(2) Two Chapters on the Medieval Guilds of England. An Essay in Economic History, by E. R. A. Seligman, 1884; (3) An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Law, by Harry F. Barrell, 1885 (a systematic treatise, worthy of comparison with the Harvard essays in Anglo-Saxon Law); (4) History of the Law of Aliens, by Abraham C. Bernheim, 1885 Constitutition of the United States in Civil War and Reconstruction, by Archibald M. Dunning, 1885; (6) Political History of the Province of New York, by Herbert L. Satterlee, 1885; (7) A Sketch of the Negro in Politics, especially in South Carolina and Mississippi, by Frederick A. Bancroft, 1885; (8) Conflict of the East and West in Egypt, by John E. Bowen, 1886; (9) Taxation of Labor, by Charles B. Spahr, 1886.

ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.

In an article on the study of the political sciences in Columbia College, originally published in the International Review, April, 1882, there is the following description of the academy by Professor Burgess: "This is a voluntary association, composed of the president of the university, the faculties of law and political science, graduates of the School of Political science, and graduates of the School of Law, who have taken at least two years of the instruction in the School of Political Science, or an equivalent course in some forcign university. It recruits itself annually from these same sources. Its purpose is the cultivation and development, in finest and most minute detail, of the different branches and topics of the political sciences. This organization is the central point of our whole system. Upon it depends, for the most part, the perpetuation and increasing usefulness of our work. Not being a transient body of students, who reach only a certain point before they vanish from our control, but a permanent body of continually-growing scholars, this association forms the productive, everadvancing element in our system. Whatever we may be able to add to the existing stock of political knowledge will proceed from it. Each of its members assumes the obligation to produce at least one original work each year, and read the same before the association at its regular meetings, which production then becomes the property of the academy, and may be published by it for the benefit of the public, provided a majority of the members deem it worthy of the same. From its labors, the library of the political sciences will receive its scientific classification by subjects, a journal of political science will be edited," &c. In the report on the School of Political Science for 1882, Professor Burgess speaks of the academy as a department of the school devoted to research, and he mentions thirteen original works produced by its members during that year: (1) Position and Limits of Political Science; (2) Financial History of the Revolution; (3) Extradition; (4) Cabinet Government; (5) Private Railways and Congressional Regulation; (6) Is Political Economy a Science? (7) South America, from the Congress to the Revolution; (8) History of the Convention System; (9) The Presi

dential Succession; (10) A Review of Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States; (11) The Roman and the Common Law as Products of Aryan Jurisprudence; (12) Position of the Jury in the Modern State; (13) The Electoral College. The academy now num. bers forty active and six honorary members. It meets fortnightly, "on the first and third Mondays of each month," and is likely to furnish the best and most original contributions to

THE POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY.

This magazine, edited by the faculty of the School of Political Science, was instituted in the spring of 1886, and is intended to be an avenue of publication, not only for the best original work of the faculty and academy of the above school, but also for such independent contributions from outside sources as may prove acceptable. The general scope of the magazine, as indicated by its prospectus, is to furnish "a field for the discussion of political, economic, and legal questions. The legal questions treated will be principally questions of public law-constitu tional, administrative, and international. The point of view and the method of treatment will be scientific. At the same time it will be the effort of the editors to have the results of scientific investigation presented in an intelligible manner and in readable form. The topics discussed will be primarily such as are of present interest in the United States. But the scheme of the Quarterly excludes neither European history, which is the history of our own civilization, nor contemporaneous events in any part of the world which throw light upon the prob. lems and tendencies of our own country."

Several numbers of the new Quarterly have already appeared. A large proportion of the articles are written by representatives of Columbia College, and may be generally characterized as a scholarly treatment of political and economic topics of scientific and semi-popular interest. The reviews of current literature in the political and economic fields are valuable to the special student, and the annual bibliographies of history, politics, economics, and public law, with descriptive notices and references to the best criticism, will prove very helpful.