Review of Periodicals other by makin it worth their while. In the United States t e iron hand of compulsion is normally encased in the velvet glove of volun tary service." Biography. Fielding. "Henry Fielding: Some Unpublished Letters and Records." By G. M. Godden. Fortnightly Review, v. 86, p. 821 (Nov.). "Prison reform,
r-law reform, reform
of the scandal of pu lie executions, solutions for the problems of unemployment, of the housing of the poor, and of vagrancy, are but a few of the matters dealt within pamph lets weighty with the learning) of an accom plished lawyer, and written y the pen that wrote “Tom Jones." Hobbes. "Thomas Hobbes." Contemporary Review, v. 96, Literary Supplement, p. 19
(Nov.). "Had Hobbes lived a century and a half later he would probably have been a pro found and enthusiastic idealist. That mighty ‘working head’ would have worked back wards from his definitions instead of forward,
would have gone to the root of the things and surpassed the analysis of Kant. But his age compelled him to take the line he did, a line that was primarily intended to clear the
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Ry John J. Macfarlane; “Conditions in Stove anufacturing," by William J. Myers; “The Stove Trade,’ by ames W. VanCleave; “Diffi culties and N s of the Paper and Pulp Industry," by Arthur C. Hastings; “Pros cts of the Meat Packing Industry," by ichael Ryan; "Revival of the Trade in Woolens," by William Whitman; "The Pros rity of the Brewing Industry," by Hugh F. ox; “The American Iron Trade of 1909 and the Outlook," by A. I. Findley; “The Outlook for Paint Manufacture," by G. B. Heckel; “Trade Revival in the Lumber Indust," RLJohn E. Williams; “South America ur nufacturers' Greatest Op rtunity," by Hon. John Barrett; "The Yel ow Pine Situa tion," by C. D. Johnson; “Hosiery Manufac ture in the United States," by C. B. Carter; “The Market for Locomotives," b Alba B. Johnson; “Automobile Sales and t e Panic,"
y David M. Parry; "Govemment Assistance to Export Trade,’ by C. S. Donaldson; “The Return of Prosper-it," by Hon. 0. P. Austin; "Present American usiness Conditions in the Distilling IndustrB," by Morris F. West heimer; “Recent evelopments in the Life Insurance Business," by L. G. Fouse; “The Recovery from the Depression," by John Moody; and "The Present Supply of Freight Cars,’ by Arthur Hale.
world of cant, of self-deception, of decadent
Conservation of Natural Resources. “What
scholasticism. He had to stand on his defini tions or give up the struggle." Sorel. “A French Defense of Violence." By Ernest Dimnet. Forum, v. 42, p. 413 (Nov.). “The French Socialists are nearly all of them bourgeois—sometimes uncommonly wealthy—who, for urposes of their own, deceive and befool th the pralétaires and the richer classes. . . . None of them plays that part better than Jaurés, and none is in consequence more objectionable to M. Sorel. . . . The reintroduction of morals into the metaphysics of labor is a wonderful change for the better." Vattel. “The Great Jun'sts of the World; XI, Ernerich de Vattel." By J. E. G. de Montmorency. journal of Comparative Legis lotion, v. 10, pt. 1, no. 21, N. S., p. 17 (Oct.). “Certainly it appears to me that Wolfi was by far the ter thinker of the two, and no doubt Vattel himself would have admitted
Conservation Means to the Nation's Progress and Prosperity." By Day Allen Willey (after interviews with Senator Francis G. New lands).
Putnam's, v. 7,: p. 259 (Dec.).
practical man, and he brought Wolfi’s doc
"If by uniting the powers of the states and the powers of communities and the powers of individuals with the powers of the national government, we can diminish the cost to that government and make feasible projects which would otherwise be so costly as to be imprac ticable, shall we hesitate to enlist that co operation? Good business judgment requires it." "Mr. Ballinger and the National Grab-Bag." By John L. Mathews. Hampton's, v. 23, p. 825 (Dec.). “His talents as a lawyer have ever been employed by corporations or individuals who believe that the treasures of the public domain should become their roperty. . . . His point of view may be 01 -fashioned, but it is not likely that he can be proved guilty of
tunes, with certain modifications, into the
corrupt acts."
this. ‘ But, on the other hand, Vattel was a
domain of practical life." Commerce. “American Business Condi
“The A B C of Conservation." By Gifford Pinchot.
tions."
Being v. 34, no. 3, of the Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Nov.). ‘
This interesting number contains the follow
- in darticles, eac
e :—
by an expert in his own
“The Securities Market as an Index of
Business Conditions," by Thomas Gibson; "Present Condition of International Trade,"
Outlook, v. 93, p. 770 (Dec. 4).
“It is just as essential for the public welfare that the people should retain and exercise control of water power monopoly on navi able as on non-navigable streams. If the 'fiiculties are greater, then the danger that the water powers may pass out of the people's hands on the lower navigable parts of the streams is greater." Germany. "The New Germany-an Object
