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riders would do well to lay to heart his counsels of moderation. He favors coeducation for most young people, and has a good word for the American girls who earn their own way along with the college boys. He would have shops, gardens, and fields connected with all secondary schools and colleges, on the principle that useful work in the open air has great physical and moral value for adolescents.

The author lays great stress on the doctrine that early marriages and sexual commerce are injurious, and that illicit intercourse is espe- cially harmful. The normal development of the entire body is per- verted, the happiness of the individual is discounted, offspring are likely to be defective, pauperism is made more certain, and society is burdened with a proletariate. The accumulation of energy depends on the cultivation in youth of the power and habit of inhibition of appetite. Self-denial must be learned by continence. Criminals, as a rule, are devoid of foresight and self-control; they yield easily to instincts of combativeness and lust; and their thefts are frequently committed to secure means of winning women. Early sexual satisfac- tion does not regulate but intensifies this savage and animal disposition and character. This chapter is a good antidote for the wicked advice given in Bebel's Die Frau, which is so popular among certain socialists of Germany.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Anarchism. A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory. By E. V. ZENKER. Pp. xiii + 323. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.

"ONLY when we have ceased to thrust aside the theory of anarchism as madness from the first ; only when we have perceived that one can and must understand many things that we certainly cannot like, only then will anarchists also place themselves on a closer human footing with us, and learn to love us as men, even though they often, perhaps, cannot understand us, and of their own accord abandon their worst argument, the bomb." (Preface, p. 9.)

"Anarchism may be defined etiologically as disbelief in the suita- bility of constituted society. With such views there would be only one way in which we could cut the ground from under the anarchists' feet. Society must anxiously watch that no one should have reason to doubt its intention of letting justice have free sway, but must raise up the despairing, and by all means in its power lead them back to