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Lester F. Ward, Ch. Limousin, A. Groppali, F. Puglia, E. de Roberty, Ren Worms, Alfred Fouillee, G. Tarde, Ed. Sanz y Escartin, L. Winiarski. The discussion is a portion of the material treated at the fourth congress of the Institut, in 1900, another portion having appeared in the issue of last year. A disciple of Marx, M. Kelles- Krantz, submits a statement of the doctrine of this school, and around it the symposium centers, as though it had been a debate in which all actually participated. Readers will doubtless agree with the editor (p. 45) that the impression left by the discussion is that it is another display of the impossibility of accounting for the social pro- cess as the working of a single principle, and consequently that neither of the special social sciences can maintain a claim to supremacy over the others. The strength and the weakness of historical materialism are nowhere, to my knowledge, more clearly exhibited than in this discussion. It ought to be of permanent value as an approach to a tenable philosophy of social forces.

Professor Durkheim's journal contains two original papers : one by the editor, on totemism, the other by M. F. Simiand, "Etude sur le prix du charbon, en France et au XIX e siecle." The monographs in this publication have always been important, and the present vol- ume continues the tradition. We must repeat our former judgment, however, that the reviews leave much to be desired. As a bibliography the list is far from complete, yet an attempt is made to pass judgment on more material than the contributors have time to examine carefully enough to give their judgment weight. There are so many evidences of hasty conclusions that this part of the volume has very doubtful value. It would be worth more if it merely catalogued two-thirds of the works named, and gave more critical attention to the more impor- tant of the remaining third.

A. W. S.

Le Dottrine Sociologiche. Del DR. FAUSTO SQUILLACHE. Roma: C. Colombo, 1902. Pp. 539.

To AMERICANS this volume will be interesting chiefly as an index of the attention which Italian scholars are paying to the subject of sociology. We have gone over the ground covered by the book so often that we have feeble interest in another review of the literature of the subject, unless it has decided superiority of some sort. If we had no other account of the different schools of sociology, we should cer-