. Review of reviews and world's work. ifornia byDr. de Vries (who, it will be remembered, holds thechair of botany in the University of Amsterdam), havebeen edited by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the De-partment of Botanical Research at the Carnegie Insti-tution in Washington. Some months ago (in Septem-ber, last), in ottr Leading Articles of the Monthdepartment, an exposition of Professor de Vries viewswas given. This volume elaborates the thesis there laid down. The work will^ probably remain amonumental contri-bution to the modernliterature on the de-velopment of Darwin-ism, with partic
. Review of reviews and world's work. ifornia byDr. de Vries (who, it will be remembered, holds thechair of botany in the University of Amsterdam), havebeen edited by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the De-partment of Botanical Research at the Carnegie Insti-tution in Washington. Some months ago (in Septem-ber, last), in ottr Leading Articles of the Monthdepartment, an exposition of Professor de Vries viewswas given. This volume elaborates the thesis there laid down. The work will^ probably remain amonumental contri-bution to the modernliterature on the de-velopment of Darwin-ism, with particularapplication to the veg-etable kingdom. Anexcellent portrait ofProfessor de Vries isthe frontispiece of theTiresent edition. A comprehensivestudy of Mental andMoral Heredity inRoyalty (Holt) is theresult of Dr. Fred-erick Adams Woodsstatistical analysis of the breeding of kings in Eu-rope. Dr. Woods is lecturer in biology in the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. In this study,which is largely statistical and diagrammatic, be. IKEDERTCK ADAMS WOODS. 640 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REKIEIV OF REyiElVS. has considered all the ancestors of the present Kingof England, on both sides, for four generations, theirdescendants, their wives and ancestors in every direc-tion, and graded these, according to the opinions ofhistorians and biographers, into ten grades of intelli-gence and morality. He thus treats 832 persons, con-nected with all the royal houses of Europe, consideringaltogether, directly and indirectly, more than 3,000 per-sons. His general verdict on the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is that it is the cleanest and best pedigree to hefound in all royalty, and its influence on European his-tory has come to be very great, since its very merits haveentitled it to several thrones. The volume is illus-trated with many portraits. DISCUSSIONS OF RELIGION. Dr. Otto Pfleiderers Christian Origins, a series ofpublic lectures delivered at the University of Berlin,has been translated by Dr.
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