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.A. welcome volume of Selections from the Federalist (Hum- phrey

Milford for the Harvard University Press, 4s. 6d. net) has been put together by Professor W. B. Munro. This famous aeries of newspaper letters, written by Hamilton,

Madison, and Jay in defence of the new American Constitu- tion of 1788, must always remain of deep value to political students. Not only, as Professor Munro says in his useful historical introduction, does the Federalist give instruction in the foundations of the American Constitution, but it contains the first systematic review of the principles of federal govern- ment in general.