92 Scientific Intelligence. 



This volume, in addition to the full explanatory text, mathemati- 

 cal theory, computations, graphs and original statistics, gives also 

 tables of United States life annuities, life tables for foreign coun- 

 tries and mortality tables of life insurance companies. The 

 scope of the work is, therefore, as wide as the subject itself; 

 Mr. Glover, who has had charge of it, is not only the expert 

 special agent of the Census Bureau but also professor of mathe- 

 matics and insurance in the University of Michigan. 



The tables show the rates of mortality and expectation of life 

 for all classes of people residing in the country. It is interesting 

 to note that the two decades from 1890 to 1910 show an improve- 

 ment in mortality conditions for men and women under 50 years, 

 while above that age conditions were stationary. Further women 

 rank much higher than men, persons living in the country higher 

 than those residing in cities, whites than negroes, and for most 

 ages the native born than those of foreign birth. 



The work is divided into eight parts, the first five being 

 designed for the general public, the remainder for the specialist. 

 Part I (pp. 23-49) carefully read will give the average reader 

 all the information ordinarily required, and enable him to con- 

 sult the many tables with intelligence. 



7. Public Opinion; by "Walter Lippmann. Pp. x, 427. New 

 York, 1922 (Harcourt,- Brace & Howe). — Mr. Lippmann 's 

 book falls into two parts, nearly equal in size. The first part is 

 mainly a study in psychology, as is indicated by its headings : 

 The world outside and the pictures in our heads, approaches to 

 the world outside, stereotypes, interests. The author, who was 

 graduated from Harvard in 1910, has kept alive the interests 

 developed under AVilliam James and others there, and applies his 

 analysis to the conditions, both individual and social, underlying 

 the formation of public opinion. In the latter part of the book 

 he follows his subject into the field of politics, taking as his main 

 topics : The making of a common will, The image of democracy, 

 Newspapers, Organized intelligence. 



The author has observed the action of the modern political sys- 

 tem, both from the outside as journalist, and from the inside as 

 a worker in practical politics, and, during the latter part of the 

 war, in the service of the government. He illustrates his mean- 

 ing with concrete examples from recent history, and so does much 

 to help the reader over the hard places in doctrine. The book is 

 interesting. It is, furthermore, important. The author makes a 

 determined effort to see things as they are, not as they have been 

 supposed to be. If he has not the experience of political sages 

 like Morley and Bryce he has a freedom from tradition, a fresh- 

 ness of imagination, and a vigor of attack which make his analy- 

 sis of present conditions well worth attention. He does not offer 

 a panacea for the ills of the time, but in his concluding chapters 

 he discusses in a sober and practical way some measures of 

 reform. His proposal, in brief, looks to a system in which 



