THE MECHANISM OF THE MODERN STATE. .11y Sir John A.
II. Marriott, M.P. (Clarendon Press. 2 N,ols. 425.). :- Sir John Marriott lectured on history at Oxford long before he became. a busy legislator. His dual experience has helped him in compiling this elaborate " treatise on the sciewe and . art of government," which contains a mass of information and much instructive comment relating not merely to Great - Britain but also to the Dominions, the United States. Franco and other countries. We should select as specially valuable the chapters on the House of Commons and the Estimates, on Second Chambers, on the War Cabinet and why it proved unsuitable to peace conditions and on the Civil Serviec mot its relations to the Cabinet, and to the ordinary citizen. The author's use of the comparative method is particularly helpful in these matters; is well to be reminded that the Brit HE way of solving tese -practical problems of government in a complex modern State is not the only way nor necessarily the best way. Sir John Marriott has not been able to incorporate the results of last autumn's Imperial Conference in his account. of the organization of the British Ceminonwealth of Nations. We may note, too, that the Prohibition amendment to the American Constitution was not the last. The Nineteenth Amendment of 1920 gave full woman's suffrage.
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