lems in outlying regions and through the recognition of a certain European solidarity of interest.

At a meeting of the ministers of the Central American republics represented in Washington, on September 18, a protocol was signed providing for a general conference to be held at Washington in November for the adjustment of the mutual relations of the Central American republics.

The agitation against further Asiatic immigration into British Columbia has assumed serious proportions. Local riots have taken place, Asiatics have been threatened and attacked, and a Japanese school set on fire by local rowdies. The agitation is directed against all Asiatics, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindoos, and thus affects the British government in several capacities; in its duty to the Hindoos as their protecting sovereign, and in its international responsibilities to friendly powers like Japan and China, the former of whom stands in a relation of special alliance with Great Britain. The Canadian government is attempting to secure from the government of Japan a modification of the clause in the treaty of 1906 which permits a subject of either country to enter and freely reside in the territory of the other. As this treaty accords very substantial trade advantages to Canada, which are especially favorable to British Columbia on account of its situation, the Dominion government hopes that the provincial authorities may be induced to make special efforts to secure the treaty rights of Japanese residents.

At the opening of the Transvaal parliament on June 20, the premier, General Botha, announced that the government had decided not to re-enact the labor ordinance, but to repatriate all Chinese laborers immediately upon the expiration of their contracts. The premier asserted that it would be easy to secure an adequate supply of native laborers for the mines. The latter are to be recruited under the supervision of the governmental native labor bureau.

The German secretary of state for colonies, Dr. Dernburg, has taken steps towards the founding of a colonial academy at Hamburg, a city which is specially adapted to be the seat of such an institution. Hamburg already has an institute of tropical medicine, which is to be incorporated with the new colonial academy.

PERSONAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

J. W. GARNER

The committee on program of the fourth annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, which will be held at Madison, Wis., during the last week of December, announce that the sessions will be devoted to papers and discussions upon the following subjects: Friday evening, December 27 (joint session with the American Historical Association), Presidential Addresses; Saturday forenoon, December 28, The Relations of the United States to the Latin American Republics; Saturday afternoon, The Newer Institutional Forms of Democracy; Monday forenoon, December 30 (joint session with the National Municipal League), Police Administration in the United States; Monday afternoon, business session report of the committee on the teaching of American government in secondary schools; Section Meeting on Comparative Legislation. Subject: The Methods of Work in Legislative Reference Bureaus; Monday evening, The Administration of Punitive Justice and its Reform; Tuesday forenoon, December 31 (joint session, with the American Economic Association), The Public Utilities Acts of New York and Wisconsin: The Section on Colonies and Dependencies will meet Tuesday forenoon. Prof. C. E. Merriam of the University of Chicago spent the summer in England and Scotland, studying British municipal conditions.

Prof. John A. Fairlie has been elected a delegate to the forthcoming constitutional convention of Michigan. Professor Fairlie expects to bring out at an early date a volume of essays on municipal government to be published by the Macmillan Company.

Dr. Robert H. Whitten, for the last seven years sociology librarian of the New York State Library, has been appointed secretary of the public utilities commission for the city of New York. Mr. Frederick D. Bramhall, of the University of Chicago, has been appointed as Dr. Whitten's successor.

Dr. C. D. Tenney has been appointed lecturer on Chinese history and institutions at Harvard University for the present year.

Dr Jesse S. Reeves, formerly a member of the Indiana bar, has been appointed assistant professor of political science in Dartmouth College. Mr. Reeves received his doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1894 and recently held the Albert Shaw lectureship in that University. He is the author of The International Beginnings of the Congo Free

State and of The Napoleonic Exiles in America. Dr. Frank A. Updyke (Brown, 1905) has also been added to the Dartmouth faculty with the title of assistant professor of political science. He is the author of a monograph, entitled The Treaty of Ghent and the International Negotiations Relative to the War of 1812.

Prof. T. S. Woolsey of Yale University is spending his sabbatical year abroad. His work in international law is being taken by Prof. Chas. C. Hyde of Northwestern University. Prof. Edward V. Raynolds has returned to Yale from his sabbatical year abroad and has resumed his classes in comparative law.

New additions to the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania are Murray W. Gross, assistant in political sicence, and Henry R. Mussey, assistant professor of sociology.

Mr. Gromer, instructor in history in the University of Missouri, has been appointed treasurer of Porto Rico to succeed Mr. W. F. Willoughby, who has been promoted to the secretaryship of the island.

Prof. F. J. Goodnow of Columbia University is spending his sabbatical year in a tour around the world. His work is being given during his absence by Dr. Thomas Reed Powell.

Dr. Chas. A. Beard has been appointed adjunct professor of political science at Columbia on the Blumenthal foundation. His graduate work was done at Oxford and Columbia. He is the author of The Office of Justice of the Peace in England and An Introduction to the English Historians.

The Carpentier lectures on The Science of Law at Columbia University for 1907-1908 will be given by Prof. John C. Gray of Harvard University.

Prof. J. W. Jenks will deliver a course of lectures at Columbia University this fall, on The Principles of Politics from the Viewpoint of an American Citizen. The lectures are given on the Blumenthal foundation.

Dr. William H. Allen, for some years past the general agent for the New York Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor, has been appointed director of the newly created bureau of municipal research in New York City. Mr. Robert Bruére has been chosen as his successor.

Dr. J. L. Barnard of Philadelphia has published a detailed study of the history and workings of factory legislation in Pennsylvania. (J. C. Winston Company, Phila.)

The first two volumes of Alleyne Ireland's monumental series on oriental colonization have appeared from the press. These volumes deal with the administration of British Burma.

G. W. Prothero, D.Litt., LL.H., editor of the Quarterly Review and sometime professor of history in the University of Edinburgh, has accepted the invitation of Harvard College to deliver a course of lectures on The Constitutional History of England from the Great Charter to the Fifteenth Century during the second half of the current academic year.

The National Municipal League has announced that the William H. Baldwin Prize for the coming year will be awarded for the best essay written by an undergraduate student in an American college or university on The Relation of the Municipality to the Street Railway Service. Further information may be had from Prof. L. S. Rowe, chairman of the League's committee on the administration of the prize.

A second examination of candidates for the consular service was recently held at Washington. Of the fifty-four candidates who were designated, thirty-eight presented themselves for examination and thirteen passed.

Governor Guild of Massachusetts, under authority of a resolution of the General Court, has appointed a commission of five persons to investigate the subject of old age insurance and pensions, with a view to establishing such a system in that State.

At a recent meeting of prominent citizens held in Albany, N. Y., plans were adopted for the formation of a State legislative league to obtain publicity in regard to all proposed measures before the State legislature.

The election of delegates to the forthcoming constitutional convention in Michigan was held on September 17. There are ninety-six members altogether, a majority of whom are lawyers, including some of the leading members of the profession. The most important questions to come before the convention relate to restrictions upon special legislation, home rule for cities, taxation, and the initiative and referendum. The convention meets October 22, and will probably be in session until the latter part of January. The new constitution will be submitted to the voters in April.

The next meeting of the National Municipal League will be held at Providence, November 19-22, in conjunction with the American Civic Association. In addition to the annual address of President Bonaparte,

the review of municipal progress by Secretary Woodruff and the reports of the various committees, there will be about fifteen addresses on different phases of municipal and State taxation by specialists in this field; among whom may be mentioned Profs. Seligman, Plehn, Merriam and Wilcox, Frederic C. Howe, Hon. F. N. Judson, Chas. E. Sprague, Geo. F. Seward and H. T. Newcomb. An address on National Parties in Local Elections will be delivered by Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo, and a discussion of electoral reform will be participated in by a number of speakers, including Thos. Raeburn White, Robt. Treat Paine, Wm. M. Ivins, Philip Loring Allen, Walter L. Fisher, J. Hampton Moore and others. The commission plan of government will be discussed by Prof. W. B. Munro, S. B. Allen, Admiral Chadwick and others. On Thursday evening there will be a dinner at which addresses will be delivered by Presidents Bonaparte and McFarland, Governors Guild and Higgins, President Faunce and Secretary Woodruff. On Thursday and Friday mornings there will be joint sessions of both associations at which addresses will be made by a number of distinguished speakers.

Henry Holt and Company have conferred a service upon students of early social and political institutions by reprinting, in comparatively inexpensive form, Lewis H. Morgan's Ancient Society. The original edition of 1877 is followed without change or addition.

A New York State library bulletin, entitled Legislative Reference Lists, 1906, contains brief bibliographies on life insurance, direct nominations, and the inheritance tax.

A select list of books on the French alliance with the United States, prepared by Mr. A. P. C. Griffin, has recently been published by the Library of Congress.

Mr. Courtney S. Kenny's Outlines of the Criminal Law has been revised and adapted for American scholars by James H. Webb (Macmillan). For the general reader and layman it possesses particular merits and to this class the new edition is mainly addressed.

The International Bureau of the American Republics at Washington, D. C., has issued two valuable volumes entitled American Constitutions: A Compilation of the Political Constitutions of the Independent Nations of the New World. These constitutions are given in both the original texts and English translations. In volume one are given the instruments of government of the federal unions, and of the republics of Central America. Volume two contains the constitutions of the republics of the Caribbean Sea, and of South America. A third volume is promised