7 OCTOBER 1911, Page 13

We have received another volume of Descriptive Sociology by Herbert

Spencer, Edited by Henry Tedder. (Williams and

Norgate. 3s.) This volume is devoted to "Chinese," and the compilation and arrangement are the work of Mr. E. T. C. Warner, who is British Consul at Foochow. We may briefly recall the ' circumstances in which this great work is appearing. Mr. Herbert Spencer began in his lifetime the publication of "Sociological Facts Classified and Arranged," but found the expense, resulting from inadequate support from the purchasing public, too much for his means. This difficulty has been over- come so far as publication is concerned ; but it is important that the sales should be adequate. We need hardly say that the volumes, in their special lines, are complete and trustworthy books of reference.