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 America 719 Field " ; A. S. Hershey, " The Calvo and Drago Doctrines " ; G. G. Wilson, "Insurgency and International Maritime Law"; C. B. Elliot, " The Doctrine of Continuous Voyages " ; and Robert Lansing, " Notes on Sovereignty". The regular departments of the journal are devoted to a chronicle of international events, to a survey of public documents relating to international law, to a summary of judicial decisions involv- ing questions of international law, to book-reviews and notes, and to the periodical literature of the subject. As a supplement, separately bound, is published a body of official documents recently issued or bearing on recent international events. The collection of State Documents on Federal Relations, edited by Herman V. Ames, the final installment of which was noted in these pages in January, . has been issued in book form by the department of history of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1906, pp. 320). It includes 155 documents bearing on the relations of the states to the federal government, 1789-1861, and "comprises typical papers covering the official action of various states in different sections of the country, relative to the chief political and constitutional issues in our history." The Government Printing Office has recently put forth as House Document No. 326, 59th Congress, second session, on Citisenship of the United States, Expatriation and Protection Abroad, the report of the commission consisting of Messrs. James B. Scott. David J. Hill, and Gaillard Hunt, appointed in accordance with the report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs of June 9, 1906. The report takes up in detail the protection of the American citizen abroad, the protection abroad of those who have made the declaration of intention to become citizens, expatriation, and citizenship of married women and of alien-born minor children. Three appendixes contain much docu- mentary material. In The Stars and Stripes and Other American Flags (Little, Brown) the author, Peleg D. Harrison, deals with the origin and history of the various American flags, the regulations of the War and Navy De- partments respecting them, legislation relating to the national standard, and the flags of the Confederacy. The issues of the Magazine of History for October, November and December devote a generous amount of space to reprinting material from other publications: H. Addington Bruce's "New Light on the Mecklenburg Declaration", from the North American Review, Thomas Featherstonhaugh's " A Private Mint in North Carolina ", from the Publications of the Southern History Association; as well as several other contributions of this class. Of the new material we note Warren Upham's article in the October number, on the " Founders of the Fur Trade in Northern Minnesota ".