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THE PRINCIPLE OF OFFICIAL INDEPENDENCE. By Robert Macgregor Dawson. (P.

S. King. 109. 6d. net.)—Dr. Dawson's monograph was written as a thesis for the London D.Sc., and is now published under the auspices of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His examples are almost all derived from the recent history of Canada, and are not only interesting in themselves but instructive in com- parison with our own problems. As a practical study of officialism in democratic communities his book is both useful and entertaining.