. Review of reviews and world's work. ings andWomen and Things. They ai-e illustrated. ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICS. One timely books of the spring is a volumeentitled The Heart of the Railroad Problem, by Parsons (Boston : Little, Brown & Co.). Thisis a study of railroad discriminations as they are prac-tised in the LTnited States. Tlie author has closelyfollowed the revelations recently made before the In-terstate CommerceCommission, thecommittees of Con-gress, and investigat-ing committees of the States,and has incorporatedin his book the salientpoints in th
. Review of reviews and world's work. ings andWomen and Things. They ai-e illustrated. ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICS. One timely books of the spring is a volumeentitled The Heart of the Railroad Problem, by Parsons (Boston : Little, Brown & Co.). Thisis a study of railroad discriminations as they are prac-tised in the LTnited States. Tlie author has closelyfollowed the revelations recently made before the In-terstate CommerceCommission, thecommittees of Con-gress, and investigat-ing committees of the States,and has incorporatedin his book the salientpoints in this greatmass of Parsonshas not confined hisinvestigations to theUnited States, how-ever, but has traveledmuch in Europeancountries, and his PKOF. FRANK PARSONS. book COUtaluS HOt a few suggestive hintsfrom foreign experience as to remedies forAmerican evils. So carefully is his book edited upto the news of the day that it refers to the recent coal-carrying decision of the United States Supreme Court,. THE NEW BOOKS. 639 and deals with President Hadleys criticism of theHepburn bill, published in February, last. Prof. Iluyo Richard Meyers treatise on MunicipalOwnership in Great Britain (Macmillan) gives the re-sults of the authors of the actual workingof the public regulation and the government ownershipand operation of the railway, the telegraph, the streetrailway, the electric light, the electric-power plant, andthe telephone. Professor Meyers conclusions are dis-tinctly unfavorable to municipal ownership, and someof his observations would go to show that governmentcontrol of the so-called public-service industries forms areal obstacle to the progress of such undertakings. Dr. Murray S. SVildmans study of Money Inflationin the United States (Putnams) is mainly an analysisof those forces, both psychological and economic, whichhave brought about the cheai>money delusions of pastyears. It is an interesting fact that the success and ex-
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