PERSONAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

J. W. GARNER

In order that, beginning with 1909, the volumes of the REVIEW may correspond with the calendar year, it has been decided to omit the publication of the August, 1908, number and have the November, 1908, issue constitute the fourth number of volume II.

Three German professors of public law have recently died at advanced ages. They were Felix Stoerk of Greifswald, Karl Fricker of Leipzig and Heinrich Dernburg of Berlin. Since Professor Dernburg's death a new edition (the fourth) of his Bürgerliche Recht des deutschen Reiches und Preussen has been issued from the press.

Friedrich von Wyfs, professor of legal history in the University of Zurich recently died in the eighty-ninth year of his age.

Friedrich Stein, a law professor in the University of Halle and the author of a new work entitled Zur Justizreform which has recently attracted wide attention among those interested in legal reform in Germany, has been appointed to an honorary professorship in the University of Leipzig.

Dr. Karl Neumeyer has been appointed professor of international private law and administrative law in the University of Munich.

A new chair for the teaching of the history of political science has been established at the Sorbonne with Adolphe Landry as the professor in charge.

Edward Henry Strobel, Bemis professor of international law at Harvard University from 1898 to 1906 and general adviser to the king of Siam, died at Bankok, January 15, 1908, in the fifty-third year of his age. Mr. Strobel was a native of South Carolina, a graduate of the Harvard Law School and in early life filled several quasi-diplomatic missions. Later he served successively as secretary of legation, assistant secretary of state, minister to Ecuador and Chili, and in 1903 became adviser to the king of Siam. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him, his scholarship was of a high order and his success as a diplomat

remarkable. He exerted a large influence on the foreign policy of Siam, his crowning achievement being the negotiation of the Franco-Siamese treaty of 1907.

Henry Loomis Nelson, for the past six years David A. Wells professor of political science at Williams College, died on February 29, in his sixty-second year. Mr. Nelson graduated at Williams College, studied law at Columbia and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He served as private secretray to Speaker Carlisle, was for a time principal editorial writer for the Boston Post and in 1894 became editor of Harper's Weekly a position he held for four years. He was author of several books dealing with economic subjects.

Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, three times assistant secretary of state of the United States, secretary of the joint high commission which met at Washington, 1871, to conclude a treaty for the settlement of the Alabama claims, the agent of the United States before the Geneva arbitration tribunal, minister to Germany 1874-77, judge of the United States court of claims and reporter of the supreme court of the United States, in succession, died at Washington in his eighty-fifth year, on December 27, last. Mr. Davis managed the case of the United States before the Geneva tribunal with remarkable skill and it was the testimony of Count Sclopis that the decision in favor of the American claims was largely due to the successful manner in which the case was presented by Mr. Davis. He was the author of a volume of The Treaties and Conventions of the United States with elaborate notes, and also a volume entitled Mr. Fish and the "Alabama" Claims.

Dr. Robert C. Brooks, professor of economics in Swarthmore College since 1904, has been appointed professor of political science in the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Brooks is a graduate of the University of Indiana, received his doctor's degree at Cornell, studied at Halle and Berlin and was editor of Municipal Affairs, 1896–97.

The readers of THE POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW will regret to learn that Prof. John Bassett Moore of Columbia University has been compelled, on account of overwork which has affected his eyes, to give up his academic duties this year and take a long delayed vacation. During the seventeen years he has been at Columbia, Professor Moore has taken no leave except during the Spanish-American war when he was in the pub

lic service as assistant secretary of state. His courses in international law are being given by Dr. George Winfield Scott, of the law library of congress.

Right Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, will deliver the Dodge lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship at Yale next fall, Señor Barbossa of Brazil, who was first selected, being unable to accept the appointment.

Edmond Kelley, a well known American lawyer who for many years has resided in Paris, the author of Government or Human Evolution, in two volumes, recently a convert to socialism, is the author of a socilogical study entitled The Elimination of the Tramp which has lately appeared from the press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is mainly a description of the Swiss system of free labor self-supporting tramp colonies, through which, the author claims, vagabondage in Switzerland has been eliminated without cost to the state beyond the initial expense of purchasing land and constructing buildings.

Clifford N. Johnson of Detroit has been awarded the first prize of $1000 offered by the Merchant Marine League of the United States for the best essay on the subject How to Build Up Our Merchant Marine in the Foreign Trade. Four hundred essays were submitted in competition for the prize. Mr. Johnson's plan recommends the granting of small subsidies from a fund to be established by increased tonnage duties.

The fourteenth annual Lake Mohonk conference on arbitration will be held this year on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 20, 21 and 22. A large attendance is expected. There will be six sessions: one, devoted to the work of the second Hague conference; one to the relations of colleges and universities to the arbitration movement; one to the relations of business men to the arbitration movement; one to Pan-American interest in and contributions to the movement; and two to the general subject of arbitration. There will be more than the usual number of distinguished speakers. Among those who have already accepted invitations to make addresses are Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, chief justice of Canada; Hon. James Brown Scott of Washington; President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California; Chancellor H. C. White of the University of Georgia; Señor Don Anibal Cruz, minister

of Chili to the United States; Señor Don Joaquin B. Calvo, minister of Costa Rica to the United States, Hon. John Barrett of Washington and Dr. Benj. F. Trueblood of Boston.

M. André Tardieu, foreign editor of the Paris Temps delivered a series of lectures on France and the Alliances at Harvard University in February. M. Tardieu though still in his thirty-second year has already had a brilliant career as a journalist and a diplomat. He is the author of two books, both of which attracted wide attention at the time of their publication: The Diplomatic Questions of the Year 1904 and The Conference of Algeciras-A Diplomatic History of the Moroccan Crisis.

An English translation of the German imperial civil code of 1900, made by a Chinese graduate student at Yale, Dr. Chung Hui Wang, has been published in London by Stevens and Sons. The translation is regarded by competent authorities as an excellent one and constitutes a remarkable achievement for one to whom neither German nor English is a native tongue.

President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois and Prof. L. S. Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania have been appointed by the secretary of state as members of a committee to coöperate with the department of state in carrying out the resolutions adopted by the last Pan American conference held at Rio Janeiro in 1905.

The fourth Latin American scientific congress will be held in Santiago, Chili, in December of this year. The main purpose of these congresses is to bring together the best scientific thought on the leading problems of common interest to the American republics. The forthcoming congress will be divided into nine sections, one of which will be devoted to jurisprudence and political science. A strong effort is being made to induce congress to make an appropriation for sending a suitable number of delegates from the United States.

The extensive library of rare German socialistic literature collected by Herman Schlüter, editor of the New York Volkszeitung, has been presented to the University of Wisconsin by Mr. William English Walling. Besides the works of German socialist authors, the collection contains many official documents and files of socialist periodicals.

The name of the American Law Register has been changed to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review-a name which emphasizes the fact that the magazine is edited by the law department of that university.

Hon. Samuel W. McCall, representative in congress from Massachusetts, is delivering a series of lectures on the Blumenthal foundation at Columbia University. His subject is the Business of Congress.

The American branch of the Association for International Conciliation (P. O. sub-station 84, New York City) has issued the following documents which are sent gratis to persons requesting them:

(1) Results of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, by Andrew Carnegie. April, 1907. (2) Program of the Association for International Conciliation, by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. April, 1907. (3) A League of Peace (address delivered at the University of St. Andrews) by Andrew Carnegie. November, 1907. (4) The Results of the Second Hague Conference, by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant and Hon. David Jayne Hill. January, 1908. (5) The Work of the Second Hague Conference, by James Brown Scott. January, 1908.

The Proceedings of the National Municipal League for 1907 have been published. The volume contains articles on the Galveston and Des Moines plans, electoral reform, municipal health and sanitation, and other current municipal topics.

The Proceedings of the first national conference on state and local taxation, held under the auspices of the National Tax Association at Columbus, Ohio, November 12-15, 1907, have been published in a handsome volume (The Macmillan Company, 1908, pp. xx+675). Some fortyeight papers and addresses are given. The volume should be of very great value to all persons seeking to learn present day opinions regarding the best modes of obtaining State and local revenues.

Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have recently published a new book entitled South America on the Eve of Emancipation, by Prof. Bernard Moses of the University of California. A new edition of The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America by the same author has also lately appeared from the same press.

The Journal of the Constitutional Convention, in two volumes, by Gaillard Hunt (Putnam's, 1908) contains, complete, Madison's record of the