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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 Associa- tion. 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. 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: fire- building, 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.