President Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin, Prof. John R. Commons, and a number of others.

The thirty-first annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held in Philadelphia, December 14 and 15, 1911. The following papers were presented: Improvements in the Administration of the Merit System in New York City, by James Creelman; Relation of Organized Labor to Civil Service Reform, by Samuel B. Donnelly; Situation in Illinois under the new State Civil Service Law, by Wm. B. Moulton; Spoils Raids in New York State, by Robert W. Belcher; Competition for the Expert Administrative Positions in City Government, by Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

The Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize competition has been announced for 1912. The competition is primarily economic in character, but among the subjects suggested as available are several which fall in large part within the field of political science. Correspondence with respect to the matter should be had with Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin of the University of Chicago.

Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota have joined in an arrangement to exchange professors with Japan. Japan is to be represented this year by Professor Inazo Nitobe of the First Imperial College of Japan (Tokyo), who plans to spend about a month. at each of the American universities with which exchange relations have been established. Professor Nitobe began his exchange professorship at Columbia University in November and December, and his lectures in this country deal with the present conditions and problems of New Japan.

Pursuant to a vote of the electors of Ohio, November, 1910, and to a legislative act in accordance therewith, delegates to a constitutional convention for the purpose of framing a new constitution or revising the present constitution of the state of Ohio, were elected in November, 1911. All the delegates were elected upon non-partisan tickets as required by the law of the state and all were nominated by petition; consequently it may be assumed that in general the delegates were elected either upon personal merit or upon the principal questions which seemed to be at issue in the campaign. The

initiative and referendum, reform of judicial procedure, and local option in municipal charter making were the principal issues. Those advocating the above came to be classed as Progressives and those opposed as Conservatives, as the campaign progressed. As nearly as can be determined the progressives of various shades of "progressivism" elected two thirds of the membership of the convention. The present constitution of Ohio was adopted sixty years ago and is one of the most rigid and difficult of amendment among the state constitutions. The proceedings of the convention therefore are likely to attract not simply the interest of the people of the state of Ohio, but of students of governmental organization throughout the country.

One of the three delegates from Franklin county in which Columbus, the capital city is situated, is G. W. Knight, professor of American History at Ohio State University, who was nominated and elected on a progressive platform by a voluntary organization of various civic bodies of the county.

A Digest of State Constitutions has been prepared for the use of the Ohio Constitutional Convention which is now sitting; the digest was prepared under the direction of the Municipal Association of Cleveland. The same association has prepared a report on constitutional municipal home rule in Ohio.

Mr. Nelson W. Evans, a delegate in the Ohio Constitutional Convention which is now sitting, prepared and issued before the assembling of the convention A Model Constitution for the State of Ohio (pp. 23). It may be of interest to suggest that his proposal contemplates a decided reduction in the number of elected state officers, and a concentration of state executive power in the hands of the governor.

Prof. Roscoe Pound has published in the Harvard Law Review (June, December, 1911) two articles that form part of a book which he has in preparation on Sociological Jurisprudence.

The first number of the new Yale Review appeared in October, 1911. The new journal is primarily literary and critical in character, but an article in the first number by Henry Barrett Learned, on "The Postmaster General," is of interest to students of politics and history.

A Short History of War and Peace, by G. H. Perris (New York: Henry Holt, pp. 256) is an essay on world history, with some reference to methods of warfare. The author has a concluding chapter on the organization of peace, in which he says that forces making for world peace are: (1) advance in character and quantity of armaments; (2) unification of the commercial life of civilized nations; (3) organization of labor along international lines; and (4) the general tendency among western nations toward an arrest of population through a decreasing birth rate.

The government of the Union of South Africa has issued the Minutes of Proceedings with Annexes of the South African National Convention held at Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, 12 Oct., 1908, to 11 May, 1909. (Pp. xxv, 451.) The appendices to this volume contain the South Africa Act and drafts of the proposed measure at various stages, the resolutions of the various parliaments approving the act, and reports of the convention.

The Australian government has recently published a volume containing the Commonwealth Electoral Act, 1902-1909, and Referendum (Constitution Alteration) Act, 1906-1910, together with statistical returns in relation to the two proposed constitutional amendments submitted to the people in 1911 (Melbourne Sessional paper No. 2, 1911. Pp. 101). There has also been issued the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia 1901-1911 (Melbourne. Pp. xxvii, 1230). This is the fourth issue of the Year Book since the organization of the Commonwealth.

In October, 1911, was issued the first number of the Bulletin of the Departments of History and of Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. The first number is a reprint of an article by W. L. Grant on "The Colonial Policy of Chatham (pp. 16)." The Bulletin is to be issued quarterly, and the articles appearing therein will be first published in the Queen's Quarterly.

The numbers from May to October, 1911, of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, contained a rather complete classified "List of Works relating to Criminology."

The July-August-September number (Vol. 28, No. 3) of the Revue du droit public et de la science politique contains much matter of

interest to students of constitutional law. M. Paul Heitz has an article on the new constitution of Alsace-Lorraine, and the constitutional and electoral laws are printed in French translation; the new constitution of Monaco is printed in full, together with the somewhat elaborate report presented to the Prince of Monaco by the commission of French jurists. In addition there are interesting articles on the debates on the reform of the Italian Senate, by Prof. I. Tambaro; on political representation in France, by M. Georges Scelle; and on immunities and parliamentary discipline, by M. Roger Bonnard.

The Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Arizona have been published (Phoenix 1911, pp. 450).

The Virginia State Library has issued a pamphlet containing Legislative Reference Lists (pp. 70), prepared for the use of the legislature of 1912 by Mr. Earl G. Swem. The lists, which do not attempt to be exhaustive, relate to a number of subjects, including free textbooks, lobbying and legislative procedure, and workmen's compensation.

A special consular report has been published by the United States government on the Gothenburg system of controlling the liquor traffic (Special Consular Report No. 49, pp. 48). The report gives a brief account of the working of the system, together with a translation of the laws and rules under which the system operates.

During the regular session of the Illinois General Assembly in 1911 the Legislative Voters' League of the state issued weekly bulletins telling briefly and clearly of legislative activities and of the position of the leading members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The Legislative Voters' Association of New York performed a somewhat similar service for their state by frequent reports, which were not printed, however. After the adjournment of the New York legislature in October, 1911, the Legislative Voters' Association of New York issued a report (pp. 21) regarding the legislative session of 1911, and this report sums up briefly the position of representatives and senators upon the more important measures acted upon by the legislature of New York.

Compilations of election laws have been issued within the past year by the following states: Colorado (pp. 165); Minnesota (pp. 107); Ohio (pp. 260); Rhode Island (pp. 196); Utah (pp. 48); Washington (pp. 70); Nevada (pp. 94).

Among the books recently issued are: The Reform of Legal Procedure by Moorfield Storey (Yale University Press); Social Evolution and Political Theory, by Leonard T. Hobhouse (Columbia University Press); The Law of the Employment of Labor, by Lindley D. Clark (Macmillan); Control of the Market, by Bruce Wyman (Moffatt Yard), The Annexation of Texas, by Justin H. Smith (Baker and Taylor).

Mr. Herbert A. L. Fisher has republished in three volumes The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland (Cambridge University Press). All but two of the papers appearing in these volumes had been printed before, but the editor has performed a useful service in bringing together those of Maitland's writings which had not before appeared in the form of independent books.

Georg Jellinek's Ausgewaehlte Schriften und Reden have been brought together in two volumes (Berlin: Haering). Of especial interest are a number of chapters of a treatise on constitutional law, which the author had in preparation.

The Bureau of Corporations has issued Part III of its report on the Taxation of Corporations (Washington, 1911, pp. x, 109). This part deals with the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

The Government Printing Office will soon publish a compilation of federal anti-trust decisions from 1906 to 1911. This compilation will supplement the Federal Anti-Trust Decisions, 1900-1906, edited by James A. Finch and published in 1907. (Washington. 2 vols.)

A volume of Papers on Inter-Racial Problems has been edited by G. Spiller, honorary organizer of the First Universal Races Congress which met at London, July 26-29, 1911 (Boston: Ginn & Co., pp. xvi, 485). The volume, while of much value to persons interested