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story of the methods and institutions which he has established. While expert opinion on this side of the Atlantic is divided in respect to his emigration policy and some of the schemes for raising money, there are many of his measures which reveal a singular genius for social invention and inspiration of service.

Predigt-Probleme.

C. R. HENDERSON.

By PROFESSOR DR. O. BAUMGARTEN. Tübingen and Leipzig: J. C. B. Mohr, 1904. Pp. 149.

In the modern spirit the author discusses methods of evangelization, topical sermons, Bible lessons, tedious and interesting sermons, biblical ideas and Christian experience, the modern consciousness, the enduring element in the festivals of the church. He urges the cultivation of spiritual energy, intelligence, imagination, determination, positive faith with open-mindedness, intense piety. It is a serious appeal for the union of learning, practical purpose, and piety in the effort to win back the indifferent.

C. R. HENDERSON.

La réglementation du travail.
Lecoffre, 1904. Pp. 203.

By A. BÉCHAUX.

Paris:

M. Béchaux has written a large number of compact works on social questions, in which he has shown signal ability to select the essential points of the matter and present them tersely and vividly. He writes from a conservative point of view, opposed to socialism and critical to trades unions. In the volume under review he sketches the modern development of "factory laws," the attempts to secure international co-operation, and the socialistic efforts to promote state monopolies.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Children's Courts in the United States: Reports Prepared for the International Prison Commission. By SAMUEL J. BARROWS, Commissioner for the United States. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.

Dr. Barrows has brought together and wisely interpreted the best collection of material we have on the most remarkable child-saving movement of the century. Judges Tuthill, Hurley, Murphy, Meyer, Wilkin, Lindsey, Stubbs, and other pioneers describe and explain

the procedure with the skill and insight of prophets and pioneers. A digest of the various state laws is printed in the appendix. C. R. HENDERSON.

Methods of Penal Administration in the United States. By EDWARD GRUBB, M.A., Secretary of the Howard Association. Pp. 63.

Mr. Grubb has here published the notes made in a somewhat extended but rapid journey in this country in 1894. He studied state reformatories, the George Junior Republic, the parole system, probation officers, children's courts, southern prisons, peonage, and lynching. The brief observations are candid and fair.

C. R. HENDERSON.

American Pauperism and the Abolition of Pauperism. By ISADOR LADOFF. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1904. Pp. 230.

This book is one of the conventional arguments from misery on behalf of socialism. The picture of the darker aspects of recent conditions of unskilled immigrants and their competitors is drawn quite vividly to awaken expectations of a remedy. Pauperism, child labor, and the growth of corporations are cited, and then the natural evolution of socialism is announced.

C. R. HENDERSON.

The Child Housekeeper. By ELIZABETH CORSON AND OTHERS. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1903. Pp. 187.

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The object of this beautiful publication is to "teach young girls to work neatly and intelligently at home with the utensils and materials there provided." The topics of the chapters are: firebuilding, setting the table, washing dishes, bedmaking, sweeping and dusting, cleaning, laundry work, mending, care of the baby. Music, songs, pictures, references to articles enrich the pages.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Class Struggles in America. By A. M. SIMONS. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co. Pp. 32.

Mr. Simons employs the "economic interpretation of history" to the evolution of the industrial system of the United States. It is a vigorous and ingenious socialistic pamphlet.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Feuerbach, the Roots of the Socialist Philosophy. By FREDERICK ENGELS; translated by AUSTIN LEWIS. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co., 1903. Pp. 133.

It is interesting to note that a discussion in the history philosophy is published as a campaign document for workingmen in Chicago. It would be instructive to follow its sale and discover its influence. C. R. HENDERSON.

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