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emphasis, or the citation of omitted facts ; as, for example, when the author, speaking of the political ideas of New England, does perhaps not sufficiently guard himself, leaving the impressions that the ideas of Roger Williams were the sole political ideas of New England.

Professor Dunning is placing the English-speaking world of scholars under great obligations for supplying so the great need of a reliable and readable treatise in English on the history of political theory. We hope a third volume will in time be added to complete this history, so conceived as to embrace the story of the new work in history, politics, and law, as well as the widening of social science as marked by the rise of sociology.

I. A. Loos.

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

Colonial Administration. (The Citizens Library.) By PAUL S. REINSCH. New York : The Macmillan Co. Pp. viii + 422. The task of colonial administration set before the American people in the last few years has turned public attention to a con- sideration of the methods adopted by other nations in handling this delicate matter. Among the several volumes appearing on this sub- ject is one by Mr. Reinsch which will command attention. He might have considered the means employed by the English, French, Dutch, and other nations ; he might have traced certain factors of control through the policy adopted by each of these governments : or he might have considered each of the most important colonies along these several lines of administration. Most wisely he chose the latter method. It pre-assumes that the real success of the colonial method is to be found in its development in the colony rather than in its theoretical aspects in the mother-country or fatherland. The several lines along which Mr. Heinsch examines the principal colonies of the world are education and general social improvement, finance, currency and banking, communication, agricultural and industrial development, public lands, labor, and defense. The treatment is purely descriptive. The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms in the condensed space at his command. The Philippine revenue act of 1904 he regards as the most sweeping measure of taxation ever devised. " The government has certainly been successful," he says, " in discovering all possible objects of taxation ; it remains to be seen what effect this measure will have on