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 7 1 8 Notes atid News and structures and other landmarks of scientific interest, located within the jurisdiction of the departments indicated. These regulations prescribe the manner in which permits for the work of exploration, examination or excavation shall be given, and the conditions under which objects of interest may be removed from their original locations. A short comprehensive history of the United States is about to be published by Charles Scribner's Sons: A Bird's Eye View of Amer- ican History, by Leon C. Prince. Under the direction of the Department of Economics and Sociology in the Carnegie Institution Miss Adelaide R. Hasse has prepared an analytical index to the economic material in the various documents of the American state governments. The analysis for each state will be issued as a separate book. The first of these, Maine, has just been sent to the press. The next to follow will be New York, New Hamp- shire, and Vermont. Messrs. Henkels and Morrison of Philadelphia issue a prospectus of a Bibliography of the State, Town, County and Territorial History of the United States, compiled by Thomas L. Bradford, M.D., and edited and revised by Stan. V. Henkels. It is expected to embrace about seven thousand titles and to be published in about five octavo volumes. It is proposed to arrange the titles alphabetically by authors, a mode the worst possible for the use of historical scholars, though perhaps convenient for collectors. It is sincerely to be hoped that a geographical order or one alphabetical by place-names, recommended by obvious considerations and usual in such works, will be substituted be- fore 'publication. In the specimen page (Acrelius) we note fourteen misprints. The more special fields in political science are coming to be oc- cupied by American reviews of the first grade. In the pages correspond- ing to these in the last issue we announced the appearance of the American Political Science Review. It is an equally pleasant task to announce the first issue (January) of another quarterly of similar grade though in a more special field, the American Journal of International Law, published by the American Society of International Law under the supervision of Professor James B. Scott, solicitor of the Department of State, as managing editor, assisted by Messrs. C. N. Gregory, Robert Lansing, J. B. Moore, W. W. Morrow, L. S. Rowe, O. S. Straus, G. G. Wilson, T. S. Woolsey and D. J. Hill, who constitute the board of editors. The first issue aims to cover the year 1906 and is on that ac- count more bulky than the succeeding issues will be. The leading articles are by Hon. Elihu Root, " The Need of Popular Understand- ing of International Law " ; John W. Foster, " International Responsi- bility to Corporate Bodies for Lives Lost by Outlawry": J. B. Moore, " International Law: Its Present and Future"; George B. Davis, " Doctor Francis Lieber's Instructions for the Government of Armies in the