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may be often deserted. Religion as a separate interest is not valued ; but in reality it is a wider and deeper power than ever. It flows beyond the boundaries of churches. It reappears in athletics and in hospitals, in all the social efforts to help men to live a perfect human life. It cares for culture and for righteousness, and it builds schools and inspires civic reforms. The movements on behalf of workingmen are limited by economical barriers, but their energy is a religious con- viction of the worth of man. Religion does not deny but respects the value of special sciences, and it accepts their verdict as to the wisest way of enlarging and beautifying human life. In this service the school, the press, the theater, the state are cooperating factors, but none of these can take the place of the church. Each institution has its function and its honor. As organized religion comes frankly to accept its social ministry as the educator and inspirer of conscience, and as it more fully recognizes the religious quality of all conduct which perfects personality, the church will more deserve and receive the help of earnest men. The book is a strong and typical work by one who occupies an honorable and influential pulpit where once stood Phillips Brooks.

C. R. HENDERSON.

The American Conference on International Arbitration held in Wash- ington, April, 1896. New York : The Baker and Taylor Co., 1896.

THIS valuable report presents the ideals, arguments, and practical proposals of the friends of the peace movement in the United States. The documentary history of the movement is given ; the details of the business of the Conference, the speeches of CarlSchurz, Edward Atkin- son, James B. Angell, J. B. Moore, Merrill Edwards Gates, and many others. One of the best parts of this excellent volume is the "Historical Notes on Arbitration," by John Bassett Moore, in the appendix.

C. R. HENDERSON.