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scribed with enthusiasm, and her subsequent 

 experiences as teacher in eleven schools, end- 

 ing as Dean of the Woman's College at 

 Evanston, are vividly given with interesting 

 details. Miss Willard was by nature, howev- 

 er, neither a student nor a teacher. Routine 

 was distasteful to her, and patient interro- 

 gation of Nature or life was foreign to her 

 restless disposition. The opportunity for 

 extensive travel with a friend accorded with 

 her desires, and two years were spent abroad 

 journeying over Europe, Syria, and Egypt. 

 Shortly after her return she was invited to 

 lecture upon her foreign gleanings, and soon 

 drifted into public speaking. The latter and 

 larger half of the book is devoted to the or- 

 ganization of the W. C. T. U., temperance 

 talks, political speeches, reports of conven- 

 tions, eulogies of men and women, and dis- 

 sertations on problems social, industrial, and 

 sanitary. It is to be regretted that these 

 questions are too exacting and tumultuous 

 to be satisfactorily laid to rest. It may be 

 that the failure to give approximate solu- 

 tions is connected with the mathematical 

 inability which troubled Miss Willard as a 

 teacher, and which is very conspicuous in the 

 arrangement of her book. Her logical hori- 

 zon is indicated by the following estimate of 

 " one of the kings of the nineteenth century " : 

 "Meeting the skepticism of science with its 

 own ' scientific method,' he proves that, if a 

 man die, he shall live again ! " But it must 

 be remembered that we are told, in the in- 

 troduction to this encyclopedic volume, that 

 it is " a home book, written for her great 

 family circle, to be read around the evening 

 lamp by critics who love the writer, and who 

 want to learn from her experience how to 

 live better and stronger lives." This indul- 

 gent jury of half a million readers will doubt- 

 less render a verdict of unanimous praise, but 

 an even larger audience may be unexpectedly 

 entertained by this life-story, and find it 

 worthily called " an object-lesson in Ameri- 

 can living." 



The Student's Atlas. By Richard A. 

 Proctor. London and New York : Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. Price, $1.50. 



In this little work, which was issued just 

 before Prof. Proctor's death last year, the 

 originality of its author is strongly evident. 

 In most atlases, the different divisions of 



the earth are represented on different scales 

 and often on different projections, so that 

 the ideas they convey as to the shape and 

 relative positions of the various land areas 

 are far from correct. The oceans generally 

 are not mapped at all, so no idea is given of 

 the tracks of vessels across them, nor of 

 the directions from each other of different 

 parts of their shores. Prof. Proctor has 

 avoided these defects in his atlas by depict- 

 ing the whole surface of the globe on twelve 

 maps, each representing the part of the sur- 

 face of a sphere corresponding to one side 

 of an inclosed dodecahedron. The maps 

 are all on one scale and a uniform projec- 

 tion, and each occupies a double octavo page. 

 There are also two index maps, which show 

 the connection between the maps of the 

 series. A brief description of each map is 

 given in the introduction, and on the pages 

 between the maps, usually left blank, Prof. 

 Proctor gives the number and chief contents 

 of the map on the other side of the leaf. 



The Economic Basis op Protection. By 

 Simon N. Patten, Ph. D. Philadelphia : 

 J. B. Lippincott Company. Pp. 144. 

 Price, $1. 



We have wondered why some adherent 

 of protection did not get out a book of this 

 sort ; for, in view of the pronounced tend- 

 ency of free-traders to base their creed on 

 fundamental principles, the neglect of pro- 

 tectionists to do the same looks like a con- 

 fession that protection has no principles on 

 which to stand. But now Prof. Patten has 

 undertaken to give briefly the reasons for 

 the faith that is in him. He asserts that 

 free-traders take as their ideal a society in a 

 " static " condition, while for a society in a 

 "dynamic" or progressive state, which is 

 the actual condition of America, protection 

 is the only admissible policy. He maintains 

 that a locality should not be encouraged to 

 devote itself to the exclusive production of 

 the commodity which it can yield best, be- 

 cause the surplus must pay the cost of long 

 transportation to a market. A variety of 

 things should be produced, and only such 

 quantities of each as can be consumed in 

 the vicinity. Although not so large a gross 

 result could be obtained in this way as by 

 devoting the productive power of the com- 

 munity to a specialty, the author evidently 



