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further advancement and hasten premature old-age 

 and death in the individual of the race or specie. In 

 other words the underlying thesis of this booklet 

 is an antithesis to the principle that in the embryo- 

 logical development and even in infancy the indi- 

 vidual repeats, to some extent, the evolutionary 

 history of the race. 



The development of this theme leads to 

 many entertaining ideas. The temptation 

 ,to quote is great but we have space for 

 only one sample: "And who is to blame 

 for this increasing feminization of modern 

 western societies, following the course of 

 ancient societies in that respect? .... 

 Man is to blame. He is almost wholly to 

 blame. The proof is very simple. Even 

 in these degenerate days our average 

 modern she-man possesses a greater degree 

 of sensitiveness than the average modern 

 he-woman. 



JINGO. 



By John Veiby. John Veiby 



$1.00 South Bend, hid. 



5 x i\ ; 157 (paper) 

 The object of this book is "to create 

 interest in a national religion." And it 

 is some religion! The women's head- 

 quarters are to be called Jingo Inns, each 

 with a wise old woman to whom the 

 young girls tell their troubles and are 

 advised as to how to get out of them. A 

 feast of sorrow may be instituted, which 

 would resemble that of the ancient women 

 weeping for the lost Adonis. The head- 

 quarters for the men are to be called 

 Jingo Taverns. They will be like the old- 

 fashioned saloons — "pleasant places of 

 rest and recreation." The Jingo Sabbath 

 is to be on Saturday and is to be started 

 by taking a bath, then putting on special 

 garments, and going to bed. "What 

 happens after this, we do not know, and 

 should not know. ' ' But sleep will be one 

 of the things. "There must be guardians 



around the precincts of Jingo during the 

 observance of the Sabbath, whose duty it 

 would be to keep away disturbers of the 

 peace, and also to wake up or call to order 

 those within, if they should be visited by 

 evil dreams or a nightmare, in short, see 

 to it that the observance goes on peace- 

 fully, free and happy." 



We recommend Jingo to our readers. 

 There are few ways known to us to get 

 more fun for a dollar. 



LE RETOUR ETERNEL ET LA PHILO- 

 SOPHIE DE LA PHYSIQUE. 



By Abel Key. Ernest Elammarion 



iz francs 4! x -j\; 3x0 (paper) Paris 



This volume, which appears in the 

 Bibliotheque de Philosophie scientific, is a 

 detailed and scholarly discussion of the 

 philosophical significance of modern ther- 

 modynamics and the kinetic theory of 

 gases. The final position reached is that 

 of Spinoza: "Sentimus et experimur nos 

 aeternos esse." 



MEDICAL PALMISTRY or The Hand in 



Health and Disease. 



By Katharine St. Hill. Rider and Company 

 7s. 6d. 6 x 9; ix + 13Z London 



This is the second volume of "The Book 

 of the Hand. " It is great stuff, considered 

 as one more document to add to that large 

 collection of treatises which evidence the 

 odd ways in which the mind' of Homo 

 sapiens sometimes works. The authoress 

 at the start enters a general disclaimer in 

 this form: "apart from the hand I know 

 but little of my subject." Every medical 

 man who reads the book will agree. At 

 the same time such a statement, which is 

 reiterated on many pages of the book, does 

 testify to real intellectual honesty. And 



