November, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS XVii 
HEREDITY AND Eucenics. A Course of 
Lectures Summarizing Recent Advances 
in Knowledge in Variation, Heredity and 
Evolution and its Relation to Plant, 
Animal and Human Improvement and 
Welfare. By William Ernest Castle, 
John Merle Coulter, Charles Benedict 
Davenport, Edward Murray East, and 
William Lawrence Tower, Chicago: The 
University of Chicago Press, 1912. 8vo.; 
515 pp. 
The lectures of which this book is com- 
posed were given at the University of Chi- 
cago in 1911, under the auspices of the Bio- 
logical Department. The purpose was to 
present the recent developments of knowl- 
edge in reference to variation, heredity and 
evolution, and the application of this new 
knowledge in plant, animal and human de- 
velopment and improvement. Anyone at all 
familiar with the subject must recognize 
that the men who delivered these lectures 
stand foremost among American students 
of evolution and heredity. Couched, on the 
whole, in an easily understood style, the 
lectures in book form will appeal to a wide 
audience interested in the progress of gene- 
tics as a matter of information as well as 
of study. 
LEGENDs OF INDIAN BuppuismM. By Wini- 
fred Stephens. New York: E. P. Dut- 
ton & Co, 1911. Cloth; i6mo.: 128 
pages. Price, 60 cents net. 
In the number of its adherents and in 
the area of its prevalence, Buddhism sur- 
passes any other creed; and its existence 
through twenty-four centuries entitles it to 
historical consideration at least by reason 
of its being one of the most venerable forms 
of belief extant. For this reason the vol- 
ume on “Legends of Indian Buddhism’ 
should find the many appreciative readers it 
deserves. 
RECONSTRUCTION AND Union. 1865-1912. 
By Paul Leland Haworth, Ph.D. New 
York: Henry Holt & Co., 1912. 16mo.; 
255 pp. Price, 50 cents net. 
Prof. Haworth has a trick of writing his- 
tory with journalistic crispness and vigor, 
and the most exacting reader could hardly 
call his story of reconstruction dull. He 
really transmits a very sharp impression of 
actual conditions at the close of the war, 
of the efforts made to deal with the prob- 
lems left in the wake of that war, and of 
subsequent puzzles and responsibilities aris- 
ing from the war with Spain and the ac- 
quisition of the Philippines. He has also 
something to say of the “golden age of 
materialism,’ and he outlines the revolt 
against plutocracy which brings us to the 
present year of the Republic. 
THE WiptH AND ARRANGEMENT OF 
STREETS. A Study in Town Planning. 
By Charles Mulford Robinson. New 
York: The Engineering News Pub- 
lishing Company, 1911. 8vo.; 199 pp.; 
illustrated. Price, $2 net. 
The author has been a close student of 
town planning, and has had exceptional fa- 
cilities for observation and the interchange 
of ideas, both here and in Europe. He is 
not an illogical extremist, either from the 
artistic or the utilitarian point of view; he 
does not, for example, unqualifiedly endorse 
the standardization of thoroughfares. Pri- 
vate interest has been given its share of 
consideration together with public welfare. 
The problem of transportation is treated 
with the respect due to its gravity. In short, 
the writer seems to have overlooked few of 
the factors necessary to the wise planning 
and artistic treatment of the city lay-out. 
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