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Most of the time the author vainly attempts to tell the two stories at once, with the result that he expresses neither correctly. If he would shake off the incubus of his genetic hypothesis, and give us separately his account of the categories necessary in critical study of social rela- tions, the service would be considerable. He has done very nearly this in the final chapter, "The Theoretical Method of Types." It is the most straightforward analysis in the whole book. It is a pity that

the entire discussion is not equally lucid.

Albion W. Small.

American Contributions to Civilization, and Other Essays and Addresses. By Charles William Eliot, LL.D., President of Harvard University. New York : The Century Co. Such force, ripeness, strength, and sanity as America has developed must be sought in the thinking of the class to which President Eliot belongs. He is the busy man of leisure, the practical theorist, the cosmopolitan frontiersman, the cultured man of affairs of our American dlite. The type is too little known abroad, and more rare than we could wish at home. Yet, where there is one American who writes on the plane which President Eliot occupies, a thousand think or at least feel there, and his book will help them frame their thought. His chapters are entitled: "Five American Contributions to Civili- zation;" "Some Reasons why the American Republic May Endure;" "The Working of the American Democracy ;" " The Forgotten Mil- lions ;" " Family Stocks in a Democracy ;" " Equality in a Republic ;" "One Remedy for Municipal Misgovernment ;" "Wherein Popular Education has Failed;" "Three Results of the Scientific Study of Nature;" "The Happy Life ;" "A Republican Gentleman ;" "Present Disadvantages of Rich Men;" "The Exemption from Taxation;" "The Future of the New England Churches;" "Why We Honor the Puritans;" " Heroes of the Civil War ;" "International Arbitration ;" "Inscriptions." A. W. 8.

Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy. By E. L. Godkin. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co., 1898. Pp. vii + 265. " I HAVE endeavored in the following pages, not to describe democ- racy — something which has been done by abler hands than mine — but to describe some of the departures it has made from the ways which its earlier promoters expected it to follow. It has done a great