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a punished man. In this volume certain important facts and sug- gestions are found, especially those relating to diet, cleanliness, industries, and educational agencies, and the hopeful words relating to Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth. The criticisms of Elmira Reforma- tory and of the Bertillon system of identification are not supported by evidence, and the prison structure of Sing Sing has been improved since this description was written. C. R. H.

Monsieur, Madame et. . . . I'autre! Histoire d'un scandale.

By VICTOR CHARBONNEL et la redaction de la Raison.

Paris: Societe Parisienne d'edition, 1904. Pp. 333. Fr.

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We shall only mention this volume as a sociological document It relates real and interesting facts which paint vividly certain customs of the political and journalistic worlds of France. It may be that these facts, being related by one of the parties concerned, are a little overdrawn, be it consciously or not ; but, such as they are, they have their importance for the thinker, the sociologist, and the moralist.

A. AND H. H.

Intoxicants and Opium in All Lands and Times. By DR. AND MRS. WILBUR F. CRAFTS, AND MISSES MARY AND MARGARET W. LEITCH. Revised edition. Washington, D. C. : The International Reform Bureau, 1904.

While this compilation is frankly a vigorous and partisan plea for prohibition of the liquor traffic everywhere and always, it is more particularly an impassioned protest against toleration of the sale of intoxicants and opium by the " Christian nations " to the inferior races in Africa and elsewhere. The volume is chiefly a collection of testimonies from missionaries in all parts of the world.

C. R. H.