and the dangers which present themselves to the members of a democracy are treated by him in the specific forms which they assume for American citizens. Among the topics which are specially discussed are the Indian question, the negro question, woman suffrage, machine politics and the recent territorial extension of power. The treatment of all these subjects is rendered more interesting, convincing and helpful by Dr. Abbott's characteristic optimism and breadth of view and by the way in which he sees the divine principle in every day things.

"The Right of Man," by Lyman Abbott, D.D. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., crown 8 vo., $1.50 net.