vision of the board. The bridge will provide free passage for pedestrians, wagons, street railways, and steam railroads.

PERSONAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

J. W. GARNER

The fourth annual meeting of the American Political Science Association was held at Madison, Wisconsin, December 27-31. At the same time and place annual meetings were held of the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Sociological Society, the American Association for Labor Legislation, and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. The entertainment of the members of the associations was undertaken by the Social Sciences Club of the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and was bountiful to an extreme. A large number of the members of the Political Science Association were registered as in attendance and the papers read were uniformly interesting and valuable. The addresses will be published during the early spring as volume four of the Proceedings of the Association. The several sessions were devoted to a discussion of the following subjects: The Latin-American Republics, the Newer Institutional Forms of Democracy, The Government of Dependencies, Comparative Legislation, The Administration of Punitive Justice, and Public Service Commissions.

The secretary of the association reported a gratifying increase in membership during the year, the present enrollment being a trifle over six hundred as compared with three hundred and forty a year ago. So expensive, however, is the publication of the REVIEW, that the association is not yet self-supporting. It is hoped, however, that the membership will continue to increase at the same rate during the current year. Present members of the association are earnestly urged to send to the secretary the names of those of their associates or acquaintances who it is thought may be interested in the work and publications of the association, in order that he may communicate with them by letter, circular or specimen copy of the REVIEW. Experience has shown that it is almost wholly in this personal manner that new members have been obtained. In order that, beginning with 1909, the volumes of the REVIEW may correspond with the calendar year, it was decided to omit the publication of the August, 1908, number and have the November, 1908, issue consitute the fourth number of volume two. It was voted to hold the

fifth annual meeting of the association in Richmond, Virginia, though the executive council was authorized, at its discretion, to hold one session in Washington, D. C. The following officers for the year 1908 were elected: President, James Bryce; first vice-president, Albert Bushnell Hart; second vice-president, H. A. Garfield, third vice-president; Paul S. Reinsch; secretary and treasurer, W. W. Willoughby. Profs. Isidor Loeb, J. W. Jenks, and C. E. Merriam were elected to the executive council to fill the places of Dr. H. P. Judson, Prof. B. F. Shambaugh. and Prof. J. A. Fairlie.

Prof. J. W. Garner of the University of Illinois was selected as a member of the board of editors of the REVIEW to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Robert H. Whitten.

Mr. Ellery C. Stowell has been appointed instructor in international law at George Washington University. Mr. Stowell is a graduate of Harvard, has the degree of Licencié en droit from Paris and has completed the requirements for the degree of Docteur en droit. He attended the recent Hague conference as secretary of the committee of which Prof. Martens was chairman.

Dr. Adna F. Webber of Albany, N. Y., and Mr. Delos F. Wilcox of Michigan have accepted appointments to expert positions in connection with the New York public utilities commission.

Prof. C. H. Huberich of the Leland Stanford University law school recently visited Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of collecting material for a new edition of Borchardt's Commercial Laws of the World, now appearing in Berlin under the editorship of Prof. Joseph Kohler.

The Nobel peace price this year was divided and awarded equally to Ernesto Teodor Moneta of Italy and Louis Renault of France. Signor Moneta has been prominent as a worker in the interest of peace for some years and last year was elected president of the fifteenth universal peace congress which met at Milan. M. Renault is the well known professor of international law in the Paris Ecole des Sciences Politiques, is a member of the French Institute, legal adviser to the French foreign office, a member of the Hague permanent court of arbitration, was a delegate to both of the Hague conferences, and is the author of various works on international law and diplomacy.

Hon. James Brown Scott solicitor of the department of state and delegate to the second Hague peace conference will deliver a course of

lectures at the Johns Hopkins University during the month of February on the work of the conference.

Prof. E. W. Kemmerer of Cornell University has been appointed managing editor of the Bulletin which is to be published by the American Economic Association, Prof. C. W. A. Veditz having been obliged by the pressure of other duties to resign the position. Four numbers of the Bulletin will be issued during the present year. The first number will appear on or before May first.

A supplementary volume to the second volume of Jones' Index to Legal Periodicals (1899), bringing that valuable reference work to date, was arranged for at the last meeting of the law librarians of the United States. Beginning also with January, 1908, a quarterly index will be issued.

With the October, 1907, issue, the first volume of The American Journal of International Law, (published for the American Society of International Law by Baker, Voorhis & Co. New York. Vol. I, pp. 1079; Supplement, Vol. I, pp. 425) is completed, and an opportunity afforded to call attention to its value to students of international law and politics. The Journal is the organ of, and is published by the newly established American Society of International Law, which had its first annual meeting in Washington, D. C., last spring. Hon. James Brown Scott, solicitor of the department of state, is the managing editor of the Journal and the board of editors is composed of Prof. Charles Noble Gregory, Mr. Robert Lansing, Prof. J. B. Moore, Hon. W. W. Morrow, Prof. L. S. Rowe, Secretary Oscar S. Straus, Prof. George G. Wilson, Prof. Theodore S. Woolsey, and Hon. David J. Hill, the last named acting as European editor. The Journal proper contains, besides leading articles and book reviews, editorial comment upon current international topics, citations from judicial decisions involving questions of international law, references to periodical literature, lists of public documents relating to international law, and a chronicle of international events. The list of public documents is furnished by Mr. Philip De Witt Phair of the Library of Congress and the chronicle by Mr. Henry G. Crocker. Mr. Crocker has greatly added to the value of his chronique by appending to each entry references to both primary and secondary sources of information. With each number of the Journal is issued a Supplement, containing important official documents, domestic and foreign, of an international interest. In general these documents are of recent date but in some instances the commendable policy has been followed of reprinting older papers

of especial importance, as, for examples, the Declaration of Paris, the Geneva Convention, the Declaration of St. Petersburg, etc. These supplements are paged, sewed and indexed separately from the Journal, thus permitting the issues of each year to be bound as an independent volume. The mere statement of the material thus furnished by this Journal is sufficient to demonstrate its value, but when to this is added the fact that the leading articles have been almost uniformly of a high scientific character, that the editorial comments have been discriminative and illuminating, and that the other departments of the Journal have been ably conducted, it is clear that students and publicists would be ungrateful indeed did they not recognize the obligation under which they have been placed by the managers of the Journal and by the society which publishes it.

Dr. Charles A. Beard, Blumenthal professor of politics in Columbia University, recently inaugurated the practice of supplementing the theoretical instruction of the class room by practical lessons in politics, through the agency of mock conventions, committees, the drafting of platforms, and the like. The success of the experiment has attracted wide attention and illustrates the possibility of teaching the science of government in a practical way.

An effort is being made to raise a Frederick William Maitland fund for the promotion of research and instruction at Cambridge in the history of law and legal institutions. A committee was recently appointed at Trinity College to solicit subscriptions, among the members being the deans of a number of American law faculties, as well as various American scholars and lawyers.

Among the announcements of the Macmillan Co. are J. A. Fairlie's Essays in Municipal Government; Kirkpatrick's School Administration; and Hannis Taylor's Science of Jurisprudence.

New books announced by P. S. King & Son include The Citizen and His Duties by W. F. Trotter; Old Age Pensions in Theory and Practice by William Sutherland; Socialism by J. Ramsey Macdonald, M.P; Political Institutions in Egypt and The Case for Constitutional Reform in Egypt, both by H. C. Fox Bourne.

Right Honorable James Bryce, British Ambassador, in an address delivered January 24, 1908, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, before the State Bar Association of New York, dealt with Methods and

Conditions of Legislation. At the same meeting Mr. Choate gave a résumé of the second Hague peace conference.

Among the recent publications of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research are: Some Phases of the Work of the Department of Street Cleaning; How Manhattan is Governed; Making a Municipal Budget, and A Department of Municipal Audit.

President A. T. Hadley's Kennedy lectures before the New York School of Philanthropy have been published under the title Standards of Public Morality (Harper & Brothers). The subjects of the lectures are: The formation of public opinion, the ethics of trade, the ethics of corporate management, the working of our political machinery, and the political duties of the citizen.

New editions of Charles Mulford Robinson's Modern Civic Art and The Improvement of Towns and Cities have recently appeared.

A third section, revised and enlarged, of Kirkup's An Inquiry into Socialism has been issued by Longmans, Green & Co., 1907, pp. 216. The work has been out of print since 1890.

Prof. George E. Howard of the University of Nebraska has published (Univ. of Neb. Press) two valuable analytical reference syllabi, the one dealing with general sociology (pp. 86), the other with comparative federal institutions (pp. 133).

A second edition of Dr. Max West's valuable monograph on The Inheritance Tax (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, vol. iv, no. 2) has appeared. The newer developments in this form of taxation, here and abroad, have been noted, with the result that the study has almost doubled in length.

Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of Dartmouth College has brought out through the Johns Hopkins Press a monograph entitled American Diplomacy Under Tyler and Polk, being a series of lectures delivered a year ago on the Albert Shaw foundation at the Johns Hopkins University.

In a book entitled The Fundamentals of American Government (Rochester: The Lawyers' Coöperative Publishing Co. 1907, pp. 232) Mr. Charles Z. Lincoln has sought to furnish in convenient form to foreigners intending to become American citizens, the four great documents-Magna Charta, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution upon which our government is founded. The author