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this both in the preface and in the contents of the later work. The same subject heading is often repeated, and the same books listed a sec- ond time. Thus under " Condition of the Poor" we find that about one-half the titles have been relisted in the second publication. Under the "Woman Question" nearly all have been taken over. What makes the matter still worse, we are given no reference from the heading in the second publication to that in the first. This is, to say the least, poor workmanship. The arrangement and technique of the two pub lications are uniform. The rather large Roman type is a comfort to the eye, but destructive to space. It seems to me that the giving of full titles and the repetition in full in the case of translations might be dispensed with in favor of completeness in the number of entries.

Muhlbrecht's Wegweiscr covers the well-known field of Rechts- und Staatswis sense haf ten. It is made up, as the author states, with a frankness very pleasing in comparison with the ambiguity of Stamm- hammer's preface, mainly of selections from the works which were announced during the years 1868-92, in the bimonthly publication, Allgemeine Bibliographic dtr Staats- und Rechtswisscnschaftcn, of which the author is editor. The remainder of the titles, perhaps one-sixth, are of an earlier date than 1868, and selected from the antiquarian stock of Puttkammer & Miihlbrecht. The first edition of the work appeared in 1886. The present edition, double the size of the first, contains about 32,000 titles, which is about twice the number con- tained in Stammhammer's Bibliographic der Socialpolitik. These are all brought into the compass of a single volume by a skillful shorten- ing of titles and manipulation of type. The entries contain all the necessary items, including price. The titles are arranged systematically according to a scheme partly original with the author. The headings and subheadings of this scheme are prefixed as a table of contents. The book is also provided with a very detailed author and subject index. The contents of the Wegweiser takes its color, perhaps, from the business of Puttkammer & Miihlbrecht. It is very complete for the literature of legal and political science in Germany, less complete for other countries and topics not strictly belonging to these sciences. America, as usual, fares badly. Omissions occur like : ! ord's Pamphlets on the Constitution : Hart's Introduction to the Study of the Federal Gov- ernment; Jameson's Constitutional Conventions; Wilson's The State. For such topics as " Povi ! abor Question," " Insurance, "etc.,

i' il much inferior to Stammhammer's second work. Nearly all the