The American State Series Eight volumes describing comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental agen. cies of the American State are organized and administered. Edited by W. W. WILLOUGHBY, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. Each about 320 pages. $1.25 net. THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM. PARTY ORGANIZATION. By JESSE MACY, Professor of Political Science at Iowa College. THE AMERICAN EXECUTIVE AND EXECUTIVE METHODS. By President J. H. FINLEY, College of the City of New York. AMERICAN LEGISLATURES AND LEGISLATIVE METHODS. By Professor PAUL R. REINSCH, University of Wisconsin. THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY. By SIMEON E. BALDWIN, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and Professor of Constitutional Law in Yale University. TERRITORIES AND COLONIES. By W. F. WILLOUGHBY, Treasurer of Porto Rico. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TOWNS, COUNTIES, AND VILLAGES. By Professor JOHN A. FAIRLIE, University of Michigan. The Century Co., New York The American State Series THE AMERICAN EXECUTIVE AND EXECUTIVE METHODS BY JOHN H. FINLEY PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK PREFATORY NOTE This note is but to state that the publication of this book, long delayed because of unanticipated and imperative duties under which I have been placed, is made possible even now only by the able co-operation of John F. Sanderson, Esq., whom I have associated with me in this labor in order to complete the series. New York City, J. H. F. |