19 APRIL 1890, Page 43

The Federal Government of Switzerland. By Bernard Moses. (Pacific Press

Publishing Company, Oakland, California.)— English readers who compare Mr. Moses's little work with that on the Swiss Constitution which was recently published on this side of the Atlantic, may not be greatly fascinated by it. Mr. Moses is not a brilliant writer, any more than he is a profound thinker, upon constitutional questions ; sometimes, indeed, he is dull and not even lucid. Thus, he might have explained the operation of the Referendum, which at the present moment is the distinguishing feature par excel/sacs of Switzerland as a democracy,