and more recently by the psychoanalysts. However, the researches of these men have been directed almost entirely to an understanding of the maladies of personality and to the mental conflicts, repressions, and so on that influence the development of the personality, while the objective aspects of personality and the character problems of normal human beings remain almost wholly unexplored by the scientific student of human nature. It is gratifying, therefore, to find such a book as Ernest R. Groves' Personality and Social Adjustment (Longmans, 1923) which attempts in a simple, attractive style to touch the fringes of the tremenduous realm of normal human conduct from the viewpoint of a sociologist.

Professor Groves has little original contribution to make to “the new understanding of human conduct" but he has rendered a service to parents and teachers and other people who are interested in children-developing personalities-by blazing a trail-to use his expression-through the maze of material that has accumulated out of the researches that have been made. The author presents a valuable bibliography for the guidance of readers who wish to investigate farther into the rapidly growing science of human nature.

W. E. G.

To those to whom Fascismo and its living incarnation, Benito Mussolini, represent an anomalous phenomenon in Italian affairs, the work of Barone di San Severino on Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (E. P. Dutton & Company) will be most illuminating. One does not have to go far into the ringing speeches of this leader of the new Italian nationalism to note wherein lies his remarkable power of carrying his audiences, of whatever character, with him. First there is a picture of Mussolini the "Socialist" after his expulsion from the party following the outbreak of the war in 1914, then a series of glimpses of him as the militant partizan of Italian intervention, the wounded hero of the Carso, arousing the war-wearied masses after the disaster of Caporetto, as the leader of Fascismo in its uphill struggle for power, and finally as the universally acclaimed savior of a resurgent Italy from the nefarious influences of unrest and threatened social revolution. One need not agree with the views of forcefully profounded to feel even in the cold type of the printed page the warmth and ardor of the devotion of Mussolini to the Italy that is yet to be. The speeches cover virtually every phase of foreign and domestic policy; they also throw a clear light on the scope of Fascismo's appeal to the Italian populace. The following extract is indicative:

"Democracy has taken 'elegance' from the lives of the people, but Fascismo brings it back; that is to say, it brings back color, force, picturesqueness, the unexpected, mysticism, and in fact all that counts in the souls of the multitude. We play upon every chord of the lyre, from violence to religion, from art to politics. We are politicians and we are warriors. We are syndicalists and we also fight battles in the streets and the squares. That is Fascismo as it was conceived at Milan and as it was and is realized." (168.)

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