The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-15
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The number OF volumes issued during the
week ending March IL, 1897, is 1910, daily
average of 495.
Among the additions of the past week are
Book and Heart, by t. W. Higginson, OIL. .294
ThroughUnknown African Countries, by A. ID.
Smith, 403334; Robert the Bruce, by Sir H.
Maxwell, 207l.35 Letters From Constantinople,
by Mrs. Max Muller l061.1i; The Industrial
Evolution of the Unitd States, by G. ID.
Wright, s0a36s.
In connection with the appointment of a
commission the revision of the constitu-
tion of Rhode Island the following references
may be given: Federal and State Constitu-
tions, Colonial Charters, ETC., edited by b. p.
Poore, ls7S 2 ", sl7s.l2; American Statute
Law, 1886, by f. j. Stimson, sl8 1871,
and the Supplement to the American
statute law: OssS,): sl6.l5.2; Amer.
can Constitutions-The Relations of the Three
Departments Adjusted by Century, by
II. Davis, Johns Hopkins University, Studies
in Historical andz Political Science, v. g.
p. 467- -530 $50 l.3; Introduction TO the Constitu
tional and Political History of the Individual
States, by Professor j. II. Jameson, Johns
Hopkins University Studies, v. l. p. lsl,
S3OL4 American State Constitutions by II.
Hitchcock. 1887, $3.50; Modern. State Con-
stitutions. by George NJ Pavey. Magazine Of
American History, v. %, p. 152-59 250, 2. %;
The Origin and Development of Written Con-
stitutions, by @. Borgeand, Political Science
Quarterly, v. z, p. 6l3, 850.5.7;: First. State
Constitutions, by William G. Morey, Annals
of the American Academy of:Politcal and So
cial Science, ". 4, y. 20l-32, s407.4. In the
same magazine, p. ss3-9O3 there is an article
by Gamsliel Bradford entitled Reform Of Our
State Governments, and there is one on Con-
stitutional Home Rule for Cities william Fl.
Hotchlxiss, in the Review of Reviews, v. 9, D.
es2, 054.7 The authoritative work on con-
stitutionai conventions is that by the late
Judge j. A. Jameson, The Constitutional Con-
vention, in its fourth and final edition, 1887,
SO1S.2lb. See also Constitutional Conventions,
by G. c. Beaman, Jr., North American Review,
v. lOl, p 6l6 1887 l0i. Detailed discussions of
several of the state constitutions are found in
the study 10y H. N.Thorpe in the Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science, v. 2. p. li5 2O1, s40.7.2; and in that
of Amasa NJ. Eaton, from the Harvard Law
Review, May 25, 1892, s07s.S0. On constitu-
tional revision in this state see Some
Thoughts on the Constitution OF Rhode
Island. by Judge Durfec, 1884, 801s. 32: The
methods of Changing the Constitutions of the
states, by the iatc Juuge brauley teu. 1881,
s77s 25; Memorandum on the Legal Effect of
Judicial Opinions, by James Bradley Thayer,
1885, sO6.55. On constitutional revision i'm the
state of New York see the Nation, v. SO, y.
2s6, $50 1858; A New Constitution for New
York, Review OF Reviews, v. o, p. 291, 05a73.9;
The New York Constitutional Convention,
Public Opinion, v. II, p. 1907, 052.3l.17; Pub.
lie Affairs in Now York. Review of Re
views, v. II, p. $50. 054.3i.17; The Ballot in
New York, by A. G. Bernheim, Political
Science Quarterly, v. 4, y. 130, s50.5.4; Now
Yorlx's Constitutional Convention, by Seth
Low, Political Science Quarterly, v. T. p. $50.
SjO.54; Ideas on Constitutional Revision, by
j. Il. Uhe, Political Science Quarterly. v. o.
H. 1, s50.5.e A valuable resume OF the chief
features OF the successive constitutions OF
New York since i776, by J. II. Dougherty is
in the Political Science Quarterly, v. Q, p.
isq and v. T. y. 23O, SO.53A The library has
also the text OF the proposed revised constitu-
tion Of New York. also the Address 20 the
People. IL has also the new South Carolina
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