SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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Colonel George W. Goethals is known everywhere for his work in Panama during the construction of the canal; and the publication of a short study by him upon the Government of the Canal Zone (Humphrey Milford for the Princeton University Press, 4s. 6d. net) will attract attention. The book (given originally in the form of lectures) is concerned entirely with the administrative side of the work, and though the Governor of the Canal Zone naturally writes with the greatest authority, the general reader will perhaps complain that he confines himself too rigidly to a dry narrative of the facts. The latter part of the volume is concerned with the new administration just established under the Panama Canal Act of 1912. " While it still continues," we learn, " as a govern- ment by executive order,' it differs from the one in effect during the constructive period in that the President is not permitted to change or in any way modify the orders already in effect, this necessitating action by Congress."
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