WHAT IS EUGENICS?

By MAJOK LEON-AKD DARWIN, with foreword from President James R. Angell of Yale University. Galton Publishing Company, New York. 1930.

Here is a thoroughly readable, concise and severely scientific exposition of eugenics. In seventeen chapters of from three to five pages each, the author has given a most lucid presentation to this difficult subject, a presentation which appeals to the general reader. The latter will be drawn to the perusal of such subjects as the kind of men we want; who pays the bill? (because of the presence in modern society of a rather large percentage of people who seem unable to fit into presentday social demands); bigger families in good stocks; eugenic methods; eugenics in the future; selection in marriage; the problems involved in the facts of the differential birthrate; etc. A subtly accurate logic pervades the whole of this little book of eighty-eight pages as well as the highly desirable mental qualities of moderation and forcefulness. The problems here treated are sure to demand increasing attention from the thinkers and readers of mankind.

Department of Sociology.