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md extended his researches to even the |
Vatican archives. The result has been a |
most exhaustive and ponderous work of |
four volumes, covering the period from 1912 |
to 1913, ana twenty years have been de- |
voted TO the task. In the mean time. how |
ever, III response to loud demand. he has |
issued a briefer history of the war. for the |
whole period, based on the same studies. |
and it is that now under notice. 1t is a
work suited TO the general reader. and will |
find larger clientage of that class than the |
greater work can possibly command, even if
the author is spared to round il out to COM
pletion His work he divides into three
parts: treatment of the events pre-
cedent to and giving immediate oc-
casion for the Thirty Years War" the
history of the Bohemian instruction
the judicial proceedings and confiscations
which followed, and the consequent re-
dictionary measures of religious reforma-
ton. The evidences are patent that he has
relied in his work more upon his own re-
search among archives than upon the
numerous works upon the history of the
war. There is much new matter offered
as, for instance, verifcation of the state
ment regarding the part Father Dominicus
took in the council of the officers of the
League and the Emperor before the battle
of White Mountain, the authorization of
the questioned statement that by his ex-
hortations he procured the battle being
made by report by Dr. Angelini, one of
Father Dominicus' attendants; and also
with regard to Waldstein and his quarrels
with the League. He sheds new light, too,
upon the plans of the Swedish King and
furnishes decisive evidence from Spanish
archives that there was actual negotiation
in regard to the assassination of GuStavuS
Adolphus. The translator, in offering Pro-
feSSor Gindley's work in an English dress,
presents an Introductory chapter that will
prevent misconceptions that would have
ANNOYED many readers The work is well
provided with maps, thus rendering the
geography of the countries treated of clear
to the reader, and without which the same
obstacles would present that hinder histori-
cal study where the geography of the coun-
try at various dates is not familiar to the
student The volumes thus presented will
command wide reading and will largely
satisfy the demand for Il new popular his
tory of the bloody contest of thirty years
in the seventeenth century that was chiefly
caused, as our author states it, by the in
compatibility of the religious views which
prevailed among the people of the time,
and the discord of which continues 10 this
day
MUTUAL Evolution N ANIMALS. BY George
John Romanes, NJ. A. Ii. D., +. R. S. With
PosthumoS Essay on Instinct, by Charles Oar
win. New York: D. Appleton & Co; San
Francisco James 7. White X Co. vol; u mo-
cloth.
This is really an extension or elabora-
ton of a work by Dr. Romanes issued
some years ago, in the International Scien-
tific series, on animal intelligence for the
doctor found the work to so grow upon his
hands and expand in the realm of psychol-
ogy that the present volume became a
necessity 1t is scarcely needed that we
should say it is full of intereSt-the
subject itself makes that patent,
and Professor Romanes wide reputation
as an investigator and original thinker in
the fields of science, with his scholarly
ability and his pleasantly easy diction,
about which there is no obscurity or con-
fusion of expression, sufficiently augment
the attractivenesS naturally attaching to
the subject. A very large portion of the
work is devoted to the treatment of " In
stinct" because the Doctor recognizes that
there is prevalent confusion among the
authorities as to that branch of psychOl-
ogy. A perusal of this work, interesting as
it is, will, however, impress the reader with
the conviction that the author has departed
from the original purpose with which he
entered upon these studies-that he has
advanced into the more subtle questions of
psychology. He confesses to this in the
statement that his intention TO make his
second volume a consideration of mental
evolution in the human species has been
superseded by the present treatise, and
that mental evolution will be taken
up in third work. In other
1ic
has led him into broader field than he
contemplated. As consequence there
peryades the whole book shadow of
uncertainty as to where he will
next find himself This evidence is
capable of demonstration if space afforded
US the opportunity especially do the chap
tiers on Pleasures and Pains, and the treat
Use on instinct and the placing OF yoltiOn
and its relation to intellect open the door
for analytical criticism of his text. But if
DR.. Romanes is in deep waters and placing
himself in comparison with the philoso-
piers and psychologists who have preceded
him, his book is none the less valuable
and interesting 1t is work of consum-
mate skill, of marked originality and is so
full of illustrations drawn from the
world of fact, that the text attracts and
holds the most Indifferent reader. The
chapters on DEMONSTRATION would, and
Similar Instincts in Unallied Animals. and
the sub-chapter on Migration, as well that
on the Origin and Development of Instincts,
possess almost a romantic interest and
overflow with suggestions comprehensive
by any reader.
THE WOMAN QUESTION IN EUROPE. Edited by
Theodore Stanton, NJ. A, with an introduction
by Frances Power Cobbe New York: G.. p
Putnam's Sons. San Francisco: A. l.. Ban
croft q Co.
Mr. Stanton has been engaged for three
years in collecting these papers. With two
exceptions all the contributions are by
women. That on the woman's suffrage
movement in England is by Millicent Gar
rett Faucet; Germany by Anna Schepeler-
Lette, Jenny Hirsch and Maria Gallon /;
Holland Elsie Van Calcar Austria, Jo-
hanna Leilenberger Norway, Camilla Gull
lett; Sweden, Resale Ulrica Olivecrona !;
Denmark, Kristine Frederiksen; France,
by the editor; Italy, by Aurelia Cimiru,
Folliero De Luna and Dora ID Istria; Spain,
by Conception Arenal; Portugal, by Rodri-
CUES De Freitas; Belgium, by Dr. Isala
Van Diest; Switzerland, by Marie Gpgg !;
Russia, by Maria Zebrikotf; Poland, by
Elise Orts,o; Bohemia, by Elise Kras-
nohorska, and the Orient by Kaliope
A. kehaya A work by such collabo-
TdtOTS Cannot OUT De Oh uTl)aSSlllg interest
in America. The purpose appears to have
been to present the facts relative the politi-
cal industrial social, educational and reli-
gous status Of woman in Europe, and a
history of the steps marking her progress,
together with consideration of the him
derances to the full development of her
powers. Ofone thing even the most an
tagonistic reader of these admirable essays
BY representative women and men Will be
convinced, that the woman question is a
progressive one in Europe. 1t is no mere
fancy, no trivial reform, but one of the
chief factors in modern civilization. The
reader must not expect to find these ESSAYS
exhaustive. On the contrary, they are
nearly ali disappointing in onerespect-the
patent etfortfulness of the text, the en-
deavor TO say great deal in a
small space, the struggle to compass in
a monograph great issues and all
that relates to them. As a matter of course,
the result is series of essays, every one of
which testifies to nervousness, and marred