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1893
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. NOTES. A RECENT WORK*, by M. Charles Borgeaud, gives a statement of the way in which the constitutions of nearly all the countries of Europe and America have come into being, as well as the provisions for their amendment. The Central and South American States are properly given but a few pages, and the group designated as the Latin and Scandinavian is treated with considerable brevity; to the German States, the United States of America, France and Switzerland, about three-fourths of the book are assigned. There is a large amount of useful and generally accurate information, but the discussion of principles pertains chiefly to superficial rather than to the less obvious and more far-reaching considerations. M. Borgeaud has furnished us with a valuable storehouse of facts, and it is therefore all the more to be regretted that these facts are not made easily accessible by an index. If the author, instead of confining himself to written constitutions, had included a study of the most important political system of all, the English, he would not have implied that it is only in France, Switzerland and the United States that one may study the evolution of modern popular government. In a word, this will be found a convenient book of reference, but it does not contribute much to the subject of political philosophy. ECONOMICS and certain phases of history have become, in the hands of the most recent writers, a science closely related to philosophy, ethics and psychology, and a study of the latter branches has become essential to the best work in the former. Those economists and historians who are teachers of their sciences have a double reason for studying the mental and moral sciences. At present there is a copious literature concerning Herbartian pedagogy being published, and whether or not one accept the conclusions of that school of thought, one can hardly fail to get helpful suggestions from it. Professor Rein, of Jena, last year wrote the " Outlines of Pedagogics, "tan English translation of which has just appeared. The first third of the work, which is devoted to Practical Pedagogics, has little value for the American reader; but the second part, dealing with the (a) Aim * ltablissement et Revision des Constitutions en A mrique et en Europe. Par CHARLES BORGEAUD. Pp. vi., 423. Paris: Thorin, 1893.
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