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School" and its social service, and on "Religion and the Church." They are both particularly valuable to teachers and managers of schools, as is also the discussion of the " Problems of Social Psychology," and the succeeding chapters. It is a matter of congratulation that a book of this kind has been written by a man who believes in the existence and importance of the spiritual element in human nature, and is not afraid to speak of the church and religion ; and to say, after treating nature studies most generously, " But the environment in which the citizens are living is not merely the physical world about us. Physical science is not the only science which deals with reality. Unless we actually identify physiology and psychology, matter and mind, and beg the whole question of materialism, there is still nearer to us than nature a world of spirit, of thinking beings."

The teachers of Indiana are very fortunate in having this book upon their reading list. The suggestions, in the preface, to students as to the manner of using the work, and the directions, in the appendix, for local studies, are of great practical value. Readers cannot do better than to adopt and follow the order of " topics for papers and discussions" given for the successive chapters, making use of maps and charts of their own immediate neighborhood, prepared by themselves.

Daniel Putnam.

State Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.

La guerre et ses prHendus bienfaits. Par J. Novicow. Paris : Armand Colin et 0=, 1898. Pp. 198. This work has a double claim to attention : in the first place, because the writer is already well known as the author of La politique iniernationale, Les luttes entre les societes humaines, and Conscience et volenti sociales; secondly, because the book covers, in brief compass, practically the entire field of discussion as to the causes and results of war. This will appear most clearly from an inspection of the table of contents, which is here transcribed :

I. "La guerre consider^e comme fin." II. "Le raisonnement unilateral."

III. "La guerre est une solution."

IV. " Resultats physiologiques." V. " Resultats ^conomiques."

VI. " Resultats politiques.'"