la femme bel-esprit is disgusting to him. "La Femme bel-esprit," he says, "is a plague to her husband, to her children, to her friends, in brief to all." The education of woman must be subject to the one idea that she is to become wife and mother. Her main virtue should be placidity. An independent, intellectual, or religious education is neither necessary nor possible, for a woman's reason is practical. She has a sense for details and not for principles. The faith of woman is belief in authority. As a girl she should have the religion of her mother, and as a wife the religion of her husband, and yet Rousseau believes (as he himself was practically governed by Madame de Warens) that woman has a natural talent for governing man. The rôle of the wife consists in her placidity, in her adaptiveness, in her obedience. Her orders consist in caresses, her threats in tears. She should dominate the house in the same way that the minister rules the State, that is to say, she must give a turn to the situation so that whatever she wants will be commanded. Rousseau happily did not speak the last word in matters of education. Professor Höffding rightly says: "Pestalozzi carried the work into the province where "Rousseau failed to accomplish anything. Moved by a zealous compassion for the "intellectual emergencies for the great mass of the people, he applied some of "Rousseau's educational principles to the popular schools. Through Pestalozzi "and Basedon, the pedagogical ideas of Rousseau were applied generally to the "educational methods of the succeeding generation. And thus," concludes Pro"'fessor Höffding, the well which Rousseau had dug contained a greater wealth "than he himself had hoped for." P. C. DYNAMIC SOCIOLOGY OR APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE. As Based Upon Statical Sociology and the Less Complex Sciences. By Lester F. Ward. Two Volumes. Second Edition. New York: A. Appleton & Co. 1897. Pages, 1432. Mr. Lester F. Ward is to be congratulated upon the appearance of the second edition of his Dynamic Sociology, a work whose merits are widely recognised and familiar to all students of sociology. He has incorporated in the Preface to the present edition a sketch of the interesting history and vicissitudes of his work which has been accorded the signal distinction of having been prohibited by the Russian censor and of having been burned in its Russian edition, not from any intrinsic heresy, so far as the author can see, but from the resemblance between its title and the word "dynamite," or most probably from its expression of liberal thought in politics and in education. First published in 1883, when the word "sociology" was rarely spoken, it has witnessed the rise of its science from dim obscurity to a plane where it has become one of the most popular and most widely cultivated branches of study. Mr. Ward's work is one of immense learning and great clearness of expression, and should find accordingly a wide circle of appreciative readers. μ. HERBERT SPENCER. Von Otto Gaupp. Frommanns Klassiker der Philosophie, V. Stuttgart. 1897. Fr. Frommanns Verlag. Price, M. 1.75. The author complains that the professional philosophers of Germany do not give to Mr. Herbert Spencer the place he deserves. He is known among them as the philosopher of the unknowable, not as the philosopher of evolution. Indeed there are many evolutionists in Germany who do not even know of the claims of Mr. Spencer's disciples that he was the first who universally applied the principles of evolution—a claim which can be made only by those who are utterly ignorant of the history of the idea of evolution and know nothing of Wolff, Lamarck, Treviranus, Karl von Baer, and the other pre-Darwinian evolutionists Herr Gaupp characterises Mr. Spencer as an ideal philosopher after his own fashion who hates the Treibhausmethoden (p. 14) of the German educational system, is unattentive and lazy at school (p. 13), yet grows up to be at least relatively ein kräftiger und gesunder Bursche. The main sources of the pamphlet are Spencer's own works and Mr. Youmans's writings on Spencer. The treatment is that of an admirer; popular but uncritical. κρς. LA FILOSOFIA Scientifica del Diritto IN INGHILTERRA. Part I., From Bacon to Hume. By Dr. Giacomo Laviosa. Turin: Carlo Clausen. 1897. Pp. 850. Price, 10 Lire. This volume contains an introductory chapter on the two currents of modern thought in ethico-juridical philosophy, namely, the Baconian and the Cartesian. The author accepts the Baconian method and proceeds to expound and criticise English philosophy in so far as it relates to his subject from Bacon to Hume, including Hobbes, Locke, Milton, Shaftesbury, Butler, Hutcheson, and Mandeville. The purpose of the book, as expressed by the author, is to make a modest contribution to the critical revision of English doctrines in regard to the scientific philosophy of law. Such a revision the author believes is necessary to establish a solid basis for the construction of the science. "The historical study of this series of authors "constitutes the best preparation for the critical study of the aggregate of ideas "which has resulted from their writings. This preparatory study forms the precise "object of the present work" (p. 95). The aim of the book is thus seen to be a worthy one. 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