. Review of reviews and world's work. he termsweapons of privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, andcorruption in politics. The proposed remedy of allthese inequalities and wrongs, as one would naturallyinfer from Mr. Georges well-known predilections, is tobe found in the single tax. SCIENTIFIC WORKS. It is but seldom we come across a more charminglyset scientific .story than Professor N. S. Shalers Manand the Earth (Fox, Duffield). This book is a coherentstory, written by aneminent geologist whohas command of a fas-cinating English style,outlining the relationswhich have existedfrom prehist
. Review of reviews and world's work. he termsweapons of privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, andcorruption in politics. The proposed remedy of allthese inequalities and wrongs, as one would naturallyinfer from Mr. Georges well-known predilections, is tobe found in the single tax. SCIENTIFIC WORKS. It is but seldom we come across a more charminglyset scientific .story than Professor N. S. Shalers Manand the Earth (Fox, Duffield). This book is a coherentstory, written by aneminent geologist whohas command of a fas-cinating English style,outlining the relationswhich have existedfrom prehistoric agesbetween man and theplanet on which helives, particularly withreference to the mate-rial resources of theearth. The concludingchapters, particularlythe ones entitled TheFuture of NatureUpon the Earth,The Beauty of theEarth,and The Lastof Earth and Man, are absorbingly interesting. A remarkable work of more than four hundredpages, with many illustrations, on an astronomicalsubject, by a woman, is one of the noteworthy addi-. PKOFESSOR N. S. SHALER. tions to scientific literature which we have from Adamand Charles Black, of London, through the work, The System of the Stars, now in its secondedition, is by Agnes M. Gierke, author of History During the Nineteenth Century and Prob-lems in Astro-Physics. In the whole astonishinghistory of the human intellect, there is no more aston-ishing chapter than that concerned with the siderealresearches of the last half-century. This is the storythat Miss Gierke tells with scholarly ability. In his scientific treatise, liife and Matter (Put-nams). Sir Oliver Lodge replies to Professor HaeckelsRiddle of the Universe. The author acknowledgesthe German philosophers service to scientific thoughtin introducing Darwinism to Germany, and admitsthat to philosophically trained minds Haeckels writingscan do no harm. The English thinker, however, be-lieves that to the general reader Professor Haeckelsideas are inevita
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