2/4 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

Principes de morale sociale. Par Louis DESCHAMPS. Paris : Felix

Alcan, 1903. Pp. 269. Fr. 3.50.

THE theme of this book is the social necessity of Christianity, and particularly of Catholicism. It makes much of the outworn philo- sophic antithesis between materialism and spiritualism, and is, although fortified with a brief bibliography of recent French works, conspicu-

ously valueless as a contribution to the scientific study of social ethics.