A Brief Bibliography of Municipal Government 

 in the United States. 



BY FRANK H. HODDER. 



In political science, things near at hand and always with us are 

 slighted, while remote and obscure questions are made the subject of 

 most careful investigation. Taxation is a notable illustration of this 

 fact. There is no act of government which so directly and intimately 

 concerns the whole people, and yet it would be difficult to name one 

 which has received so little careful study. In English there is not a 

 single systematic and comprehensive work on the subject. Similarly 

 with municipal government. With the present distribution of popula- 

 tion this department of government controls more than one-fourth of 

 our whole people in all their most important political relations. There 

 is still no systematic treatise on the subject, but public interest has 

 been aroused, and a large number of lectures, articles in periodicals 

 and scientific journals has been printed in recent years. It is a hope- 

 ful sign that municipal government is beginning to receive careful 

 attention in colleges. For the purpose of assisting college study of 

 the subject, a list of such literature as could be found was printed 

 some time ago. As it has been found useful in several institutions, it 

 has seemed worth while to extend it and bring it down to date. The 

 study of municipal government at home is very properly preceded by 

 a summary of local government generally and by a glance at munici- 

 pal gov-ernment abroad. The order of the references is as follows : 



I. Introductory. 



1. Local Government Generally. 



2. European Cities. 



a. London. 



b. Paris. 



c. Berlin. 



d. Other Foreign Cities. 



II. American Cities. 



1. Legal Status. 



2. Statistics. 



3. Finance. 



4. General Discussions. 



(179) KAN. UNIV. QUAK., VOL. I., NO. 4, APK., 1893. 



