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like slavery, but slavery is a social state relatively superior to that deep and brutal savagery in which so many of the " submerged " habitually live. Nothing in such treatment would stand in the way of restoring to liberty all who could be educated and trained to enjoy it without detriment to society.

The frankly socialistic bias of the authors is not concealed, and it seems at places to color the reasoning. But the book as a whole bears every mark of honest, thorough, and highly intelligent investigation and statement. It is simply indispensable to a student of the labor movement in this century. C. R. HENDERSON.

Introduction to the Study of Sociology. By J. H. W. STUCK ENBERG, D.D. A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1898. Pp. xii + 336. $1.50.

"NOT an introduction to sociology, but to its study" (p. 239). The book was prepared for three classes of inquirers : first, " the large class of professional men and other persons of culture who have had no instruction in sociology, but are desirous of obtaining an idea of its nature and materials, and of pursuing its study privately ; second, students who have no sociology in their collegiate course, but realize that without it their education and their preparation for life are incomplete ; third, teachers of social science who desire a compend as the basis of their instruction, or who, while lecturing on sociology, want a manual in the hands of their students."

Every person who is teaching sociology, or proposing to teach it, ought to read this book. The fewer of the other two classes who get hold of it the better. The main subjects discussed are : I, " The Genesis of the Idea of Society;" II, " Definition and Scope of Sociology;" III, "The Relation of Sociology to Other Social Disciplines;" IV, "Division of Sociology;" V, "The Principles of Society ptr se;" VI. "Tin Historical Evolution of the Principles of Society;" VII. "Sociological Ethics, or the Progress of Society;" VIII, "The Method in the Study of Sociology;" IX, " Is Sociology a Science?" X, "The Sociological Study of the Age."

Dr. Stuckenberg's view of sociology is sane and comprehensive. e its value for teachers. A person fit to teach sociology would profit by comparison of his own conception of the subject with that outlined in this volume. I protest, however, against so much begin- ning to get ready to prepare to commence, as a way of introducing