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any rate, if there are those who " save their face " by resort to an 

 ordinary scientific habit, namely, that of distinguisliing different 

 conceptions by different names, there are certainly those who 

 may be in danger of losing their reputation for scientific acumen 

 by seeing only one phenomenon where two in reality exist. 



However, apart from these polemics, which are inevitable in 

 all new forward movements, there is much, indeed the greater 

 part of the volume, which is of more peaceful interest to all who 

 would know something of the great controversy which began 

 fifty years ago and of the works of the eminent man, out of and 

 around which, the conflict arose and centred. For those 

 of this generation, the battle is practically over, and the fight 

 for intellectual emancipation has ceased. But how that battle 

 began, how it was fought, who were its great leaders, who the 

 faithful and unfaltering, who the doubtful and seceders, and 

 how the great victory was finally attained, and at what cost, 

 are questions of abiding interest that must appeal afresh to every 

 succeeding generation. In the pages of Professor Poulton's 

 book, once more the gTeat controversy is unfolded before our 

 eyes, and we can almost feel again its pathos and its tragedy, 

 but yet too, we feel the glory and the thrill of battle, and rejoice 

 in the conquest which the great leaders won for all who shall 

 succeed them. 



Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty.— By Frederick 



Adams Wood, M.D., Lecturer in the Biological Defartment 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; late Instructor 

 in Histology and Embryology in the Harvard Medical 

 School. With One Hundred and Four Portraits. Henry 

 Holt d Co., Neiv York. 



Or all subjects that deserve treatment by scientific methods we 

 may, perhaps, regard History as having a paramount claim. So 

 great is the influence of the events which it is its especial function 

 to record, and so important to the welfare of mankind is a correct 

 appreciation and interpretation of its facts, that not only is 

 no apology needed for an attempt to deal with History by right 

 methods, but it is a matter of surprise that no attempt to deal 

 with the subject on anything hke scientific principles was made 

 until John Richard Green pubhshed his " History of the Enghsh 

 People " in 1888. It is perhaps a matter of significant value as 

 showing how great things are done from inner promptings, and 

 not from extraneous sources — be they designated educational or 

 otherwise — that with Green, the historian, " the study of history 

 was with him never a matter of classes and fellowships, nor was 



