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It is Professor Coser's thesis that the con- duced by brief essays; there are eighty-nine
temporary emphasis, in social and political pages of bibliographical notes.
analysis, on adjustment, order, and equilib-
rium has obscured the important positive American Men of Science: A Biographical
functions of conflict in the life of societies. Directory. Volume III. The Social & Be-
This is not a restatement of social Darwinism, havioral Sciences. EDITED BY JACQUES
but a careful attempt, based primarily on the CATTELL. (New York: R. R. Bowker Com-
work of Simmel, to indicate the full range of pany. 1956. Pp. xiii, 762. $20.00.)
the influences of conflict. The book is not itself In addition to thefieldsof psychology, geog-
an analysis of the conditions under which raphy, and anthropology covered in earlier
conflict has its various results. There are illus-
editions, this volume of the ninth edition of
trations, but no empirical tests of the proposi- American Men of Science includes, for the first
tions that are described. The value of the book time, other fields of the social sciences. At a
is its cogent demonstration that students of time when political scientists are increasingly
law, of government, of society need to make a aware of their relationships with scholars work-
larger place for the analysis of conflict. ing in other disciplines, this comprehensive
directory is particularly welcome. Many
political scientists will regret the omission of
Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present.the historians from this volume; but the
BY WILLIAM EBBNSTEIN. (New York:
preface promises that this gap will be filled by
Rinehart and Company. 2nd ed. 1956. Pp. the third edition of the Directory of American
xx, 940. $7.50.) Scholars, to be published soon. It should also
This second edition of a book published in be noted that this volume will not take the
1951 contains the material included in the first place of a new edition of the Directory of the
edition plus an additional chapter on "The American Political Science Association, since
Welfare State," which contains excerpts from many of the younger political scientists are not
F. D. Roosevelt, H. Hoover, R. Pound, and included. Nevertheless, this is an invaluable
A. C. Pigou. Well selected excerpts are intro- reference book.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS ON

POLITICAL THEORY
CECELIA M. KENYON
Smith College

History and Criticism former. The Virginia Quarterly Review. Au-

Bousquet, G. H. Max Stirner (1806-1850). tumn, 1956.
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XXXIV, No. 1,1956. Maistre. Cahier d'Histoire. No. 3,1956.
Burns, J. H. The Political Ideas of the Scot- Einaudi, Luigi. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, les
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tish Reformation. Aberdeen University Re- theories de la volonte generate et du parti-
view. Spring, 1956. guide et les taches des universitaire. Kyklos.
Cassell, Robert. Newton Cannon and the IX/3, 1956.
Constitutional Convention of 1834. Tennessee Fueyo, Jesus. Tomas Moro y el utopismo
Historical Quarterly. September, 1956. politico. Revista de Estudios Politicos. Marzo-
Chakrabarti, Raghubir. Hobhouse on the Junio, 1956.
Nature of the State. The Calcutta Review. Grattan, C. H. Colin Clark: A Conservative
October, 1956. as Radical. The Antioch Review. September,
Dante, H. L. Western Attitudes and Recon- 1956.
struction Politics in Illinois, 1865-1872. Jour- Gummere, R. M. John Dickinson, the
nal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Sum-Classical Penman of the Revolution. The Clas-
mer, 1956. sical Journal. November, 1956.
Dimock, M. E. Wilson the Domestic Re- Gummere, R. M. John Wise, A Classical