The report of the New York Commission on “A Plan for a New Government of New York,” 1876, is valuable, as are also several of ex-Mayor Hewitt’s messages.  Prof.  Gniest has a suggestive article on Berlin, the best governed city in the world, in the Contemporary Review, Vol. 46.  Shaw’s article on Glasgow in the Century, March, 1890, is likewise instructive.  Spofford’s City of Washington and Growth of United States Cities is interesting.  Ely’s Taxation in American States and Cities contains many excellent suggestions for improvements in our methods of municipal administration.  See also Ely’s Problems of To-day.  Putnam is publishing a series entitled Great Cities of the Republic.  The Stories of New York, Boston and Washington have thus far appeared.

Government Revenue and Expenditure.

Federal and State finance reports furnish official information.  Seligman’s Finances of American States and Cities, published by the American Statistical Association, 1890, is valuable, and furnishes excellent statistical and tabulated information.  Ely’s Taxation in American States and Cities contains much information.  Spofford’s article on The Budget in Lalor’s Encyclopaedia is extremely instructive.  H.C.  Adams’ Public Debts is one of the ablest financial works in the English language.  The proper administration of Federal and State finances is discussed, and the subject of national and local debts considered.  Bolle’s Financial History of the United States, in three large volumes, is an able work, and can be consulted with profit.

Census Bulletins, Nos. 6 and 7, describe respectively The Indebtedness of States in 1880 and 1890, and The Financial Condition of Counties.

Money.

See reports of the Director of the Mint, and of the Comptroller of the Currency.  See also Knox’s United States Notes; Simmer’s History of American Currency, and text-books on Political Economy.

Public Lands of the United States.

Sato’s History of the Land Question in the United States, Johns Hopkins University Studies, Series IV, is the best book for reference.  The official source of information regarding the public lands is Donaldson’s enormous report of 1341 pages on The Public Domain:  its History with Statistics (1884), published by the government (House Executive Documents 47, Part 4, 46th Congress, 3d Session.) For a short account of The Disposition of Our Public Lands, see an article by A.B.  Hart, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, January, 1887.  Statistical tables are appended to this article.

Reconstruction.

See Johnston’s article in Lalor’s Encyclopaedia, and authorities there cited.  Also McPherson’s History of Reconstruction, Dunning’s United Stales Constitution in Civil War and in Reconstruction, and W.E.  Foster’s References on the United States Constitution in Civil War, about to be published (1891).