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students in the social sciences for the work he has done. The volume must represent years of severe thought ; and to place the results of such careful, faithful work before the world of students is a service

worthy of highest recognition.

B. H. MEYER. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

Factory People and Their Employers. By EDWIN L. SHUEY, M.A.

New York: Lentilhon & Co., 1900. Pp. 224. THE author has had daily experience in devising methods of making the relations of employers and employe's " pleasant and profitable." He has collected many examples of devices introduced into factories and shops in various parts of this country. Photographic illustrations add much interest to the presentation. It must be manifest to any unprejudiced person that there is an honest purpose to meet the responsibilities of the relation, and that kindness and inventiveness have added much to the comfort and happiness of the working people. The author describes methods of improving the physical surroundings of the factory and neighborhood ; schools, gymnastic appliances, baths, savings funds, pensions, libraries, and other means of physical and moral betterment. Since it has proved profitable to introduce these schemes, they are being imitated. " Philanthropy and 5 per cent." is contagious. C. R. HENDERSON.

Le Pouvoir extcutif aux tats-Unis. Deuxieme edition, revue, cor- rigee et augmentee. Par CHAMBRUN. Paris : A. Fontemoing. THE present (second) edition of this treatise bears no date ; the preface to the first edition is dated 1873. Without consulting the for- mer edition, it is impossible to say to what extent it has been changed or added to by the present editor ; it has certainly not been brought down to date, since no events or developments since Grant's administra- tion are noticed. The book appears to have been written for the pur- pose of bringing home to Frenchmen, who at the time were engaged in establishing their constitution upon a republican basis, the lessons to be drawn from the history of the executive power in America ; and this lends to the treatise a certain historical interest. The information which it gives appears to be accurate, and the judgment of the author is sound ; but the work is not sufficiently recent to call for extended comment. ERNST FREUND.