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have had to grow by educating investigators out of this unscientific prejudice. Schaffle will be held in higher honor when sociology has enlisted its share of investigators who understand the importance of

correct beginnings.

ALBION W. SMALL.

Annales de LInstitut International de Sociologic, Publiees sous la direction de RENE WORMS, Secretaire General. II, Travaux du Second Congrcs, tenu a Paris en Sep.-Oct., 1895. Paris, V. Giard et E. Briere. Pp. 462. 7 fr.

THE contents of this second volume compare very favorably with those of the first. Nearly every paper is valuable and the condensed remarks of extemporaneous critics occasionally contain nuggets of wisdom. The chief titles are : The Different Conceptions of Sociology, Rene" Worms; The Method of Sociology, S. R. Steinmetz; The Lan- guage of Sociology, G. Combes de Lestrade ; Individualism and the Forms of Marriage, M. Abrikossoff ; The Matriarcate, Ed. Wester- mark ; The Family, its Genesis and Evolution, Louis Gumplowicz; The Historical Transition from Collective Property to Individual Prop- erty, Maxime Kovalewsky ; Is there a Law of the Evolution of Political Forms ? Paul de Lilienfeld ; The Evolution of the Idea of Aristocracy, Raoul de la Grasserie ; The Law of Revolutionary Retrospection, in Comparison with Tarde's Theory of Imitation, C. De Krauz ; The Ori- gin of Races and the Division of Labor, Me*cislas Golberg; and finally a notable symposium upon Crime as a Social Phenomenon, by MM. Ferdinand Toennies, Enrico Ferri, R. Garofalo, J. J. Tavares de Mad- eiros, and F. Puglia.

In the course of his paper and in closing the discussion (p. 75) M. Tarde takes the hopeful view that the differences in terms and classifi- cations do not amount to as radical and serious disagreement about the scope and method of sociology as would appear. M. Piche (p. 67) proposes the term Societology (Socie'tologie) to denote the natural his- tory of societies, and would apply the term sociology to " the science of social forms, the laws of which are to be derived by experimentation " and subsequently applied. Dr. Steinmetz compresses into four pages (77-80) some very sensible rem.nks which it would be worth while for every sociologist in the United States to consider. They remind me of criticisms which Professor Powers has made on several occasions; the