22 MAY 1915, Page 23

Colonel Lucius Hudson Holt, who occupies the Chair of English

and History in the United States Military Academy, has brought out a political text-book called An Introduction to Use Study of Government (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net). It has been the author's object to set forth the general principles of government, and to show how these general principles are modified in practice by particular States. A special feature of the book is the "illustrative citations" given at the end of each chapter, which consist of quotations from treaties, Acts of Parliament, and other political docu- ments bearing upon the questions under discussion, and which help to give a sense of reality to their otherwise rather abstract character.