Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology

28. — The Social Evil. With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York. A Report Prepared in 1902 under the Direction of the Committee of Fifteen. Second Edition, Revised, with New Material Covering the Years 1902-1911. Edited by EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, LL.D., McVickar Professor of Political Economy in Columbia University. 8vo. $1.75 net. A study that is far from being of merely local interest and application. The problem is considered in all its aspects and, for this purpose, reference has been made to conditions prevailing in other communities and to the different attempts foreign cities have made to regulate vice.

ag. — Microbes and Toxins. By ETIKNNE BURNF.T, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris. With an Introduction by I'-H'1 Mi'tchnikofF, Sub-Dinvtor of tlie Pasteur Jnstil.ute, Paris. With about 71 Illustrations. S :?.<«> n.-t. A well-known Fni'lish authority said in recommending the volume: "Incom- paraMv the ln-.t 1" " >k there is on this tremendously important subject. In fact, I am assured that nothing exists which rives anything like so full a study of microbiology."

In I' ic volume are cons Mi-red the :;i- in -r.il functions of mii-rolie-., 1 he microlies of the :n s'-stem, the form and structure of microbes, the physiology of microbes, the c protozoa, toxins, tuberculin and mullein, immunity, applications of bacteriology, vaccines and serums, chemical remedies, etc. 30. — Problems of Life and Reproduction. By MARCUS HARTOG, D. Sc., Professor of Zoology in University College, Cork. 8vo. $2.50 Het. The author uses all the legitimate arms of scientific controversy in assailing certain views that have been widely pressed on the general public with an assurance that must have given many the impression that they were protected by the universal COM i-nsus of bic 1 i'-i;ts. Among the subjects considered are: "The Cellular Pedi- gn :md the Problem of Heredity"; "The Relation of Brood-Formation to Ordinary Cell- Di vision"; "The New Force, Mitokinctism "; "Nuclear Reduction and the Function of Chroism";" Fertilization"; "The Transmission of Acquired Characters"; ''Mechanism and Life"; "The Biological Writings of Samuel Butler"; "Interpola- tion in Memory"; "The Teaching of Nature Study."

31. — Problems of the Sexes. By JEAN FINOT, Author of "The Science A masterly presentation of the attitude of the ages toward women and an elo- quent plea for her further enfranchisement from imposed and unnatural limitations. The range of scholarship that has been enlisted in the writing may well excite one's <-r, but the tone of the book is popular and its appeal is not to any small section of t!:i; reading public but to all the classes and degrees of an age that, from present indications, will go down in history as the century of Woman.

32. — The Positive Evolution of Religion. Its Moral and Social Re- action. By FREDERIC HARRISON. 8vo. $2.00 net. The author has undertaken to estimate the moral and social reaction of various forms of Religion — beginning with Nature Worship, Polytheism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Deism. The volume may be looked upon as the final word, the summary of the celebrated author's philosophy — a systematic study of the entire religious problem. 33. — The Science of Happiness. By JEAN FINOT, Author of "Prob- lems of the Sexes, " etc. Translated from the French by Mary J. SafTord. 8°. $1.75 net.

In this work, which was crowned by the Academy, the author considers a subject, the solution of which offers more enticement to the well-wisher of the race than the gold of the Incas did to the treasure-seekers of Spain, who themselves doubtless looked upon the coveted yellow metal, however mistakenly, as a key to the happiness which all are trying to find. "Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man," remarks M. Finot, "the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls." The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied questions.

34 — Genetic Theory of Reality. Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in the ^Esthetic Theory of Reality Called Pancalism. By JAMES MARK BALDWIN, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., Foreign Corre- spondent of the Institute of France, Author of " History of Psycho- logy," etc. The author here states the general results of the extended studies in genetic and social science and anthropology made by him and others, and gives a critical account of the history of the interpretation of nature and man, both r.u-ial and philosophical.

The book offers an Introduction to Philosophy from a new point of view. It contains, also, a valuable glossary of the terms employed in these and similar discussions. 35— Mosquito Control in Panama The Eradication of Malaria and Yellow Fever in Cuba and Panama. By J. A. Lie PRINCE, C.E., A. M., Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission. 1904- I9H, an 1 A. J. OREXSTEIN, M.D., Assistant Chief Sanitary Inspec- tor, Isthmian Canal Commission. With an introdurtio.i by L. O. HOWARD, Ph.D., Entomologist and Chief, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 8°. 95 illustrations.

Mr. Le Prince's books will be not only of great practical importance as a guide to future work of the same character, especially in the Tropics, but also of permanent historic value.