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characteristic of our American communities. Dr. Freund's method of treatment makes this tendency clearly evident.

In examining any treatise on the police power, one naturally turns to the author's discussion of the quasi-public industries as a test of the author's method of treatment. In chap. 17, entitled "Business Effected with a Public Interest," Dr. Freund has given us an admirable treatment of the subject. It is to be hoped in some future edition of the work Dr. Freund will extend his discussion to include the street railways, gas and electric-light, and water services.

The appearance of this work will undoubtedly contribute much toward giving the police power a more definite place in the curriculum of our American universities. With this work in hand, interest in the police power need no longer be confined to our law schools, but can readily find place among the general courses in political science. Students of law and politics are under deep obligations to Dr. Freund for having placed them in possession of a real guide in the study of this important subject.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The Negro: The Southerner's Problem. By THOMAS NELSON PAGE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. xii

This book is dedicated " to all those who truly wish to help solve the race problem," and it is a pleasure to commend it to all such. It is a collection of essays, some of which have been previously pub- lished, upon the relations of the negroes and the whites in the South and the solution of present difficulties. Like all that Mr. Page has written on the negro problem, these essays are characterized by a sanity of spirit and a painstaking thoroughness. Though Mr. Page is primarily a literary man, he has to a remarkable degree that open- ness of mind and impartiality of judgment which make up so largely the scientific attitude, and which go so far in the scientific treatment of any social question. However, his lack of scientific training leads him to make occasional blunders, as when he predicts (p. 288) that " before the end of the century there may be between sixty and eighty millions of negroes in this country."

The general trend and spirit of the book may perhaps be best shown by a few quotations :

The alleged danger of the educated negro becoming a greater menace to the white than the uneducated is a bugaboo which will not stand the test of