Stephens, ALEX. H. Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States. Phila., Nat. Pub. Co., 1868-70. 2 v. 8°, $5.50.

Author was Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy.

Sterne, SIMON. Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States. New and rev. ed. N. Y., Putnam, 1888. 361 p. D. $1.25.

A capital introductory work.

Von Holst, H. E. Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Dusseldorf, 1873-84. 6 v.

Same. Constitutional and Political History of the United States. Tr. by J. J. Lalor. Chicago, Callaghan & Co., 1885. 6 v. $20.

Is unrivalled as a political history, and contains, in its critical passages, a great deal of sound political philosophy. V. 6 brings the narrative to 1859. Translation not always perfect, and typographical errors are many.

In Lalor's Cyclopædia of Political Science, Prof. Alex. Johnston contributed articles which are among the best political literature of America.

A record of political events, American and foreign, commencing with Oct. I, 1888, is contained in the Political Science Quarterly, beginning with the no. for June, 1889.

N. Y.,

Theory and Practice of Elections, Presidential Elections, and Civil Service Reform are treated in the Collected Essays of Prof. W: G. Sumner. Holt, 1885.

The Constitution of the United States in Civil War. W: A. Dunning. Political Science Quarterly, June, 1886.

The Constitution of the United States in Reconstruction. W: A. Dunning. Political Science Quarterly, Dec., 1887.

Constitutions of the State of New York. J. Hampden Dougherty. Political Science Quarterly, Dec., 1888, and June, 1889.

ENGLISH CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT.

Taylor, HANNIS. Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. 2d ed. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890. Part 1, 616 p. D. $4.50.

This work, to be completed in a second part, is intended to show, in the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English Constitutional system, and the growth therefrom of the Federal Republic of the United States.

Amos, SHELDON. A Primer of the English Constitution and Government. 3d ed. Lond. and N. Y., Longmans, 1877. 243 p. D. $1.75.

Amos, SHELDON. Fifty Years of the English Constitution, 1830-80. Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1880. 32+495 p. O. $3.

Anson, Sir WILLIAM R. Law and Custom of the Constitution. Part 1, Parliament. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1886. 19+336 p. O. $2.75.

An authoritative exposition. Part 2 will deal with the executive. Should accompany the study of Professor Dicey's work on the Law of the Constitution.

Bagehot, W. The English Constitution, and other Essays. N. Y., Appleton, 1876. 8+468 p. D. $2.

A capital popular exposition.

Chalmers, M. D. Local Government. English Citizen series. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1883. 160 p. D. $1.

Craik, H: The State and Education. English Citizen series. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1884. 166 p. D. $1.

Creasy, E. S. The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution. 4th ed. rev. N. Y., Appleton, 1886. 11+359 p. D. $1.50.

Cunningham, W. Politics and Economics, with survey of recent [British] legislation. Lond., Kegan Paul, 1885. 16+275 p. D. 5s.

Favorable to State interference.

Dicey, A. V. Lectures Introductory to the Constitution. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1885.

The best introductory book on the English Constitution. of the Constitution of the United States.

Study of the Law of the 7+407 p. O. $3.50. Contains a thoughtful analysis

Farrer, Sir T: H. The State in Its Relation to Trade. English Citizen series. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1883. 11+181 p. D. $1.

An admirable little book.

Freeman, E. A. The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times. 4th ed. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1884. 234 p. D. $1.75. Hallam, H: Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the death of George II. New ed. N. Y., A. C. Armstrong &

Son, 1885. 3 v. O. cl. $5.25; hf. cf. $10.50.

Jevons, W: STANLEY. The State in Relation to Labor. English Citizen series. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1882. 166 p. D. $1.

Low, SIDNEY J., and Pulling, F. S., eds. Dictionary of English History. Lond. and N. Y., Cassell, 1885. 1119 p. O. $6.

Contains many articles on Constitutional subjects which state in brief form the results of latest scientific research. It has an able list of writers.

May, Sir T: ERSKINE. Constitutional History of England, 1760-1860, with a new chapter, 1861-71. N. Y., A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1885.

cl. $2.50; hf. cf. $6.

Continuation of Hallam.

2 v. O.

Skottowe, B. C. A Short History of Parliament. N. Y., Harper, 1887. 345 p. D. $1.25.

An introductory work.

Stubbs, W:

Constitutional History of England. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1878. 3 v. 713-708-680 p. O. Library ed., $12.; Students' ed., $7.80. The best work on the subject. Thoroughly judicial.

Taswell-Langmead, T: P. English Constitutional History. 3d ed. rev. and enl. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886. 826 p. O. $7.50.

An excellent manual, well fitted for use as a text book.

Lond.

Todd, ALPHEUS. On Parliamentary Government in England: its origin, development, and practical operation. 2d ed., edited by his son. and N. Y., Longmans, 1889. 2 v. 844, 964 p. O. $17.50.

The best work on the subject.

Todd, ALPHEUS. Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies. Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1880. 12+607 p. O. $5.

The standard authority.

Boutmy, E. Le développement de la constitution et de la société po1itique en Angleterre. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie., 1887. 352 p. D. 3.50 francs.

Combines the legal with the historical aspect of English constitutional history.

De Franqueville, Comte. Le gouvernement et le parlement britanniques. Paris, Rothschild, 1887. 3 v. 595, 567, 575 p. D. 24 francs.

Gneist, RUDOLPH. Das englische Parlament. Berlin, Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1886. 407 p. O. 7 marks.

An analysis tracing out the sources of the English Parliament's stability, with comment on the dangers now held to be threatening that stability. Of interest to those who believe influences to be at work in opposition to American institutions for local self-government.

Same. The English Parliament. Tr. by R. J. Shee. Bost., Little Brown & Co., 1886. 420 p. O. $3.50.

A faulty translation.

Same. Tr. by E. H. Keane. N. Y., Putnam, 1887. 462 p. O. $3. The preferable version.

Gneist, RUDOLPH. Das englische Verwaltungsrecht der Gegenwart in Vergleichung mit den deutschen Verwaltungssystemen. 3te nach deutscher systematik umgestaltete Aufl. Berlin, 1884. O.

The only comprehensive work on English administrative law.

Gneist, RUDOLPH. History of the English Constitution. N. Y., Putnam, 2 v. O. $8.

1886.

Two principles are brought out with special prominence-that the national Government of England has been for generations supreme over every personal body throughout the State, and that Englishmen are determined to be ruled by law.

Gneist, RUDOLPH. Self-Government. Communalverfassung und Verwaltungsgerichte in England. Berlin, J. Springer, 1871. 1028 p. O.

Jellinek, GEORG. Gesetz und Verordnung. Freiburg, J. C. B. Mohr, 1887. 412 p. O. 10 marks.

A disquisition on the encroachments of the administrative upon the legislative authority in England, France, Germany, Austria, and Belgium; with analogies from the history of Greece, Rome, and the United States.

English Local Government Bill. Frank J. Goodnow. Political Science Quarterly, June, 1888.

Local Government in England. Frank J. Goodnow. Political Science Quarterly, Dec., 1887.

CANADIAN CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT.

Bourinot, J: G: Federal Government in Canada. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. series, 1889. pap. $1.

Bourinot, J: G: Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada. Montreal, Dawson Bros., 1888. 238 p. D. $1.25.

A revision of the author's "Parliamentary Practice and Procedure in Canada." By the chief authority on Canadian Constitutional questions.

Colby, C: C. Parliamentary Government in Canada. Montreal, Dawson Bros. 57 p. S. 50 c.

An outline of the Canadian political system by a Member of Parliament. describe the Constitution and procedure of the two Houses of the Legislature.

Omits to

Munro, J. E. C. Constitution of Canada. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1889. 356 p. O. $3.

A comprehensive treatise.

Smith, GOLDWIN. Political Destiny of Canada. With a reply by Sir Francis Hincks, and a rejoinder. Toronto, Williamson & Co., 1878. $1.

Holds annexation to the United States to be Canada's political destiny. Sir Francis Hincks was for some years a Minister of the Crown.

Canada and the United States, a study in comparative politics. not. Annals Am. Acad. Pol. and Soc. Science, Phila., July, 1890.

J. G. Bouri

OTHER FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND CONSTITUTIONS. Hart, A. B. Introduction to the Study of Federal Governments. Harvard Historical monograph, no. 2. N. Y., Ginn & Co., 1890. 218 p. D. $1.

Brief sketches of the principal federal governments, from the Amphictyonic Council to Brazil, with brief critical accounts of the literature upon each. Includes a parallel conspectus of the texts of the constitutions of Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States.

James, E. J., tr. Federal Constitution of Germany. Phila., Wharton School of Finance and Economy, 1890. 43 p. D. pap. 50 c.

James, E. J., tr. Federal Constitution of Switzerland. Phila., Wharton School of Finance and Economy, 1890. 46 p. D. pap. 50 c. Lockwood, H. C.

McNally & Co., 1890.

Constitutional History of France. N. Y., Rand, 442 p. O. $2.50.

Moses, BERNARD. Federal Government of Switzerland. Cal., Pacific Press Pub. Co., 1889. 256 p. D. $1.50.

Oakland,

Concisely presents the fundamental ideas of central government, not only of Switzerland, but of important confederations in both hemispheres. Not entirely satisfactory.

Adams, Sir F. O., and Cunningham, C. The Swiss Confederation. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1889. 8°, $4.

Same. La Confederation Suisse. Ed. française avec notes et additions par H. G. Loumeyer. Basle, H. Georg, 1890. 319 p. 8°.

The notes and additions confer new value on this important work.

Demombynes, G. Constitutions Européennes.

Forcel, 1881.

2 V. L. Larose &

Résumé of the legislation concerning the Parliaments, the Councils Provincial and Communal, and judicial organization in the different countries of Europe, with a note on the Congress of the United States.

Hélie, M. FAUSTIN-ADOLPHE. Les Constitutions de la France. Paris, A. M. Ainé, 1880. 1468 p. O.

The best history of French constitutions, with excellent commentary. Schultze, HERMANN. Lehrbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881-6. 2 v. in I. 21 marks.

An account of the historical development of the German state, and the comparative constitutional and administrative law of the twenty-five states within the empire.

Local Government in Prussia. Frank J. Goodnow. Political Science Quarterly, Dec., 1889, March, 1890.

GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION.

The best work in this department is Kirchenheim's; Carlier's is very valuable. Many works already mentioned as treating Constitutional Government also deal with Administration, as for example, Woodrow Wilson's "The State [Political Science, General Works], and De Franqueville's “ Le gouvernement et le parlement britanniques," [English Constitution and Government.] Lamphere's Description of the Government of the United States is the best.

GENERAL WORKS.

Elmes, WEBSTER. Executive Departments of the United States at Washington. Washington, W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1879. 557 p. D. $4. Lamphere, G: N. The United States Government, its Organization and Practical Workings. Phila., Lippincott, 1880. 297 p. O. $2.50.

Aucoc, J: L. Conferences sur l'administration et le droit administratif. Paris, Dunod, 1886. 3 v. O.

V. I will be found the most valuable to the general reader. The others are technical. Batbie, A. P. Traité theorique et pratique de droit public et administratif. Paris, Cotillon, 1862-68. 7 v. O.

Block, MAURICE, ed. Dictionnaire de l'administration française. 2d ed. Paris, Berger, Levrault & Cie., 1878. 1856 p. O. Supplement, 1878-84. 446 p. O.

Each article gives a bibliography, and compares French with other systems.

Carlier, AUGUste. Droit public des états unis. Paris, Guillaumin, 1890. A masterly review.

Couturier, R. Organisation politique, administrative et judiciaire de la France. 2me ed. Lyon, L'auteur, 1886. 68 p. O. 2 fr.

Monnet, EMILE. Histoire de l'administration provinciale, departmentale et communale en France. Paris, A. Rousseau, 1885. 7+565 p. O. Vivien, A. F. A. Etudes administratives. 3me ed. Paris, Guillaumin, 1859. 2 v. D.

Bornhak, CONRAD. Preussisches Staatsrecht. Freiburg, 1888-90. 3 v. O. V. 1 and 2 are especially devoted to administration.

Gneist, RUDOLF. Das Englische Verwaltungsrecht der Gegenwart. Berlin, J. Springer, 1884. 2 v. in I.

Gneist, RUDOLF. Das Englische Verwaltungsrecht mit Einschluss des Heeres, der Gerichte und der Kirche. 2te Aufl. Berlin, J. Springer, 1867. 2 v. O. The best general work on English administration.

Kirchenheim, A. v. Einführung in das Verwaltungsrecht. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1885. 7+174 p. O.

The best work on the subject. It compares the administrations of Germany, France, and England. Contains a complete bibliography of 20 p.

90.

Laband, PAUL. Das Staatsrecht des deutschen Reichs. Freiburg, 1887

Of this one v. and 2 pts. of a second v. have appeared. A clear, complete and logical work.

Rüttimann, H. Das Nordamerikanische Bundestaatsrecht. Zurich, Drell, 1867-76. 2 v. O.