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420 REVIEWS OF BOOK every page something with which we disagree, or which is untrue, or which is inapplicable at the present day, although it may have been true twenty years ago.- We are grateful for an Introduction to the volume by Professor Patrick Gedde8 in which he has given us with singular clearness the difference between the paleoteolmic or early Industrial age, with its confused jumble of productive efforts and social neglect, and the neetechnic industrial order in wbieh the greatest advantage is from the triumphs of mechanical invention zing the whole of society that social losses and benefits well distributed. to b? obtained by ?o organi- are eliminated H. S. Jayess The Governanc? of India, being a commentary on the Government of lndi? Acts of 1915 and 1916, with ?lditional chapters on Indian Loc?l Government, the Indian Army, Indian Finance and the Native States of India. By K.T. SHAH, B. Se. (Eeon., London). Bombay: Ram Chandra Govind & Son. 1917. Price Rs. $. The fr?luent appearance of books rution or A. dministration shows that beiug taken by Indian scholars in on the Indian Consti- new interest is now the study of Indian constitutional and administrative questions. Such has been facilitated by the ensctmenL of the Statutes of 1915 ?nd 1916 which back-ground upon which to trace political institutions. In an Introduction of 2? the study Consolidation our author takes as his the outlines of Indian pages author describes what he calls "the special difficulties of an Indian writer" on the Indian Constitution. If, however, he had eousultsd certain recent publications, many of his so-called "difiieultiss" would have disappeared, and he would not have made little of "indigenous writers" as only miaistering to the needs of "the undergraduate world ". is divided into twelve chapters with the different chapters of is ?;o take a few sections of The body of the book corresponding, more or less, ?he Act. The author's plan to follow them up with long commentaries. chapters deal respectively with the Home the Secretary of State, the Governor-Oenersl the Act and The twelve (?overnmen?, Council, Local Government, the Indian Legislatures, ths Public