. Review of reviews and world's work. racter is B. Weedens volume entitled War Govern-ment, Federal and State (Houghton, Mifflin). has worked in the archives of ]\,New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana to good purpose,and has exploited a mass of inij)oitant material bearingon the actual administration of governmental affairs inthose Northern States during the period of conflict. Itis i)eculiarly difficult for tlie present generation tounderstand the relations during that period between DK. HENRY A. COIT. OTHER NEIV BOOKS. 765 the States and the nation. The comm
. Review of reviews and world's work. racter is B. Weedens volume entitled War Govern-ment, Federal and State (Houghton, Mifflin). has worked in the archives of ]\,New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana to good purpose,and has exploited a mass of inij)oitant material bearingon the actual administration of governmental affairs inthose Northern States during the period of conflict. Itis i)eculiarly difficult for tlie present generation tounderstand the relations during that period between DK. HENRY A. COIT. OTHER NEIV BOOKS. 765 the States and the nation. The commonwealths chosenby Mr. Weeden for study are especially interesting inthis respect, since three of them—Massachusetts, Penn-sylvania, and Indiana—retained the same governorsthroughout the war, while New York was perhaps thebest example in the Nortli of tlie tendency, during tliewar period, toward State independence. Mr. Weeden,who is a successful Rhode Island manufacturer, washimself an interested observer of many of the events of. WILLIAM B. WEEDEN. which his book treats. The importance of the supportaccorded to the national government by the loyal Statesof the North can hardly be overestimated, and yet someof the histories of that period have been written as if thegovernment at Washington had maintained throughoutthe war a practically independent existence and hadrelied altogether on its own resources. Mr. Weedensbook should do much to put needed emphasis on asomewhat neglected aspect of the war. ON RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL year or so ago, an American girl who had be-come the Baroness von Zedtwitz was reported to haverenounced the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Churchbecause of certain inconsistencies and moral twistsin those doctrines. This lac y has now stated her casein a book entitled The DoMble Doctrine of the Churchof Rome (Revell), a little volume of only sixty-fivepages, which has aroused considerable discussion inreligious and philosophical circl
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