so distinctly differentiates mediaevalism from modernism in ethics as the appeal to results from the premature decisions of categories. Why not raise this standard in the open, and defend it against all comers? ALBION W. SMALL The Great White Plague. By EDWARD O. OTIS, M.D. use. New This treatise was prepared by a scientific specialist for popular It discusses the nature, causes, and treatment of tuberculosis in a direct, plain, and impressive manner and offers wise practical suggestions for treatment at home and in workplaces. It would have been more effective in some places if it had illustrations, and the economic basis for the conflict with disease might have been more fully treated. But on the whole it is an excellent book for the purpose. C. R. HENDERSON Les réflexions de Monsieur Houlette. Par FRANCOIS DE WITTGUIZOT. Paris, Perrin et Cie. Paris, 1909. Pp. 294. The literary interest of this volume lies in the concrete fiction form and charming style, while the work is mentioned in this place because it offers to the student of social problems and tendencies in France the interpretations of a historical student who has the best opportunities for direct observation. The author has succeeded. in making a vivid picture of the conflicting ethical and religious influences which contend for control in the education of a boy of this century, as typified by a solicitous mother, a liberal Catholic priest, a sensible Protestant teacher on one side and imperfect schools and vicious publications on the other. C. R. HENDERSON The Crime Problem. By COL. VINCENT MYRON MASTEN. Elmira, N. Y. : Star-Gazette Co., 1909. Pp. 156. The military instructor of Elmira Reformatory has illustrated some of the modern theories of punishment and reformation by materials drawn from his own observation. It is significant as a reflection of personal experiences in daily contact with criminals. C. R. HENDERSON The City of the Dinner-Pail. By J. T. LINCOLN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1909. Pp. 186. A graceful sketch of random reflections of a sympathetic employer who understands the motives of rich and poor is worth a glance. Even if there is no addition to knowledge it is something. to discover a business man who can interpret the real meaning of trade unions, read the employers a lesson of patience, and keep his faith in the soundness of national life. C. R. HENDERSON Mendelism. By R. C. PUNNETT. Wilshire Book Co., 1909. 50 cents. For the sociologist who has little time to enter into a detailed study of the more technical aspect of Mendelism and the theory of heredity, Mr. Punnett's little volume will prove a valuable and concise as well as scientifically accurate statement of the scope of this new field of biological inquiry. Those, however, who will expect to find in the volume any application of the theory to social phenomena will be disappointed. Mr. Wilshire, in a somewhat disconnected preface to the book, would have us think that Mendelism is the last theory of evolution that has come to reconcile what Darwinism has left unreconciled between evolution' and socialism. One fails to see the connection between the mutation theory as a factor in the creation of new species by leaps and bounds and Mendelism which so far has not ventured beyond the study of selection and variation in the animal world. It must also be remembered that De Vries and not Mendel is the chief exponent of the mutation theory which Mr. Wilshire desires to use as a new law of nature which justifies the hope of socialists for a sudden change of the present system of society into a socialist commonwealth. Socialism may come, but Mendelism has no bearing upon it unless it be as a method of human selection which will lead toward more intelligent breeding of men. Mendelism, of all theories of evolution, admits the least of the element of new characters, unless it be the result of combination of existing elements dominating over other existing elements. The last chapter in the book, "Old Bottles," may be characterized as an ungracious and unscientific attempt to assail Professor Thomson of England, whose only sin is scientific conservatism in a field where biology is most uncertain. CAROL ARONOVICI RECENT LITERATURE BOOKS Briggs, C. A. Church Unity: Studies of Its Most Important Problems. N. Y.: Scribner. Pp. 12+458. $2.50. Coolidge, Mary. Chinese Immigration. N. Y. Holt & Co. Pp. 10+531. $1.75. 95. Dawbarn, C. Y. C. Liberty and Progress. Eucken, Rudolf. The Problem of Human Life. N. Y.: Scribner. Pp. 25+582. $3.00. Francis, Alexander. Americans: An Impression. N. Y.: Appleton. 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