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 470 SHORT NOTICES July With the title The Development of an Indian Policy, 1818-1858 (London : Bell, 1921), Messrs. G. Anderson and M. Subedar have edited a source- book of the popular type, and the documents selected partly bear upon matters more or less irrelevant to the title. Such are thugi and the origins of the Calcutta Review. It would be a useful book to put into the hands of an Englishman who wished to know something of the work of Lord William Bentinck, Mountstuart Elphinstone, or Macaulay in the formative period of British Indian history. As it is the second volume of a trilogy and may be designed for use in Indian universities, one may perhaps suggest the desirability of inserting a short bibliography and some whole documents for study instead of selections. K. F. Having two sets of readers to satisfy, Mr. William Roughead has wisely given out his Volume on the trial of Burke and Hare (Edinburgh : Hodge, 1921) in two different editions. The larger, which is before us, gives not only the reports of the main trial and an excellent introduction and illustrations, but also the subsequent proceedings against Hare and a careful bibliography of the whole subject. It satisfies the demands of the historian or lawyer, whilst for the mere taster of horrors provision is made in the smaller and cheaper volume. S. H. C. M. Wendel's Evolution of Industrial Freedom in Prussia, 1845-9 (New York : University Press, 1921), is an informing, but rather bald, thesis of 81 pages with a full 20-page bibliography. The author assumes perhaps more knowledge of Prussian industrial morphology than can be expected in most readers ; and the references to it might mislead. The word factory, for example, seems to be used to cover both Manufaktur and Fabrik, which is rather confusing, as in the statement that ' the Prussian Code (1794) falls within the early period of the Industrial Revolution ' (p. 7), followed by a reference to ' the factory '. There was not much industrial revolution in the Prussia of 1794, and there were few, if any, true Fabriken. This period is, however, outside the body of the essay, which contains a full account of the liberal industrial law of 1845, a sketch of the industrial situation in 1847.-8, and a summary of the reactionary law of 1849. The method of presentation is legal and lacks atmosphere, but the workmanship is thorough. In the elaborate bibliography what is apparently a German translation of M c Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce is quoted as if it were a German authority. J. H. C. In The Nature of Canadian Federalism (University of Toronto Press, 1921) Professor W. P. M. Kennedy argues that the Dominion parliament is a delegation neither from the imperial parliament nor from the provinces, and that the provincial legislatures in turn are delegations from neither imperial nor Dominion parliaments, despite the federal power of disallowing provincial acts. He disagrees with Lord Haldane's remark in 1914, that Canada has no federal system, a metaphysical subtlety difficult for a practical historian to accept. He discerns a difference between con- servative and liberal parties in Canada since 1867, the conservatives caring little for provincial rights and the liberals on the whole maintaining them.