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for reconsideration of our currency system will by no means be exhausted when the 16 to i scheme is defeated. The accounts of the agrarian and labor movement are decidedly helpful, though but frag- mentary. The same is true of the American Protective Association, the Salvation Army, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the progress of the colored population, and the history of important meas- ures in connection with the careers of leaders, Blaine, Cleveland, Conk- ling, Garfield, Grant, Greeley, Harrison, Hayes, Sherman, etc.

While the volumes are primarily popular, both in style and matter, no student who wants to understand American social movements dur- ing the twenty-five years just past, can afford to miss the help which their vivid realism will afford.

ALBION W. SMALL.

The Coming Individualism. By A. EGMONT HAKE and O. E. WESSLAU. Archibald Constable & Co. (Westminster), 1895. Imported by The Macmillan Co. Pp. 347. $4.

THIS volume is so handsome that as one proceeds to examine it the idea is suggested that the motive for producing it must have been largely aesthetic. This remark is not intended to suggest that the motive was not also economic, or that the British publishers did not know what they were about in producing such a book; on the con- trary, there is not lacking evidence that Mr. A. Egmont Hake is a man of large means, for we know from the advertisement that he has previously published a number of books, and we may therefore take for granted that he has established his pecuniary responsibility to the satisfaction of his publishers. Nevertheless, we feel some surprise that the Macmillan Co. should have imported the book. Although he would not advise anyone to follow his example, the reviewer has con- scientiously read every word of the ten chapters written by Messrs. Hake and Wesslau, as well as the essay on " Municipal Government," by Mr. Francis Fletcher- Vane, which is bound with this work, although no mention of it appears on the title-page. The subjects discussed are interesting and the style is bright and animated, but the book is honeycombed with absurdities which arc the more noticeable because of the author's pretentious rationalism, and so far as the reviewer can judge there is no fresh thought in the work to justify its existence, unless we except the admirable presentation of the scope of operation