picture of the age when sugar was king. Professor Westergaard proposes to publish a second volume bringing the history to the end of the Napoleonic Wars and a third volume to deal with subsequent developments to the present day. In view of the recent purchase of the islands, however, a short supplementary chapter has been included in the present work, giving in bare outline a history of the period from 1755 to 1917. Mr. James MacKaye's Americanized Socialism (New York, Boni and Liveright, 1918; vi, 191 pp.) is a popularized, socialistic criticism of the existing economic order, expressed in every-day American terms. It makes no pretense to scholarly exposition; but as an argumentum ad hominem it is so plausibly and speciously contrived as to make a strong appeal to those readers whose usual literary diet is the daily newspaper and whose wavering attitude toward public policies is colored by a consciousness of shortcomings in the prevailing economic régime. More than two-thirds of the little volume are devoted to this popularly-phrased critical analysis. The author's constructive program, outlined in the last two chapters, is equally plausible in the simplicity of its central suggestion. "The safest, best and quickest method to successfully substitute a new and improved institution for an old one is the method employed in engineering to substitute a new and improved structure for an old one. The engineer in charge . . . . first tries a few samples of the new machinery. He gives them a try-out in practical competition with the old ones, under comparable conditions, and carefully notes the result. ... Successful and undisturbed operation are both assured by employing the experimental method of procedure." The author believes that "this method will be as successful as a method of substituting socialism for capitalism in industry as it would be for substituting turbine for reciprocating engines in a power station ". 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