the conclusions reached, Ethical Gains through Legislation, by Florence Kelly, is a most valuable book to students of social conditions and of the general welfare. Legislation and judicial decision concerning the rights of the child, the rights of women, the rights of all labourers to leisure through restricted hours of labour, and the rights of the purchaser to knowledge of conditions of production and distribution of goods, are clearly presented and interpreted. The author is prepared for her work, and by long experience in social, economic investigation as government and State official, as special investigator, as a settlement resident, and as a member of the Illinois bar. The volume forms the latest addition to the American Citizens Library.

GOETHE'S IPHIGENIE AUF TAURIS*

This scholarly edition, with introduction and notes by Max Winkler, is intended for students who are mature enough and who possess sufficient knowledge of German to study Iphigenie as literature. It is accordingly supplied with a very thorough and many-sided discussion of matter necessary to the student's understanding of the drama. Professor Winkler's experience has taught him that the average college student possesses little knowledge of Greek mythology and literature, so essential in any comparative treatment of Goethe's Iphigenie. He has accordingly given a rather extended account of the legends upon which the drama is based and their use in ancient literature. This, with the detailed account, the genesis of the work, critical discussion of characters and plot, full notes, etc., occupies over 200 pages and seems rather disproportionate to the slightly less than 100 pages of text. The introduction reads well, the notes are scholarly and well chosen. A good biography is at the end of the volume. It seems an excellent piece of editing.

GEOGRAPHIES†

The authors of Commercial Geography, Messrs. Gannett, Garrison and Houston, combine a wide experience along the various lines of scientific training, practical experience and previous authorship in the preparation of this text. It is devoted to a discussion of commercial conditions, commercial products and commercial countries, and will serve as an excellent text for a new type of course now being introduced into many schools and colleges. In his volume on Africa, in his series of Geographical Readers, F. G. Carpenter has added another very readable supplementary text, which combines the interest of travel with the study of a science.

GREEK READER

This volume, by E. C. Marchant, is adapted from Wilamowitz's Griechisches Lesebuch. The fifty pages of Greek text include maxims

*Henry Holt and Company, New York. +American Book Company, New York. Greek Reader. Volume I. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

and anecdotes, and selections from Dion of Prusa, Arrian, Strabo and Thucydides. The book is meant to save students "from being set down at a too early stage in their learning of Greek to Euripides and Xenophon." "A course of parasangs," says Mr. Marchant, "inspired in me a hatred of Xenophon so intense that it took me twenty years to forgive him." One feels extremely sorry for his teacher; there is so much more in Xenophon than parasangs! In our American school system there is little room for a Greek reader between the beginner's book and Xenophon. If there were such room, is Thucydides easier than Xenophon or Euripides?

HANDBOOK OF UNITED STATES POLITICAL HISTORY*

A book of reference by Malcolm Townsend, containing a mine of information, and valuable to teacher, student, publicist and general reader. The very greatest variety of important events, essential facts, curious bits of information, general statistics concerning almost every topic connected with our national history is included. The material is classified, but has no logical arrangement, and the use of fanciful titles, such as "The Going of the Nations," to indicate the facts relative to the exclusion of European colonisation efforts, are criticisms which might be offered. However, such a book is worth just the service it gives, and while of no value to the trained student, it will be of very great convenience to many others.

HOW TO TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN†.

In this volume, Sara Cone Bryant discusses the value of story-telling, offers practical advice concerning the art, and cites numerous examples of perfection in the art.

LUCIAN: SELECTED WRITINGS‡ Teachers of Greek will be prepared to give a hearty welcome to F. G. Allinson's Lucian. Despite Lucian's importance, only once before (1882) has an edition of any part of his works been published in America. The introduction contains very valuable matter on Lucian's life and times, his writings, and especially on the influence of Lucian both on painters and writers down to our own times. Unfortunately, however, this is in large measure spoiled by the style: there is a perpetual straining after effect: a lack of dignity and of clearness frequently results. One wishes the editor had taken to heart a sentence he wrote on Lucian, thus: "It is his clear and well-trimmed style that has done honour to him." The selections are interesting, and the notes, reinforced by the excellent account of Lucian's Greek in the introduction and by the brief discussions prefixed to each selection, are ample.

*Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, Bosto +Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. Ginn and Company, Boston and New York.

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY*

II.

A Manual of Laboratory Practice, by Edward Bradford Titchener. Volume Quantitative Experiments.

The long-awaited second volume of Professor Titchener's Experimental Psychology is now issued by the Macmillan Company. It is a manual of "Quantitative Experiments," as was its predecessor of "Qualitative," and, like the latter, consists of two parts, an instructor's and a student's manual, sold separately. In the Instructor's Manual is to be especially noted the valuable historical introduction on "The Rise and Progress of Quantitative Psychology." The book will receive a more extended notice in a later issue.

LIVY: THE WAR WITH HANNIBAL†

This volume, by Edward A. Bechtel, contains selections from each book of Livy's third decade and from Book XXXIX., which together give the whole story of Hannibal. Naturally, the selections from XXI., XII. are the longest; they cover 88 pages. Not only is the general plan excellent, but the individual selections, in these two books especially, are chosen with good judgment. The introduction and notes, however, seem somewhat meagre. It may be doubted whether they will afford assistance and guidance enough to the young student who comes for the first time to the study of Livy.

THE NEW KNOWLEDGE‡

The New Knowledge, by Professor Robert K. Duncan, is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of its kind. It falls beween the technical treatise and the popular magazine article of more or less sensational character, yet gives an accurate presentation of those recent discoveries in chemistry and physics that are revolutionising many ideas of science accepted in the past, and bids fair to introduce inventions and processes quite as revolutionary as those resulting from the increased knowledge of electricity during the past few decades. Thus the new theories concerning gaseous ions, the various forms of radio-activity, the theory of atomic distintegration with the consequent reformulation of the fundamental ideas in physical science receive attention. A form of clear exposition essential to the successful teacher in so technical a subject, a grasp of entire subject treated, a knowledge of the work of the leading scientists of every country, are possessed by the author and render the treatise acceptable to the scientist, and helpful and sufficient for the layman.

PHYSICS: TWO TEXT-BOOKS Physics.† by Charles R. Mann and George R. Twist, offers an excellent embodiment of most recent formulation of methods of teaching *The Macmillan Cempany. New York. +Scott, Forseman and Company, Chicago. A. S. Barnes and Company, New York.

science. It aims to avoid the loose and desultory results that were occasioned by the introduction of laboratory methods for the pupil, but to combine with these methods the continuity and completeness of logical exposition. The application of mathematical formulæ to practical problems is constant, but subordinate. The use of illustrations and text problems from most recent practical applications of physical principles, together with the suggestion of the historical and biographical material, adds interest. Elementary Physical Science, by Professor J. H. Woodhull, is an excellent text and guide in experimental work for the use of the child in graded schools where courses in that science have been introduced.

In this helpful and suggestive volume Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin, attempts to apply the results of modern psychological investigation to life. Few among modern psychologists apply the results of those investigations to the problems of practical life. In this case, the author shows as a result of the four great inferences from modern psychology that life consists in a multiplicity of intricate relations, that the essential unity of these relations is involved in our own nature, that this unity demands action, because will and action are of central importance in the mental life of the individual, and that nowhere can the individual rest in abstraction, but must find reality in the concrete. It abounds in illustration and is marked by lucidity of expression and exposition. Both in the broader and in the more technical sense, the work is educational.

SOCIOLOGY†

Blackmar's Sociology is a working manual intended "to present a brief outline of sociology founded on the principles established by standard authorities on the subject." It discusses the nature and import of sociology, social evolution, socialisation and social control, social ideals, social pathology, methods of social investigation, and the history of sociology. To be reviewed later in this department.

SUDERMANN'S TEJA

This short drama, with introduction, notes and vocabulary, by Herbert C. Sanborn, is intended for second or third year reading in

*The American Book Company, New York. 1
+The Macmillan Company, New York.
Henry Holt and Company, New York.

preparatory schools or colleges, preferably the former. The introduction sketches briefly Sudermann's work as an author, after which follows some dozen pages dealing with the historical background of the play. The notes are often elementary in character, often containing needless ballast. This criticism holds particularly true with regard to the vocabulary, in which past and perfect participles of strong verbs are listed. One regrets to see American teachers encouraged by such editions to read plays like Teja too early in the school course.

TRADE UNIONISM AND LABOUR

PROBLEMS*

A series of twenty-seven essays, edited by John R. Commons. They are mostly reprints from current scientific magazines on a great variety of aspects of the social and economic situation. These topics are widely representative, including the Teamsters' Union of Chicago, the Miners' Union, the sweating system, arbitration laws, introduction of labour-saving machinery, the negro artisan, woman's wages, hours of labour, workingmen's insurance and insurance against non-employment. Every topic is by a specialist, so that the data are technically accurate, and the analysis and conclusions scientifically tested. While the book possesses no unit of system or method and certainly does not present any system of principles, yet it is aimed as a text-book as well as a book of reference or for the technical student. At least, it will furnish the raw mate*Ginn and Company, Boston and New York.

rial for a course in descriptive economics, and as such is a serviceable volume.

THUCYDIDES: BOOKS II. AND III.*

Professor W. A. Lamberton has long been known as a student of Thucydides by his edition of Books VI., VII. The present book by him would be welcome, if for no other reason, because no edition of Book II. has heretofore been published in this country. But the volume has other claims. The introduction discusses in an interesting way Thucydides's life, his relation to the culture and thought of the time, his work and his language. The notes, printed below the text, are copious. There are four good maps, an appendix on the MSS. and the editions, and an apparatus criticus. Good indexes close the book.

UNCLE SAM AND HIS CHILDREN†

This is a nondescript volume, by Justin Wade Shaw, on historical, geographical, economic and ethnographic aspects of our national life. It is a cross between a text-book on civil government and a sociological treatise of the type of Our Country, but a book which will be of interest and service to boy or girl, or those of older growth desiring to get in simple, concrete form some of the advantages that our country offers to its citizens, and at the same time some of the disadvantages arising from the too liberal acceptance of these advantages by people not prepared to appreciate the responsibilities that go with the privileges. *American Book Company, New York. †A. S. Barnes and Company, New York.

READERS' GUIDE TO BOOKS RE

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NEW YORK CITY

D. Appleton and Company:
Reptiles. By H. W. McVickar.

Three friends made a wager of five hundred dollars that if they should fall in love within five years they will fall out again. When the time has expired, one pays up; another pays one-third of the amount, claiming that he is still twothirds in love with his wife; while the third, the cynical promoter of the scheme, confesses that he still loves his wife. The book is illustrated by the author.

A. S. Barnes and Company:

The Mountain of Fears. By Henry C. Rowland.

Reviewed elsewhere in this number of THE BOOKMAN.

Brentano's:

Children of Fate. By Adolphe Danziger.

Jewish life in Poland is the theme of this "story of passion." Rosen, a young officer in a synagogue, is the hero, while the heroine is a noble woman of Poland. Some of the instances narrated in the story include the rescue of two women from perilous situations by Joseph, an important part which he plays in a Polish revolution, and the outcome of a religious upheaval.

Consolidated Retail Booksellers:

The Village of Hide and Seek. By Bingham Thoburn Wilson.

A little boy and girl are the principal characters in this story for children. Having been driven from the village inn by their grandfather to search for pennyroyal in the mountains, the little hero and heroine come in contact with a good old woman, a witch, who leads them up to the Village of Hide and Seek. The dwellings in this place are dollhouses, and the inhabitants are all dolls. The witch, who proves to be the sister of Santa Claus, is the ruler of the town. There are eight coloured illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton.

Thomas Y. Crowell and Company:

Auto Fun. Pictures and Comments from "Life."

The person whose horse has been frightened by the automobile or who has been choked with dust or gasoline

fumes will appreciate this book just as well as the motor-car enthusiast, as it contains jibes and jests for both. It is a collection of what is said to be the best pictures on the subject produced in "Life."

The Life that Counts. By Samuel V. Cole. The author is said to strike the keynote of his book in the following quotation from his introduction: "What counts is the good life; there is no other worth living. But whatever is good, is good for something beyond itself; goodness in the abstract, goodness isolated and unrelated, does not exist. Goodness implies a goal, an object, a something on which to expend its energy. The good life is the life that reaches out, that fulfils itself, in ministration to other lives. The life that counts is the life that serves; the life that counts most is the life that serves most."

Stories from Plutarch. By F. Jameson Rowbotham.

The King's Sword, The God of the Spears, Hannibal's Schoolmaster and His Father's Crown are the four accounts which Mr. Rowbotham has chosen from Plutarch. These tell the stories of Theseus, of Romulus, of Fabius Maximus, and of Alcibiades, respectively. The work is illustrated.

One Hundred Best American Poems. Selected by John R. Howard.

What the editor has considered as the hundred best American poems are here issued in the "Handy Volume Classics" series. The work of no living poet has been included. It is a companion volume to "One Hundred Best English Poems," published last year.

Selections from the Writings of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by U. Waldo Cutler.

What is said to be the best of Benjamin Franklin's writings, irrespective of his "Autobiography," published last year, is included in this addition to the "Handy Volume Classics."

The Diary of a Bride.

The title of this volume explains its object. The typography of the book is attractive.

Dodd, Mead and Company:

Great Portraits. Edited and Translated by Esther Singleton.

The editor has endeavoured in this volume "to present as many styles of treatment and varieties of subject as possible, besides including certain portraits of renown." The portraits, which

are fifty-two in number, are by such artists as Raphael, Gainsborough, Van Dyck, Titian, Holbein, Dürer, Rossetti, etc.; the descriptions are by prominent and well-known writers. The volume is illustrated by a reproduction of each portrait.

A Yankee in Pigmy Land. By William Edgar Geil.

"Being the narrative of a journey across Africa from Mombasa through the Great Pigmy Forest to Banana. Among the items of importance described by the author are the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest wild-game region of the earth, the Congo atrocities, the foreign missionaries and their settlements, and the homeland of the pigmies. To this last subject seven chapters are devoted. The book contains one hundred full-page illustrations and a map of the region visited by Mr. Geil.

Elsie and Her Namesakes. By Martha Finley.

The children of the present generation will derive as much pleasure from the twenty-eighth volume of the "Elsie" books as did their mothers from the first in the series. Much of this story concerns the preparation for a wedding and the long trip upon which the bridal couple go, accompanied by several of their relatives. The stories of war which Grandma Elsie tells to the children are no minor part of the book.

Fox, Duffield and Company:

Man and the Earth. By Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.

The author has endeavoured to set forth in this volume "certain reasons why there should be a change in the point of view from which we commonly regard the resources of the earth." It is a study of the earth's inhabitants and its material resources for taking care of them in order to insure a future supply of various products which it yields. Some of the subjects discussed are: The Exhaustion of the Metals, The Problem of the Nile, The Maintenance of the Soil, The Resources of the Sea, The Future of Nature upon the Earth, The Attitude of Man to the Earth, etc.

Letters of Henrik Ibsen. Translated by John Nilsen Laurvik and Mary Morison.

The translators of this work have collected a number of letters from Ibsen, to which they have added an introduction and notes, and have included them in this volume, in the hope of giving to the public a substitute for an autobiography which the dramatist intended to write

but which he put off from time to time, until he was physically unable to do it. These letters, which cover the period from 1849 to 1898, were to such persons as Georg Brandes, Frederick Hegel, Hans Christian Andersen, William Archer, Edmund Gosse, Grieg, Björnson, and King Charles of Sweden. A photogravure portrait of Ibsen appears as the frontispiece.

Harper and Brothers:

Land Ho! By Morgan Robertson.

A dozen of Mr. Robertson's latest stories of the sea are included in this volume. An old Scotchman by the name of Angus McPherson, commonly called "Scotty" by his associates, is the principal figure in three tales. Some of the titles are: The Dollar, The Wave, The Lobster, The Mistake, The Dancer, The Submarine Destroyer, On the Rio Grande, etc.

The Hobart Company:

A Soldier's Trial. By General Charles King.

Various phases of army life are shown in General King's books. In this latest novel he has embodied an argument which favours the restoration of the army canteen. Although this question is handled to some extent, the romance is the principal theme of the story.

Henry Holt and Company:

Loser's Luck. By Charles Tenney Jackson. The sub-title of this book-"Being the questionable enterprises of a yachtsman, a princess and certain filibusters in Central America"-gives a good idea of the story. Contrary to the usual order of things, it is the princess who is in charge of the filibusters, and she has seized the yacht of a young American for purposes of her own, and not until they are well under way does she discover that she has captured the owner as well. The story abounds in adventure and romance.

B. W. Huebsch:

The Poetry and Philosophy of Browning. A Handbook of Six Lectures. By Edward Howard Griggs.

"The aim of this course is to give an introduction to the poetry and philosophy of Browning through the careful study of a few typical and especially lofty expressions of his genius." There are outlines, topics for study and discussion, and references for each lecture. The pamphlet is bound in paper.

Mozart. Compiled and Annotated by Friedrich Kerst. Edited and Translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel.