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confession to make, but sanity is so rare among people who call them- selves sociologists that a writer who manifests a little of it is at once conspicuous. Everything that Dr. Steinmetz writes impresses the reader at once as thoroughly well considered and judiciously balanced. There is an apparent discrepancy between his two summaries of attempts at classification (pp. 82 and 136), but this does not detract much from the value of the discussion. I am surprised, too, that Dr. Steinmetz does not think it worth while to mention Ratzenhofer's proposal for classi- fication of civilized societies (Wesen und Zweck der Politik, Vol. Ill, 62). The latter schedule would go far to supplement Steinmetz' own suggestions. The paper will prove to have more than ephemeral value.

While I recognize the importance of the bibliographical work con- tained in this number, the same qualifications are in point as in the case of the earlier issues. The book notices are very unequal in critical value, and they degenerate into a mere list of titles, with not a hint more to assist in placing the works named (e. g., pp. 248, 278, 284, 316, 349, 365, 392, etc., etc.). The value of the work would be increased if no titles were included without brief indication of the quality and scope of the contents. A. W. S.

Annales de V Institut International de Sociologie. Publiees sous la direction de RENE WORMS. Tome VI. Contenant les tra- vaux de 1'Annee 1899. Pp- 3 20 - Paris: V. Giard et E. Briere, 1900.

THE papers are : Loria, " La sociologie glottologique ;" Toennies, "Notions fondamentales de sociologie pure;" Worms, "L'individu et la collectivite ; " Garofalo, " Nietzsche et 1'individualisme ; " Kovalew- sky, " Le droit compart et la sociologie ; " de la Grasserie, " De la theocratic;" Groppali, "La sociologie ame"ricaine contemporaine;" Jaffe, "Petit commerce, grands magasins et societ^s "cooperatives;" Puglia, "Le mouvement de rhumanite";" Te"nicheff, "Des connais- sances."

The article by Professor Toennies flows deeper than the others and is of more radical importance. Americans will read Professor Grop- pali's paper with interest, and at the same time with amusement at the optical effects of viewing things from afar. On the whole this publi- cation is helping along the process of sifting our sociological notions until we shall be ready for severely scientific work.

A. W. S.