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seum at Copenhagen was selected, and 

 the portrait is here reproduced. 



There is of course room for criticism 

 even of this excellent book. If an edi- 

 tor could be found in each country 

 who would revise the data with a view 

 to uniformity, some substantial gain 

 would result. The data obtained from 

 the separate institutions are not always 

 comparable. Thus for some American 



DR. SOPHUS MiJLLER. 



institutions both professors and in- 

 structors are included, for others the 

 professors only. In the German uni- 

 versities the names are arranged under 

 faculties by seniority, but it is im- 

 possible to discover what plan has been 

 followed in some American institutions. 

 Professor Wolcott Gibbs, the dean of 

 Harvard professors and of American 

 men of science, and Professor Charles 

 Eliot Norton are omitted from the Har- 

 vard list, though emeritus professors 

 are included in other institutions. 

 Sometimes the names are given in full 

 and sometimes they are abbreviated 

 without any apparent system, the 

 names not being printed as they should 

 be written — Th. may be used for T, 

 Will, for William or W. etc. The in- 



clusion of institutions is not consistent. 

 Thus the Philadelphia High School is 

 admitted, but not the College of the 

 City of New York. The Armour and 

 Rensselaer Technological Institutes are 

 admitted, but not the Stevens and 

 Worcester Institutes. The Philadel- 

 phia Zoological Garden and the St. 

 Louis Botanical Garden are admitted, 

 but not the similar institutions of New 

 York, etc. The statistics are not uni- 

 form. Thus Columbia is given as the 

 largest American university, followed 

 by Chicago and California. Cairo, Buda- 

 pest, Moscow, Madrid and Naples are 

 in the list of the nine largest univer- 

 sities of the world. 



A German ' Who's Who ' will be of 

 much service both there and here. A 

 French ' Dictionnaire des Contempor- 

 ains,' which is unfortunately now 

 twelve years out of date has been is- 

 sued, but no similar book had been com- 

 piled for Germany. We regret, how- 

 ever, to say that ' Wer Ist's ' ( H. A. L. 

 Degener, Leipzig), is an example of 

 bad editing. The introduction is amu- 

 singly pretentious. We are told that 

 the work will' contribute to ' einer 

 grossen deutschen Friedensweltmacht ' 

 and much more to the same effect. 

 Such a book should not attempt to be 

 international in character. It is im- 

 possible to guess how the American 

 names were selected. ' Rooseveld ' in- 

 deed will be found, who organized 

 ' Rauhen Reiter ' and wrote about 'das 

 rastlose Leben,' but not Mr. Cleveland. 

 'Murray N. Butler, L.L.D.,' of Co- 

 lumbia University, is there, but not 

 President Eliot, of Harvard University. 

 Numerous Americans are included for 

 no evident reason, but not men such as 

 Mr. Carl Schurz, Mr. Andrew D. White 

 or Mr. Charlemagne Tower, whose rela- 

 tions with Germany are intimate. In 

 one short sketch there are fourteen 

 typographical errors. When the edi- 

 tor says that the subjects of the foreign 

 sketches are contemporaries ' iiber die 

 wir so gut wie Nichts wissen,' it may 

 be assumed that the editorial ' we ' was 

 not intended, but it would have a cer- 



