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 Index to Periodicals removal of the state capital of Oklahoma and the equality of states; Bailey v. Alabama, in which a statute was construed as establishing peonage; and Muskrat v. U. S., turning on the distinctions between governmental powers, the Supreme Court refusing jurisdiction in the Cherokee land claims. The Gompers and Standard Oil cases are treated as of more importance from the point of view of political science than from that of constitutional law. "Statesmanship and the Universities." By Clayton Colman Hall. Forum, v. 48, p. 701 (Dec.). "The solution of social and political problems can only be worked out by the scientific study of humanity and of human political, social and industrial institutions. It cannot be discovered either in the laboratory or the hospital. But it lies with those who have learned in political science to look beneath the surface for the cause, and to recognize that, as in medicine, a cure can be wrought, not by treating the symptoms with palliatives, but only by attacking the disease." Great Britain. "The Legal Status of Sover eignty." By W. W. Lucas. 24 Juridical Review, 185 (Oct.). "The sovereignty under the British Constitu tion, looked at from a legal point of view, is a graded authority. It embraces, firstly, an activ ity which possesses unqualified authority to create rights and duties. This function enjoys in law plenary authority, and therefore in per forming its office it is free from all legal liability. . . . The second function of sovereignty is represented by a discretionary activity to which the laws of the creative are committed. It supplements them with further legislation of a subordinate nature and with administrative rules, and it organizes the whole down to the point of overt action. . . . The third function is simple performance. It possesses no discre tion as to what the duty shall be, but a minor discretion only as to how it shall be performed." Ireland. "The Present Status of the Home Rule Question." By William T. Laprade. American Political Science Review, v. 6, p. 524 (Nov.). It is considered not unlikely that the present bill will meet the fate of its predecessors of 1886 and 1893, but that the majority of the British electorate will not seriously oppose the bill, and that the adoption of home rule in some form is only a matter of time. See Fourteenth Amendment, Judicial Review of Statute Legislation, Judiciary Organization. History. "The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson." I, "The Causes of Impeachment," by Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. II, "Emancipation and Impeachment," by Gen. John B. Henderson. Century, v. 85, p. 186 (Dec). Two articles which lay bare the political back ground and personal motives behind the attemp ted impeachment of Johnson. Gen. Henderson,

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one of the survivors of the Senate which wit nessed the proceedings, says: "It would be well if those who are urging the 'recall' as a general panacea for mistakes and dissatisfaction in the working of elections would study the personal motives and partisan manoeuvrings which were the soul and body of this enormity of injustice in American history." "The Monroe Doctrine Abroad in 1823-24." By William Spence Robertson. American Politi cal Science Review, v. 6, p. 546 (Nov.). "Luther Martin and the Trials of Chase and Burr — The Impeachment of Justice Chase." By Hon. Ashley M. Gould. 1 Georgetown Law Journal 17 (Nov.). Homicide. See Comparative Jurisprudence. Indeterminate Sentence. See Penology. Insurance. "Purchasers and Mortgagees as Assignees of Fire Insurance Policies." By James Edward Hogg. 24 Juridical Review 228 (Oct.). International Law. "The Law of Nations." By Alpheus Henry Snow. 6 American Journal of International Law 890 (Oct.). "It seems, therefore, that the time has come when supernational law must supplant that which is called "international law." ... As a true supernational law must protect and pre serve the nations as well as regulate them in the common interests, it is consistent with such a law that the nations should decline to submit to judicial settlement any questions, which if decided adversely to them, would result in their destruction." See History, International Prize Court, Mon roe Doctrine, Panama Canal Tolls, Spitzbergen. International Prize Court. "The Protocole Additional to the International Prize Court Convention." By George C. Butte. 6 Ameri. can Journal of International Law 799 (Oct.). "That a uniform body of substantive prize law will be applied by the units in this system in all parts of the world follows rationally. . . . The courts of prize of the various nations re garded as courts of first instance sustain, in effect, the same relation to the International Court of Prize as inferior municipal courts to their court of last resort." See International Law. International Relations. "North America and France," II. By Gabriel Hanotaux. North American Review, v. 196, p. 792 (Dec). "The French civil law is the fruit of the exper ience of a very old nation, itself the inheritor of the two great civilizations of antiquity. Such is the fact. It expresses the course of living which had been preferred by hundreds of genera tions and, like the French language itself, is the result of long and well-considered usage. "With regard to the relations of husband and