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appearance of similarity between this and the other labor copartnership organizations. He says on p. 280 :

The feeling of the English Wholesale is so strong against labor copart- nership that it will not take part in the exhibitions of the Cooperative Festi- vals because the Labor Association shows its productions there.

The fact is the Cooperative Festivals only admit the products of labor copartnership, and the English Wholesale Society thus excludes itself. In spite of these slight errors Mr. Lloyd's book is the chief economic contribution of 1898.

Charles Zueblin.

The Evolution of the English House. By Sidney Oldall Addy, M.A. With 42 illustrations. New York : The Macmillan Co., 1898. Pp. xxviii + 223. gi.50.

This is one of the "Social England" series edited by Kenelm D. Cotes. The aim of the series, as set forth in the editorial preface of the present number, is noteworthy and praiseworthy: "The 'Social England' series rests upon the conviction that it is possible to make a successful attempt to give an account, not merely of politics and wars, but also of religion, commerce, art, literature, law, science, agriculture, and all that follows from their inclusion, and that without a due knowl- edge of the last we have no real explanation of any of the number." "The central idea is that the greatness or weakness of a nation does not depend on the greatness or weakness of any one man or body of men, and that the odd millions have always had their part to play. To understand how great that was and is, we must understand the way in which they spent their lives, what they really cared for, what they fought for, and, in a word, what they lived for. To leave out nine- tenths of the national life, and to call the rest a history of the nation, is misleading." The reader is led to expect, with the completion of the series, a scientific analysis by specialists of the many elements — whether found in natural environment, in the heritage from past ages, in innovations from abroad, or in the immediate social environment — which go to make up the English nation and the English society. However successful this particular attempt may prove, it at least indi- cates the lines upon which all scientific historical and sociological investigation must proceed.

The present number of the series is an interesting study of the