We are pleased to note the continued success of the
Political Science Quarterly, an American magazine to which, edited as it is by the Faculty of Political Science in Columbia College, there is nothing exactly equivalent in this country. The writers are not pedants, nor do they take a too academic view of things, economic and political. There is an admirable paper in the new number on "The Economic and Social Aspects of Trusts ;" and in the third of a series of articles on "Control of Immigra- tion," Professor Richmond Smith makes some suggestions which might be found quite as useful by our own Government as by that of the American Republic,—for example, that immi- grants should bring with them to the country they intend to settle in, "some sort of certificates (which might be issued by Consular officers) that they are of good character, able to support themselves, possessed of some skilled trade or of pro- perty, or some means of starting in the New World ; that they know where they are going, and what they are going to do when they get there."
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