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wishes to know Russian functionaries and the Russian government. It has its place next to Memoirs of a Revolutionist, by Kropotkin, and La Russie souterraine, by Stepnyak, etc. It completes them.

Souvenirs de Tunisie et d'Algerie. By G. SAINT PAUL. With a Preface by TH. RIBOT. Paris : Charles Lavauzelle, 1904. Pp. 360.

The title is unpretentious. It hides but too well the sociological and psychological interest of Dr. Saint Paul, the author of the well- known work, Le langage interieur et les paraphasies (la fonction endophasique). Taken as a whole, the Souvenirs are ethnological and sociological studies in the interest of practical acquaintance with the types described. The author is well read and has a philo- sophical mind, and his work abounds in subtle and suggestive remarks. The subjects treated are various : scenes of Tunisian life ; impressions and notes on Bizerte, Tunis, and Algiers ; the habits of a few animals of North Africa (sloughi, gazelle, dromedary, horse, donkey, etc.) ; reflections on the state and the future of the popula- tions of Algeria and Tunis ; on the customs and the character of the natives ; colonists and colonization in Tunisia. In spite of this diversity, the author, who is a fine observer and who applies a scien- tific method, has been able to study and explain his subjects with great skill. It is a book that the ethnologist, the psychologist, and the economist may read with profit.

Les retraites des travailleurs. By PAUL IMBERT. Paris : Perrin, 1905. Pp. 327. Fr. 3.50.

This volume, written by an engineer of the government factories, is preceded by a short preface by M. Paul Deschanel, a deputy. The author is already known to those interested in social questions. Indeed, he has published a book of real value, Rapport entre patrons et ouvriers dans la grande Industrie. The present work is well fortified with facts, and abundantly furnished with statistics and figures. The author's examination of the question from the his- torical point of view, both in France and abroad, constitutes an excellent part of the book, and is quite complete. The keen critical sense of the author may be seen in the remarks he makes on the different systems employed in Belgium, in Italy, and in Germany. He suggests a system that may be open to criticism, but is perhaps