l82 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 



Parliament" Series, London, 1888. For history of the corporation 

 consult W. J. Loftie's History of London, 2d ed., 1884, and the same 

 author's small work, London, published in 1887 in Freeman's series on 

 "English Historic Towns." Both books are based on new material, 

 part of it recently discovered by Bishop Stubbs. For additional ref- 

 erences, see Gomme, pp. 122-134. 



There have been a great many articles on the municipal govern- 

 ment of London in recent periodical literature. Among them may be 

 cited those by W. Newall, Contemporary Review, 1873, vol. 12, p. 73, 

 and 1875, vol. 25, p. 437; W. M. Torrens, Nineteenth Century, 1880, 

 vol. 8., p. 766; Alderman Cotton, Benj. Scott, City Chamberlain, and 

 Sir Arthur Hobhouse in Contemporary Review, 1882, vcl. 41, pp. 72, 

 308, and 404 respectively; the Westminster Review, for January, 1887; 

 Dr. Albert Shaw on "How London is Governed," in the Century, 

 November, 1890, vol. 41, pp. 132-147, and on "Municipal Problems 

 of New York and London," in the Review of Reviews, April, 1892,. 

 vol. 5, p. 282; James Monroe on "The London Police," in the North 

 American Review, November, 1890, vol. 151, pp. 615-629; Sir John 

 Lubbock on "The Government of London," in the Fortnightly Re- 

 view, February, 1892, vol. 51, p. 159; and an article on the "Munici- 

 pal Administration of London," in the Edinburgh Review for April, 

 1892. For a good review of attempts since i860 to regulate the 

 London gas supply, see an article in the British Quarterly for Janu- 

 ary, 1879. 



A Royal Commission on the City Livery Companies reported May 

 28, 1884. See the discussion by Sir R. A. Cross, one of the dissent- 

 ing members of the Commission, in the Nineteenth Century for 1884, 

 vol. 16, p. 47, and by Sir Arthur Hobhouse in Contemporary Review 

 for 1885, vol. 47, p. I. The most important work on the London 

 guilds is William Herbert's "History of the Twelve Great Companies 

 of London," London, 1837. The latest contribution to the subject is 

 Price's "Description of the Guildhall," London, 1887. 



b. Paris. 

 A sketch of its government by Yves Guyot, a member of the 

 municipal council, may be found in the Contemporary Review, 

 March, 1883, vol. 43, p. 439. Dr. Shaw gives an excellent short 

 account in an article entitled "The Typical Modern City" in the 

 Century, July, 1891, vol. 42, pp. 449-66. He cites as the principal 

 authority on the subject Maxime Du Camp's Paris, ses organes, 

 ses fonctions, et sa vie dans la seconde nioitic du dix-neiivieme siecle. 

 An- extended description is also given in a work entitled Adminisira- 

 tion de la Ville de Paris, written by Henri De Pontich under the 



