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London in English Literature. By Percy Holmes Boynton, Assistant 
Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago. 
358 pages, 8vo, cloth; $2.00, postpaid $2.17 
This volume differs from all other volumes on London in 
that it gives a consecutive illustrated account of London not from 
the point of view of the antiquarian but from that of the inquiring 
student of English literary history. 
It deals with ten consecutive periods, characterized in turn 
by the work and spirit of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, 
Addison, Johnson, Lamb, Dickens, and by the qualities of Vic- 
torian and contemporary London. ‘The emphasis is thus dis- 
tributed over history and given largely to the richer and more 
recent literary periods. The temper of each epoch is discussed, 
and then in particular those literary works which are intimately 
related to certain localities in London. 
The work contains four maps and forty-three other illustra- 
tions, selected from the best of a great fund of material. As 
further aids to the student or the general reader, the sources of 
all material are indicated by footnotes and lists of illustrative 
reading are appended to each chapter. There are also an 
appendix with detailed references to illustrative novels, and a 
carefully compiled index. 
Social Programmes in the West. (The Barrows Lectures.) By 
Charles Richmond Henderson, Head of the Department of 
Practical Sociology in the University of Chicago. 
: 212 pages, 8vo, cloth; $1.25, postpaid $1.38 
The Barrows Lectures (1912-13) delivered with so much 
success in the Far East by Professor Henderson are included 
in this volume, which is also published in India by the Macmillan 
Company. The subjects of the lectures are as follows: “F ounda- 
tions of Social Programmes in Economic Facts and in Social 
Ideals,”’ “Public and Private Relief of Dependents and Abnor- 
mals,” “Policy of the Western World in Relation to the Anti- 
Social,” “ Public Health, Education, and Morality,” ‘“‘ Movements 
to Improve the Economic and Cultural Situation of Wage- 
Earners,”’ and “Providing for Progress.’”’ The author, in his 
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