Glimpses of the Future. By David Goodman Croby. (G. P.
Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Croby has, so to speak, set up in business as a prophet. But his prophesying is of the right kind. By this we mean, not that in our judgment his predictions are accurate, but that he inquires into principles, and makes his forecasts as the thought of those principles. He looks, for instance, at the tendencies at work in the political world, and judging them in the light of acknowledged moral laws, makes a forecast of the " political future" (it will be understood that he is speaking, in the first place, of the United States). We gather from this something of special interest to ourselves. " The tendency of all modern nations is to larger aggregations of domains." Ireland, [cannot detachi herself from Great Britain. Canada is to become part of the Union, bat not peaceably. In religion) dogma is to die ont. Of course, it is somewhat unfair to summarise in this cruel way Mr. Croby's carefully balanced conclusions. So we shall leave the reader to discover for himself what he thinks of the future rela- tion of the sexes, and will only quote the sentenee,—" the science- crowned type of marriage will be monogamic." He doubts whether there will be, at least within a reasonable time, an improvement of the race brought about by ordered marriage arrangements. Our prophet does not believe in an universal language, and he appears to be a bimetallist. He believes in governments for rail- ways, &c., rather than corporations. Altogether, these "glimpses of the future" are well worth considering.
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