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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



GALLIO or The Tyranny of Science. 

 By J. W. N. Sullivan. E. P. Button and Co. 

 $1.00 4^ x 5I; 57 New York 



Another addition to the now numerous 

 members of the To-day and Tomorrow 

 Series, initiated by J. B. S. Haldane's 

 Daedalus. The first volume was a delight- 

 ful excursion of the imagination into the 

 realms of the seemingly possible. The 

 later ones are more concerned with the 

 present, and particularly the evils thereof. 

 This one is an earnest protest against that 

 "materialistic" science born in the 

 Victorian age which imposed a picture of 

 purposelessness, governed by hard immut- 

 able law, as a complete description of the 

 universe. It was an unwarranted pre- 

 sumption, because really science deals with 

 abstractions that have to do only with a 

 limited part of the universe, and fails to 

 reach such truth as is gleaned by poets, 

 mystics and musicians. The fact is com- 

 ing out now in the newer developments of 

 science and scientific philosophy. Scien- 

 tists in high standing are admitting the 

 inadequacy of materialistic concepts. 



This thesis, as presented, is not convinc- 

 ing, but much that is said en passant about 

 the limitations of the scientist as a person 

 will be recognized as justified by those 

 who know him in the flesh. 



THE EVIL RELIGION DOES. 

 By Morrison I. Swift. The Liberty Press 



$i.oo 5^x7!; in Boston 



Morrison I. Swift dislikes Sabbatari- 

 anism (p. 5), pacifism (p. 17), militarism 

 (p. 17), Christianity Qpassim), Chinese 

 immigration (p. 19 et seq.), trusting in 

 God (p. x6), Jews Qpassitfi), monopolists 

 (p. 38), Zionists (p. 43), rabbis (p. 54), 

 Jesus (p. 57), God (p. 58), priests (p. 60), 

 Fundamentalists (p. 5Z), Modernists (p. 



62.), Catholics (p. 65), parochial schools 

 (p. 80), Protestantism (p. 89), Roger 

 Babson, (p. 93), social inequality (p. 95), 

 conscientious objectors (p. 101), Christian 

 Science (p. 104), and lawyers (p. 105). 

 We have possibly missed one or two. The 

 book is a savage attack on all these, but 

 primarily on religion. We doubt, how- 

 ever, that it will cause many church- 

 memberships to lapse. 



THE RISE OF MODERN PHYSICS. A 



Popular Sketch. 

 By Henry Crew. 



The Williams & Wilkins Co. 

 $5.00 5 x 7 J; xv + 356 Baltimore 



A short history of physics, written for 

 the laity. Some of the more recent 

 developments are omitted — relativity, for 

 example — but most of the important 

 parts of the subject are brought reasonably 

 up to date. The mathematics of the 

 subject is reduced to such a point that 

 one wonders why the few differential 

 equations which appear — without any 

 apparent reason — were not omitted alto- 

 gether. 



There is a three page bibliography, and 

 references in the text to primary or 

 secondary sources for the various subjects 

 treated. Altogether a useful book for its 

 intended purpose. 



THE TURNING POINT. 

 By Richard J '. Flanagan. 



Perry and Elliott Co. 

 5 x 7! ; 54 (paper) Boston 



The author's final conclusions are: 



Disease is an external evidence of internal unclean- 

 liness. 



Internal uncleanliness and disease are the same. 



