The Bystander: A Monthly Review of Current Events Canadian & General, Vol. II January to June1881

Discussion of Canadian, American, English, and European and Eastern affairs as well as thought and opinion. Canadian news includes the Biddulph (Donnelly murder) trials, Sir Alex. Galt on the future of Canada, French nationality in Quebec, pauperism and its remedies, public justice in Manitoba, etc. American events include a review of A Century of Dishonour, capital punishment in Michigan, and the "extermination" of Mormonism. English affairs include agrarian communism, Irish immigration schemes. European: anti-Jewish outrages, advent of Gambetta to power, British Empire in India, the coming revolution in Russia, rising in the Transvaal, etc. Also words on anarchist literature, Sara Bernhardt in Toronto, revision of the Bible, Christmas, the new version of Koran, prevalence of suicide, whether war will die out.