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an opportunity to deal another series of blows at the old organic analogy. He reiterates the familiar "differences" and ingeniously adds to the number. One is convinced, from the reading of this essay, that the fundamental ideas of the organic concept have really been "generalized," as Baldwin would say, and incorporated into the think- ing and terminology of the science, while the countless details of simi- larity and difference have practically been rejected and will be more and more ignored.

Of the other essays little need be said. They deal largely with technical criminal and judicial questions. The American reader is impressed by the serious way in which "Graphology" is treated. There are references to a growing literature, to a scientific terminology, and to other evidences of systematic study of the "physiognomy of handwriting."

The essay on Giddings' system is perhaps chiefly an exchange of compliments with the American sociologist. Tarde treats Giddings' work with great respect. While here and there he makes a mild criti- cism {petit reproche), on the whole the essay may be described as an appreciation. The French apostle of imitation does not, however, seem to be greatly impressed by "consciousness of kind." Indeed, this alliterative phrase loses much of its mystical magic when it is transformed into conscience d'espece.

As a whole, the volume does not, of course, rank with the more

systematic works of the same author, but it presents in an attractive

form a variety of problems of current interest in several departments

of social science.

George E. Vincent.

A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of IVoman. By Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough, Ph.D. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. Pp. iv -f 234.

We rather expect on taking up a book with this title by a woman to encounter some extreme views and statements, but we find nothing of the kind in this case. The volume is a very careful and sufficiently exhaustive study of a remarkable and lovable woman, a kindred spirit of Shelley, Byron, Tom Paine, Godwin, and the revolutionists of her day, but one whose impatience of social restraint was tempered with a most striking and consistent display of good sense — so far as her theo- ries are concerned, at any rate : in her practices she was less fortunate.