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. 
The Springfield Republican. It would seem as if Mr. Boynton’s book 
would make strong appeal to everybody who has been in London, and 
a good many more who would like to go there; .... he has caught 
its spirit and presented it here. 
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: “‘ Founda- 
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 
preface, says that ‘‘the necessity of selecting elements from the 
social activities of Europe and America which might have value 
in the Orient under widely different conditions, compelled a 
consideration of the materials from a new point of view.” The 
introduction includes, besides a syllabus of the six lectures, the 
Letter of Commission from the officers of the three great inter- 
national associations for labor legislation, asking the lecturer to 
present their aims wherever it was possible in India, China, and 
Japan. There is also included a statement by Professor E. Fuster, 
of Paris, of the aims of the international associations on social 
legislation. 
Boston Transcript. The lectures will be of value to American readers in 
that they concisely place before them the social problem in its most 
fundamental aspects. 
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