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mere half dozen more or less. In this
case Mr.. Ellis confines his investigation
to those phases of social hygiene that for
| the time being are most to the front,
most the subject of common interest and
agitation. The woman question, to be
sure, is at the very top of these, and with
this the author sets out, tracing the
changing status of woman and stopping
for an examination of some of it's new
aspects and departures and possibilities.
The falling birth rate-a diversely mo-
mentous matter to the advocates of
splendid children as against those of
tant, eugencs, take up a good share of
consideration in this volume. Sexual hy-
siene is another topic of analysis and
recommendation. Educational studies in
the psychology of childhood, bearing di-
rectly upon religious education in it's re-
lation to social hygiene, it's place, its
time. its influence in the development of
children, make one of the most suggestive
OF these pertinent expert Investigations.
The whole is a fine body of deliberate
thouSht-clean-cut. sane. nnafraid, pro-
gressive thought. buttressed by the re-
suits of science and scholarship and put
out through the medium of most en-
gasing personality-one that conceals
the dreariness of common didactics.
ARMAMENTS AND ARBITRATION.
By Rear Admiral A. T. Mahan. T..
s. n. (retiredD, author of The In
etc. New York: Harper & Bros.
Rear Admiral Mahan secures the ready
welcome of readers almost as much by
the sturdiness of his stand, by the clarity
and vigor and assurance of his manner,
as he does by the indisputable authority
of his statements and the logic of his
judgments. Admiral Mahan believes in a
full and efficient armament. AS a man of
he hpliavaS In through
many arduouS and responsible years learn
ed to his own satisfaction, at least, that
peace is largely dependent upon a cooked
and primed readiness for war. In this
unqualifiedly abe and brilliant study the
author contrasts the powers and limita-
tions of ornaments and arbitratiOn-Of
force and law-aS instruments of interna-
tional adjustments and balances. The
root of his argument is knit about the
fundamental facts of human nature as
these interpret national policies through
"a most formidable array of historic Cir
ournStances and event 1t is a splendid
argument, many-sided and convincing.
a bold other side of the shield whose at
tentive study will repay the altruistic ad-
vocates of an immediate universal peace.
THE NEW COMPETITION. BY Arthur
jerome Eddy, author of 'The Law
of Combinations" etc. New York:
II. Appleton d Co.
This is one of the best of the new
books on the new industrial issues.
Best. to name one reason. because it
holds itself to facts, gathering and
spreading out what has really been
done what is being done, to meet the
exactions of the modern economic situ-
alton. Best, to name another reason,
because of the manner of it's present
ment. The author goes straight to the
core of every matter in hand. This he
strips clean of unessentials and irrelc-
vancies. and sets it down on the page
Y, ith the dramatic art of the adver-
tiser, so that he who runs may read
ard believe. The book throughout is
clean muscle and bone-nOt d shred OF
fat in it. In the main it is exposition
Il clear handling of economic facts, Il
clear exposition of commercial prac-
tices as these. in obedience to the spirit
of the age, pass from competition to
cooperation. The author spreads the
principles that underlie this change
from one order to another and dis
cusses the tendencies sprineing from it.
The study passes one from the old
brutal, cut-throat, iShmaelitish cOmpe-
tition into a larger one, one consonant
not only with the claims of human
dealing, but In accord also with the in
vihcible trend toward great, and even
greater. industrial and commercial
combinations. \ few men of affairs
will read this book either in compliant
or controversial frame of mind, as the
it and it's kind belongs is with the up
coming generation = in the schools
where the men and women are now in
the making.
HEROES OF THE NATIONS SERIES.
Edited by III. w. &. Davix.-CANUTE
THE GREAT; 095-1O35: and the
Rise Of Danish Imperialism During
the Viking Age. BY Laurence Mar
cellus Larson. Phi. D., associate pro-
fessor of history in the University
of Illinois New York: G. T. Put
nam's Sons.
This interesting historic study goes
back wellnigh a thousand years to search
out the life story of canute, the great
Dane, conqueror of England and rude
prototype of modern Imperialism. This
biography covers not only the conquest
of England, but it details also the sub
sequent reyolts, conspiracies and rebel
lions that brought about the final col