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and cooperation with the labor movement which will enable it the more rapidly to become in America what it has long been in England, a recognized force making for industrial peace and social progress. This however is frankly admitted to be the ultimate outcome of the organi- zation of labor.

On the other hand there is enough information given and interest promoted on all points, even in this case, to quicken the desire to acquire more. Impulse to further reading and study is given by the attractive phrasing of the chapter headings, by the rarely pertinent and suggestive excerpts from sociological literature with which each topic is made more luminous and winsome and by the bibliography in the appen- dix which refers the reader of each chapter to a few readily accessible and authoritative volumes. It would greatly facilitate the group-study of the topics in the family, church, school, club, labor union, or Chau- tauqua circle, if in addition, to the running marginal analysis, there should be added to each chapter a list of review questions, themes for essays, questions for discussion, subjects for collateral reading with titles to bibliography added in immediate connection therewith. Besides the uses thus suggested, a place may well be given this volume as a reference text-book on practical theology in our seminaries and schools for training the ministry and laity of the churches. To meet the wide demand for a first book introductory to the study and literature of social phenomena and practical progress, "The Social Spirit in America" may be unqualifiedly commended. Professor Henderson and the Chautauqua Press are to be congratulated upon having so satisfactorily supplied the long-felt want for just such a book.

GRAHAM TAYLOR.

Woman and the Republic. A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage

Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the

Claims of its Foremost Advocates. By HELEN KENDRICK

JOHNSON. D. Appleton & Co. 1897. Pp. 327.

IT is remarkable that the most forcible and elaborate dissent from

the woman's suffrage movement should come from a woman. Mrs.

Johnson regards' civilization as a status reached and maintained by

force, or a show of force, and believes that the male has been and will

continue to be the bearer of social force, while woman enjoys benefits

proportionate to the degree of socialization effected by man. "The