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brary" (The Macmillan Company) is Pro fessor Edward Alsworth Ross' study in sociology entitled Social Control. It is "a survey of the foundations of order," in which the author seeks to determine how far the order we see about us is due to social influences."—Of especial interest to the lawyer is the chapter on "Early Laws and Customs in Frank B. Sanborn's Nnv Hampshire (Houghton, Mifflin and Com pany). Among other facts is noted the last claim in that State to benefit of clergy, in 1776. In this same series of "American Commonwealths" another recent volume is Professor George P. Garrison's Texas,—an interesting and romantic history of a "Con test of Civilizations."—The need of control of monopolies and of reform of the tariff is set forth by George L. Bolen in his Plain Facts as to the Trusts and the Tariff (The Macmillan Company). The book con tains much valuable information.—The Blow from Behind, by Fred C. Chamberlin (Lee and Shepard), is a childish and bitter attack on Anti-Imperialists. Doubtless those who take pride in the exploits of General Funston will enjoy the flamboyant patriot ism of the book.—The student of Dante will welcome the translation of the De Mon archie, with introduction and notes by Aure lia Henry (Houghton, Mifflin and Company). As the editor well says: "Never has ideal civil polity been imaged forth in more sim plicity and beauty, and never perhaps has one been more utterly impracticable.''—Un der the title Napoleon and Machiavelli are gathered together five suggestive essays by Frank Preston Stearns,—"The Man of Destiny," "The Waterloo Campaign," "Goethe's Position in Practical Politics," "The Politics of 'The Divina Commedia,'" and "Machiavelli's 'Prince.'" Whether writing on art, on literature, or, as here, on political science, Mr. Stearns' admirable literary style, keen insight, and independ ence of view compel and hold the reader's attention.—For one who appreciates keen wit Samuel M. Crothers' The Gentle Reader (Houghton, Mifflin and Company), is a god send. In the ten or a dozen essays here collected Mr. Crothers gives full play to

humor as fanciful as it is delicate.—To all college students, and to their parents as well, is to be commended the little book of essays Routine and Ideals, by Le Baron R. Briggs (Houghton, Mifflin and Company). Professor Briggs writes on college and college education with the authority which comes from long service as Dean of Har vard College.—A recent course of lectures on Ultimate Conceptions of Faith, delivered at Yale University on the Lyman Beecher foundation, by the Reverend George A. Gordon, have been published by Houghton. Mifflin and Company. The same publishers have also brought out The Beauty of Wis dom, a volume of daily readings from some ancient writers, compiled by the Reverend James De Normandie; Conquering Success, or Life in Earnest, by William Matthews.— Edmund Burke's Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, with notes and introduction by James Hugh Moffatt, is published in con venient form for school use by Hinds, Xoble and Eldridge.—The Queen's Progress (Houghton, Mifflin and Company), is an attractively gotten up and well illustrated holiday volume of Elizabethan sketches, by Felix E. Schelling.—Two recent volumes in "The American Sportsman's Library" (The Macmillan Company), which will interest every fisherman, are those on Bass. Pike and Perch, by James A. Henshall. and on The Big Game Fishes of the United States, by Charles Frederick Holden. The authors are experienced sportsmen, and the books are fully illustrated.— In a small volume which should be in the hands of every parent with young children Dr. Samuel A. Hop kins, Professor of Theology and Practice of Dentistry in Tufts Dental College, gives sound advice on the important question of The Care of the Teeth (D. Appleton and Company). Dr. Hopkins, who speaks with the authority of over twenty years' practice, believes that with proper care "the decay of the teeth, may, in great measure, be pre vented," and points out in detail what this care should be.—J. B. Mackenzie has col lected his more serious poems in a volume entitled Alfred the Great and Other Poems.