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William Isaac Thomas. "Review of Litterature and Criminalie by Scipio Sighele." American Journal of Sociology 14 (1908): 127

Review of Litterature et Criminalité

Littérature et Criminalité. By Scipio SIGHELE. Translated from the Italian by ERICK ADLER. Preface by JULES CLARETIE. (Vol. XXXVII de la Bibliothéque Sociologique Internationale.) Paris:V. Giard & E. Brière, 1908. Pp. vi+219. Fr. 4.

This volume is an important contribution on the relation of crime to literature. The same point of view is not maintained throughout and the subject-matter might well be treated in two separate volumes. The first part is a study of modern novelists and poets (such as d'Annunzio, Zola, and Eugène Sue) from the point of view of psychiatry and criminal anthropology, and the second part is a study of the effect of literature in producing crime.

Wm. I. THOMAS
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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