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Part II, on the "Index to Health Rights," treats clearly and practically of mouth breathing, eye strain, ear trouble, dental sanita- tion, abnormally bright children, nervousness, and a number of other matters of special interest to every parent and teacher. "Is your school manufacturing physical defects?" is the pertinent subject of one chapter, and the author takes pains to give the reader a compre- hensive schedule of questions by which he can arrive at an answer.

Part III treats of co-operation in meeting health obligations, with especial emphasis on the need of periodic physical examina- tions for all persons. Two of the best chapters are "The Last Days of Tuberculosis" and "The Fight for Clean Milk."

Parts IV and V, respectively, deal with official machinery for enforcing health rights arid with the needed alliance between hygiene, patriotism, and religion. The book is copiously illustrated, perhaps a little too exclusively from New York City conditions, and contains a number of reproductions of schedules and charts in actual use.

A. B. Wolfe

Industrial Problems. By N. A. Richardson. Chicago : Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1910. Pp. 229. Mr. Richardson has repeated, in vivid style and with fresh illustrations, the traditional arraignment of the capitalistic system and the well-known promises of socialism. Criticism of the book would involve a treatise of the general subject.

C. R. Henderson

The American Newspaper. By James Edward Rogers. Chi- cago: The University of Chicago Press, 1909. London: T. Fisher Unwin. Pp. xiv+213. The conclusion reached in Mr. Rogers' study of over 15,000 American newspapers is that the American press represents the nation. "My investigations have convinced me that if the Ameri- can press is to be judged harshly, and if it has failed to attain its highest possibilities as an educative force in the community, this is due to the fact that it is a reflex of the nation rather than a leader of it" (p. xi). This is his conclusion in spite of the fact that he admits: "Herein lies the great power of the press, its power to suggest to a whole community what it should think and