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Anthropoiogical Society Of PARIS and
professor IN the School OF Anthropology.
London; WALrEn ScorT. Imported by
CHARLES SCnfBSER's SoSs. New York.
Those who have read Professor LrIouR-
NrAu's Evolution Of Marriage and tho
Family will need no urging to the perusal
of the present volume. He treats the evo-
luton of the rights of property from an
sthnographic standpoint. His theories, so
Gar as he theories at all, arc dis
tinctiy tinged with nltruism. He sees
IN the vast accumulation OF property
In the hands OF individuals the
forerunner of decadence in all civilized
society. and believes that more en-
liehtened humanity, having at last sue
ceeded in creating sociological science,
may avoid the rock wherein Athens and
Rome were shipwrecked." In the main we
cannot but think that Professor LErouR-
NEau's deductions are Utopian; and that
the gcrminal fact--the instinct for the ac-
Quirement of property-irom which he
evolves his argument. proves a possibility
exactly contrary 20 that he hopes for.
Could the commuDalism he regards ne so
desirable for the welfare of the human
race and society obtain 1t would not be
long before IL would be broken up by the
same process that has been gong on ever
since property development began with
the "Anarchic Hordes.' Nevertheless the
volume bristles with interesting facts. pre-
scented in most captivating lights. The
author precedes his discussion Of the in
stinct of property among men with several
chapters on the instinct ofproperty among
insects and animals. a1d then carries us
through an immense ana most in
structive field of ethnic study. He
distinctly antagonlzes the EVIL" OF
inheritance of property. but is far from
being radical IN his views, and would bring
about his Utopia by slow and conservative
development. For example, referring to
reform in the matter Of inheritance. he
says Mill, who was by no means revo-
lutiopary. proposed to reduce inherited
property 10 a modest maximum. In this
path We may go still further. BY the
establishments of successive duties the
State constantly attacks property. These
duties, the most legitimate of all, should
be progressively raised and graduated ac-
cordlng to the amount OF inheritance. If the
scale we're wisely adopted through long
series OF years this progression would
enable us TO reach with out disturbance
the almost total abolition of inherited
property" The process Profe ssor LEToUR-
NEAU thinks would evolve I he pecunlsry
resources necessary to meet the social
needs resulting from the reform.
WEsT. JOHNSTON a Co. $40.
The Religious Development an he ProriRce Of
North Carolina. BY STEPHEN BRAUREaARD
WEES, Phi. d., professor of History and
Political Science, Trinity College, North
Carolina. Johns Hopkins University
Science, HERBERT Is. ADAMS, Editor.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
Published monthly. May June, 1892.
6s pages; price 80 cents.
TIE HreckeT. BY RoBERT LOUIS STrvENsoN
and LIoYp OsBonNR. Illustrated by Will
LIAM HALL and w. J. MErcALP. New
York, CaARLEs ScBIBHTR's Sons. WEST,
JOHNSTON 4 Co. sl.25.
The Bul CAR and Other Stories. BY A. d.
FRosT. New York: CHARLES SCRIBSER' 5
SoSs.
An exceedingly clever production, in
which the stories are told principally by
groiesque illustrations.
WEST, JOHNSTON d Co.
Res Indicate, Pdprs. and Essays. BY AU-
CUISINE BIRRELL. New York: CHARLES
SCRIByRR's SoSs. IL.
Res Ji1icd'g" is in its subie ct-matter
and style continuation of " Ob0,r Dsc'G,"
by the same author. and like the latter coll
lections Is not a book to be read through
at a sitting. Each essay aud paper ~
finished production. bringing us INTO
,,la q nd TQlo+fOnq
character or characters IN the world OF
letters. We are presented in Res Judi
oa,rn to dear stupid. old SAMUEL RICHARD
eos. EpWARD GIsBoH, WILLIAM CowPEn,
CfosaT BoBRow, Cardinal NIvMAR, MAT
THEW ARNOLD. WILLIAM HazLrrr, and
others, and find in them fresh att
tions. The author does good part by
MATHEW ARNOLD in the rank he assigns
his poetry. He met es out TO this poet the
iustice seldom accorded him without run
ming into exaggeration. lie also gives us
an especially appreciatlvc insight INTO he
life and work OF RICHARDSON. There isno I
d dull page in the book.
Wbena Mans Sinqls. A Tale of Literary Life.
Bv j. NJ. BARRE. New York: Lowell,
CoEYRIL a Co. Paper. 30 cents; cloth,
81.
IL we'll known 60 the reading world as the
author of that most original and captl-
waiting romance, THE Little Minister"
In this last book he begins his story IN
Thrums. but makes his humble hero go TO
London and enter upon JOURNALISTIC NE
there and win fame. an d fall In love with a
ciil Of high birth. Incidentally he gives an
insight into the management OF LONDON
and provincial dailies. He carries MS nero
through the welLknown stages 81 poverty,
uureouited love, distrust, mlsrepresenta-
tiop. &c, into the pleasant paths OF pro-
iessional and matrimonial success
IL is no such book as The Little Minis
ter" or "A Window in Ihrums." 1t lacks
the quaintness and freshness OF those two
charming books. The best chapters IN the
story are those which introduce the nero
al his saw-mll in Thrums and describe ms
return there after he has achieved dis
tluction.
The Voice from Sinai: The Eternal Bases OF
Me Moral Ldtr BY L. w. FARRAR, ID. D.,
y. r. s., Archdeacon of Westminster,
&c. &c. THOMAS WHITAKER, New York.
1872. Pages 3l4. Syo. Price, $3.50.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON u Co..
Richmond, Va.
Hero we have fourteen sermons. with an
Introduction, by the above eminent divine
and scholar, who visited our country a few
wears ago. They are dedicated 10 four OF
his living sons and 10 the memory OF one
deceased. and all but three OF the sermons
were delivered in Westminster Abbey IN
1891 'e2. An unusually large number OF
Young men were content 10 stand Tor
Lours in the transepts OF the Abbey TO
hear them, so crowded were the congrega-
tions. The wide circulation OF them can
NOT but be OF great benefit.
Ii is not strictly logical TO claim that the
Ten commandments are 1.-THE eternal
bases of the moral law Those bases must
have annotated The Voice from Sinai"
else where would mankind have been all
the time prior 10 that when Moses reached
the "thunder-riven crags" OF that sacred
mountain. Adam, Noah. Enoch, ADra-
han, Isaac and Jacob must have had
those bases as we'll as Moses. and Moses
and his enfranchised followers had them
whilst they were marching towards Sinai.
The relationship between God and HIS
creatures and those OF His creatures
amongst and towards one another-in other
words. the fatherhooa OF God. and the
creaturehood of man and the brotherhood
o: man are 1.-THE eternal bases" of the
moral law. The Ten Commandments are
the God-giyen expression, epitomc. or
summary Of that law. He who spake rs
never man spake" gave still shorter
summary when lie reduced tue ten to only