and that the panic of 1893 was caused by the failure of the public to heed the advice of Hayes in 1878 (p. 100). It seems very like an over-statement to say that Hayes's successful opposition to the Democratic efforts to place riders on the appropriation bills was, as a defense of the constitutional against the "parliamentary " system, alone enough to render his administration "immortal" (p. 124), or to insist that he was the finest example of American manhood that ever occupied the White House (p. 150). It hardly seems correct, in view of the theory adopted by Congress itself and the opinion of the Supreme Court which sustained this theory, to say that Congress "created new States in the South with the boundaries of the old antebellum States" (p. 4). A minor error is the statement that there were two certificates, instead of three, before Congress from Florida in the disputed election case (p. 47). A more serious one is the bald assertion that neither Hayes nor his friends made any agreement with Southerners for the withdrawal of the Federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina in return for support of the decisions of the electoral commission (p. 88), for it flatly ignores the evidence produced by Dr. P. L. Haworth ("The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876," pp. 268-272), as well as the statement of a participant, Henry Watterson ("Century Magazine," May, 1913, p. 19). The typographical work is excellent, and there is a good tematic planning. It consists of a complicated mass of separate and disjointed authorities, operating with little reference to each other or to any central control. This situation is due in part to the desire of political 'experts' to keep the government complicated so as to weaken popular control, and, in part, to general popular ignorance of the importance of efficient administration. There are, however, signs of an awakening from this condition of complacent inertia." This book is a painstaking and systematic effort to aid in correcting these evils, and will doubtless be found more helpful to the student of State administration than any other single volume now in print. It is presented in four parts; an introduction, the organization of the administration, the functions of the administration, and some conclusions. Many will not be willing to follow the author in his two-fold classification of elementary functions of the State, but this is a matter of pure theory. Most students will follow him in all the practical reforms he proposes, such as the short ballot, the single-chambered State legislature, and the like. It is to be hoped that the appearance of such books as this will lead the writers of text-books for schools to give more and more attention to State government which has thus far been so completely neglected by them. So much so that few realize that most of our public welfare is dependent on the State government which is, in such a State as New York, still all that the author in the above paragraph has described. It is sufficient to say that it consists of some 170 but slightly related and almost irresponsible organs of government. HAYES, CARLTON J. H. A Political and Social History of Hunter College of the City of New York. These large volumes were written primarily as a textbook for college and university students. As such they have already been very favorably received. Their most distinctive feature is the very large amount of space devoted to the social and economic side of history. Intellectual development and scientific progress also receive very full treatment. Along these lines Dr. Hayes has done a real service to teachers of history by gathering together much material not easily found elsewhere. But to make room for this material he has compressed the political history into brief space, and treated the religious history of the Reformation period with very great brevity. In these respects the book leaves the student with somewhat scanty or hazy information about some very important matters. There is, however, no great lack of other books in which the political history can be found. Dr. Hayes's books will prove very convenient for high school teachers. But it is likely that very many high school pupils would find the language too difficult and the material rather heavy. Hence the books are not suitable for general assignment to students in high schools. Ohio State University. CLARENCE PERKINS. MATHEWS, JOHN MABRY. Principles of American State "The development of the State administrative organization has for a long time past been largely unconscious, and consequently haphazard. Endless incongruities and absurdities were the natural result. Where improvements in organization occurred they were usually accidental, partial and sporadic. The present organization of State administration contains little evidence of unified design or sys EDGAR DAWSON. PALMER, FREDERICK. My Second Year of the War. New Ohio State University. CLARENCE PERKINS. ROBINSON, CHALFONT. Continental Europe, 1270 to 1598. Revised and adapted from the French of P. Bondois and Ch. Dufayard. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1916. Pp. xv, 489. $2.00. This book is, as the author-translator says in the preface, "mainly a free translation of L'histore de l'Europe et en particulier de la France de 1270 à 1610, par P. Bondois, Agrégé d'histoire, Professeur au lycée Buffon, et Ch. Dufayard, Docteur ès lettres, Professeur au lycée Henry IV." Some chapters of the original work have been omitted in the translation and some additions or expansions have been made to other chapters. In the form as published here the book is particularly full on the history of France during the period of three centuries from the close of the thirteenth to the close of the sixteenth centuries. "The justification . . . for thus emphasizing France," says the preface, "rests not so much upon her relative importance from 1300 to 1600, as upon the exceptional development of the French Monarchy and the definite form given during that time to her political institutions." While intended for the use of college classes, the book would be valuable for reference in the high school history library. In addition to use for reference in European history classes, Chapter XVII on "Great Inventions and Discoveries" and Chapter XVIII on The Conquest of the New World" would be valuable for classes in American colonial history. The work would not be too difficult for occasional reading by high school students. University of Minnesota. WILSON PORTER SHORTRIDGE. Sioux nation.] Bismarck, N. D. 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