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Various Questions Of the nay.

Though handicapped slightly by the
title. Social Insurance" Henry Holt
and Company. and by an inclination TO
bear in mind the calls Of philanthropy. I.
NJ. Rubinow has written a sensible and
instructive treatise on the different forms
OF insuring workmen. with accounts Of
the experiments which have been made
in other countries. He deals with the
questions Of Industrial accidents. Of en-
ployers' liability. OF compensation laws,
OF insurance against accident, sickness,
old age. death, and unemployment In
European lands and in the United States.
II Is a serious and objective examination
Of the problems, though the author does
not withhold his own views, and readers
who may be interested in all or any Of
them can read the book with profit.
The basis for the rational discussion
Of a matter that will be kept before the
public for some time to come will be
found in Samuel q Dunn's Government
Ownership OF Railways" (Appletons)
The author gives the arguments for and
against including his own opinions. but
the more important portion Of his book
consists of the careful description OF
how both State and private ownership
now WI Ncu tp " tue III tstut III al tne
countries from which accurate facts
could be ascertained. He examines all
sides Of the question--cost Of building
and maintenance. organization, the kind
OF service rendered. rates. profits, and
so forth.
More general is the comparative study
OF municipal methods and developments
in Modern Cities" by DR.. Horatio NJ.
Dali o~A D,
(Funk and Wagnalls Company. The
authors examined many European cities,
chiefly in Italy, Switzerland and Ger
many. with an eye to the good points In
them that might be applied to American
towns. They set down their general
lzations and much theoretical matter, so
that their book takes the form Of an
argument. backed by favorable examples.
rather than Of a dispassionate survey OF
facts, II contains many helpful sug-
gestions.
contribution to the new school OF
deficiency" Is made by William Kent in
investigating an Industry" John Wiley
and Sons. New York;. He imagines a
business In which all employed wish 10
fii.d out what Is wrong, and applies to
1t his Ideas Of how a diagnosis should
be made. 1t Is an Interesting exposition
of methods.
brief statement OF 1.-THE Facts of
Socialism" (John Lane Company il
made by Jessie Wallace Hughan, Phi. d.
II Is cOlorless enough to seem fair to
persons with socialist leanings, and II
read carefully and exactly as the au-
thor words her definitions and marshall,
her facts will seem fair to others as
well.
subject whose scientific foundation
! is still In the stages Of tentative inves-
tigation and which has been discredited
by the Wild guesses and congratulations
OF its most noted investigator, Lom-
broso. the so-called science Of Grim
inology." is placed before the pub
lie in a popular form In Causes and
Cures Of Crime" by Thomas Speed
Mosby &C. v. Mosby Company, St.
Louis). II suffers, In common with
most Of the literature on the subject
| from the acceptance as proved facts of
what are at best possible hypothesis,
and devotes far too much space rela-
lively to advocating a radical system
for the checking OF hereditary charac-
teristics.
Many articles in which President
David Starr Jordan expresses his dis.