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RS. WEBSTER'S book, The French Revolution, is already known to readers of the THEOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. Webster has now supplemented it by a second book, World Revolution, which takes up the same theme and brings it down to the present moment.

The main thesis in Mrs. Webster's first book, which is set forth anew in the work now under consideration, is, that one of the dominant factors in the French Revolution, perhaps the decisive factor, was the secret society called the "Illuminati", founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776; that the French Revolution was inspired and carried forward by the Illuminati with the deliberate purpose of working evil, of bringing to destruction all that is best in civilization. Of Adam Weishaupt, Mrs. Webster gives the following account:

"Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, was born on the 6th of February, 1748. His early training by the Jesuits had inspired him with a violent dislike for their Order, and he turned with eagerness to the subversive teaching of the French philosophers and the antiChristian doctrines of the Manicheans. It is said that he was also indoctrinated into Egyptian occultism by a certain merchant of unknown origin from Jutland, named Kölmer, who was travelling about Europe during the year 1771 in search of adepts. Weishaupt, who combined the practical German brain with the cunning of Machiavelli, spent no less than five years thinking out a plan by which all these ideas should