The Religion of Democracy. By Charles Ferguson. (Funk and Wagnalls
Company. $1.)—We are promised a great sensation irom reading this book, and, in a sense, are not disappointed. Mr. Ferguson startles us, at least for a time; but we get used to him. A shriek wakes one, but a succession of shrieks,—to say the least, the result is not a multiplication of the result of the Erst. Mr. ferguson's manner is after this sort :—" The stupefying spell of custom has been broken. The conspiracy of hebetude has been betrayed. Ideas, colossal, magnificent, are in the saddle, and are sailing the sea in ships. There is thunder in the air and ozone. Oh ! democracy of dead lift and suction, democracy of pull anei haul, of covetousness, cautiousness and cunning, they give you up at last. You are not worth while. And your sap. lees platitudes, your sentimental pieties and patriotisms, they spew them out! " But we do not find ourselves much forwarder. Yet this, taco, may possibly have its use.
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