The Financial History
of Baltimore

By J. H. HOLLANDER, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance in the Johns Hopkins University.
400 pages, 8vo. Cloth, $2.00.

Thiis work is probably the first exhaustive study of the financial history
of an '\merican city. The author traces in detail the development of munici-
pal expenditure revenue, indebtedness and financial administration through
the several periods of pn-corporate and corporate history. It has been
found dt sirable to make use almost exclusively of original sources, and to
emphasize the influence of administrative change upon fiscal growth. The
narrative propei is supplemented by critical comment and constructive sug-
gestion The volume appears with peculiar timeliness, as Baltimore is in-
augurating a second centenary of corporate existence with a new reform
chaiter. While primarily of local interest, the book appeals to a1! student?
of local finance who wil! recognize many phases of the experience of Bal-
timore as typical of the American city The work is fully equipped with
the requisite statistical ainiendic' •*.

Finances and Administration
of Providence

By HOWARD K. STOKES

464 pages. 8vo. Cloth. Price, $3.50

From The American Monthly Review of Reviews.

\mong the recent studies in municipal government one of the most
serious importance is Dr. Howard Kemble Stokes' account of "The Finances
and Administration of Providence." Regarding Providence as a typical
modern American city, Dr. Stokes traces in outline the social and economic
forces underlying the present structures of local government during the first
one hundred and fifty years of the city's history : and during the last fifty
years, sets forth the effects of personal, political, or corporation motives upon
the development of the administration, and the income and outgo of the city
in more complete detail.