HODDER: municipal government in the UNII'ED STA'JES. i8i 



1885. A different view of the present importance of local institutions 

 is taken by Prof. S. N. Patten in an article on the "Decay of State 

 and Local Government," in the first number of the Annals of the 

 American Academy of Political Science. For comparison of Ameri- 

 can and foreign methods, read R. P. Porter's article "Local Govern- 

 ment: at Home and Abroad," Princeton Review, July, 1879, n.s. vol. 

 4, p. 172, and reprinted separately. See two articles on "Local Gov- 

 ernment in Prussia," by F. J- Goodnow in the Political Science Quar- 

 terly, December, 1889, vol. 4, pp. 648-66, and March, 1890, vol. 5, 

 pp. 124-58. For further reference on local self-government see W. F. 

 Foster's Monthly Reference Lists, vol. 2, pp. 23-29, and his pamphlet 

 of References on Political and Economic Topics, p. 24. 



For Canada, see J. G. Bourinot's "Local Government in Canada: 

 an historical study," in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 

 for 18S6, vol. 4., sec. 2, pp. 42-70; printed separately by the pub- 

 lishers, and reprinted, with a letter on the municipal system of Onta- 

 rio, in the 5th series of the Johns Hopkins Studies. A paper on "The 

 Ontario Township," by J. M. McEvoy, printed in 1889, forms No. i 

 of the Toronto University Studies in Political Science. 



2. EUROPEAN CITIES. 



For the purpose of comparison, some study should be made of 

 municipal government abroad. Dr. Albert Shaw gives a general view 

 of "Municipal Government in Great Britain," in Notes Supplement- 

 ary to the Johns Hopkins Studies, No. i, January, 1889, and in the 

 Political Quarterly, June, 1886, vol. 4, pp. 197-229. Of larger works 

 on English municipal history, mention may be made of J. R. S. Vine's 

 "English Municipal Institutions; their Growth and Development 

 from 1835 to 1879," London, 1879. Dr. Chas. Gross has printed a 

 very complete "Classified List of Books relating to British Municipal 

 History," Cambridge, 1891, as No. 43 of Bibliographical Contribu- 

 tions of Harvard University. Foreign experience is of very little 

 assistance in the solution of the general problem of municipal gov- 

 ernment in the United States, but it may be useful in indicating 

 improved methods of administration in particular departments of a 

 city government. Several cities that illustrate different forms of 

 municipal government may be taken as e.xamples. 



a. London. 



Specially excepted from the operation of the Municipal Corporations 



Act of 1835. For outline of government read Chalmers, chap. 10. 



For full description see J. F. B. Firth's Municipal London, 1876, and 



his Reform of London Government and of City (Guilds, ' ' bnperial 



