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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. I34 ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. I34 ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. of pre-Christian religions to show that "in all races and ages there were revelations of God to individuals, and in the constitution of mind and the world, so that truths were uttered and principles taught and lived upon similar to those of Christ." In an earlier book Mr. Brace described "The Dangerous Classes of New York," speaking, from twenty years of experience, as an authority on efforts in charity, reform and education. The qualities which especially fitted Mr. Brace for his work were sympathy and capacity for friendship. His nature was open, receptive. Before he began his life-work, in a letter to a friend he wrote: " I hold myself more fit for friendship than ever before, even with the unworthy." It was this fitness for friendship that knit him close to those with whom he came in contact in whatever land, or of whatever creed. the formulation of a comprehensive theory of rates, and not the question of public or private ownership that lies at the basis of the transportation problem. The book is thoroughly suggestive. The author attempts only to state and analyze the problems of transportation, and not to solve them. His conclusions are conservative, and for that reason of real value. The absence of all pretence of stating a panacea for railway troubles, gives the work genuine scientific merit. This first earnest attempt of an American economist to discuss transportation from an economic standpoint gives promise that our transportation literature will be of greater value in the future than it has been in the past. The subject of transportation has been studied too much as a technical, and too seldom as an economic problem. This monograph is cast in the right mould. EMORY R. JOHNSON. Three Months in a Workshop : a Practical Study. By PAUL GOHRE,