The following books of the "English Citizen Series," published by Macmillan & Co., may often be profitably consulted: M.D. Chalmers, _Local Government_; H.D. Traill, _Central Government_; F.W. Maitland, _Justice and Police_; Spencer Walpole, _The Electorate and the Legislature_; A.J. Wilson, _The National Budget_; T.H. Farrer, _The State in its Relations to Trade_; W.S. Jevons, _The State in its Relations to Labour_. The works on the English Constitution by Stubbs, Gneist, Taswell-Langmead, Freeman, and Bagehot are indispensable to a thorough understanding of civil government in the United States: Stubbs, _Constitutional History of England_, 3 vols., London, 1875-78; Gneist, _History of the English Constitution_, 2d ed., 2 vols., London, 1889; Taswell-Langmead, _English Constitutional History_, 3d ed., Boston, 1886; Freeman, _The Growth of the English Constitution_, London, 1872; Bagehot, _The English Constitution_, revised ed., Boston, 1873. An admirable book in this connection is Hannis Taylor's (of Alabama) _Origin and Growth of the English Constitution_, Boston, 1889. In connection with Bagehot's _English Constitution_ the student may profitably read Woodrow Wilson's _Congressional Government_, Boston, 1885, and A.L. Lowell's _Essays in Government_, Boston, 1890. See also Sir H. Maine, _Popular Government_, London, 1886; Sir G.C. Lewis on _The Use and Abuse of Certain Political Terms_, London, 1832; _Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics_, 2 vols., London, 1852; and _Dialogue on the Best Form of Government_, London, 1863. Among the most valuable books ever written on the proper sphere and duties of civil government are Herbert Spencer's _Social Statics_, London, 1851; _The Study of Sociology_, 9th ed., London, 1880; _The Man_ versus _The State_, London, 1884; they are all reprinted by D. Appleton & Co., New York. The views expressed in _Social Statics_ with regard to the tenure of land are regarded as unsound by many who are otherwise in entire sympathy with Mr. Spencer's views, and they are ably criticised in Bonham's _Industrial Liberty_, N.Y., 1888. A book of great merit, which ought to be reprinted as it is now not easy to obtain, is Toulmin Smith's _Local Self-Government and Centralization_, London, 1851. Its point of view is sufficiently indicated by the following admirable pair of maxims (p. 12):-- LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT _is that system of Government under which the greatest number of minds, knowing the most, and having the fullest opportunities of knowing it, about the special matter in hand, and having the greatest interest in its well-working, have the management of it, or control over it._ CENTRALIZATION _is that system of government under which the smallest number of minds, and those knowing the least, and having the fewest opportunities of knowing it, about the special matter in hand, and having the smallest interest in its well-working, have the management of it, or control over it._