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additional material on points already treated, but also furnishes new discussions of the geography of commerce and of war. The work is already too well known among students to require a characterization

here.

CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON.

Les graves. Par LEON DE SEILHAC. (" Bibliotheque d'economie sociale.") Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1903. Pp. vii -f 256. Fr. 2.

THIS little book on "Strikes," by a "permanent member of the Muse"e social," deals principally with conditions in France, although it makes reference to the experiences of England, the United States, and New Zealand. After some discussion of current opinion in regard to strikes, their general nature, and their cost, M. de Seilhac reviews at some length the history of the strike movement in France from 1791 to the present time, French legislation bearing on the right to strike, and the socialist support of the strike as an instrument of social recon- struction. A chapter on the details of a particular strike, and a classifi- cation of strikes into different types, with concrete instances of each, throws some light on the way these things are managed in France. The book ends with a description of the feeble efforts toward arbitration hitherto made in France, and with an exceedingly brief statement of the further possibilities of the policy of conciliation. M. de Seilhac appears to have a needlessly unsympathetic attitude toward his subject ; and it is difficult to determine to what readers the book is addressed. It is too sketchy to be of value to students and too technical to appeal to the general reader. Like many French books of its type, it is unprovided with an index, and has scanty references to authorities.

La democratic socialiste allemande. Par EDGARD MILHAUD, pro- fesseur a 1'Universite de Geneve. Paris : Felix Alcan, 1903. Pp. iv -H59I-

IN no other country has socialism achieved so definite and impor- tant a political organization as it has in Germany ; and an adequate study of the German Social-Democrat party is bound to be of the utmost value to students of modern (social, industrial, and political) conditions. Such a study M. Milhaud appears to have supplied. Of socialist sym- pathies, he had, according to his preface, exceptional opportunities for personal contact with both the leaders and the rank and file of the