THE NEGRO PROBLEM: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for September, 1913, is devoted to articles on the progress of the negro race during the last fifty years. A. P. C. Griffin, _Select List of References on the Negro Question_ (1906, Library of Congress); R. S. Baker, _Following the Color Line_ (1908)--valuable for the handicaps imposed on the negro in the South; J. M. Mathews, _Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment_ (1909); M. W. Ovington, _Half a Man_ (1911)--status of the negro in New York; T. N. Page, _The Negro_ (1904)--viewed as a Southern problem; A. H. Stone, _Studies in the American Race Problem_ (1908)--discouraging view of the economic capacities of the negro; B. T. Washington, _The Negro in the South_ (1907)--useful for economic matters; and _The Future of the Negro_ (1900); A. B. Hart, _Realities of Negro Suffrage_ (1905); G. T. Stephenson, _Race Distinctions in American Law_ (1910). THE GROWTH OF THE WEST: H. H. Bancroft, _Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth_ (1891-1892), 7 vols.; J. C. Birge, _The Awakening of the Desert_ (1912); C. C. Coffin, _The Seat of Empire_ (1871); Katharine Coman, _Economic Beginnings of the Far West_ (1912), 2 vols.--exploration and settlement; J. H. Eckels, _The Financial Power of the New West_ (1905); F. V. Hayden, _The Great West_ (1880)--resources, climate, Mormons, and Indians; J. S. Hittell, _The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast_ (1882); R. P. Porter and others, _The West_ (1882)--review of social and economic development from the census of 1880; L. E. Quigg, _New Empires in the Northwest_ (1889)--Dakotas, Montana, and Washington; Julian Ralph, _Our Great West_ (1893)--survey of conditions; Joseph Schafer, _A History of the Pacific Northwest_ (1905); W. E. Smyth, _The Conquest of Arid Arizona_ (1900). MONROE DOCTRINE: J. B. Moore, _History of American Diplomacy_ (1905); J. W. Foster, _A Century of American Diplomacy_ (1901); J. H. Latane, _Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America_ (1900); A. B. Hart, _Foundations of American_ _Diplomacy_ (1901); Hiram Bingham, _The Monroe Doctrine_ (1913)--a severe criticism of the Doctrine. THE SPANISH WAR: F. E. Chadwick, _Relations of the United States and Spain_--excellent for diplomatic affairs; H. C. Lodge, _The War with Spain_ (1899)--an interesting popular account; H. D. Flack, _Spanish-American Diplomatic Relations Preceding the War of 1898_ (1906)--a careful analysis of the causes of intervention; George Dewey, _Autobiography_ (1913).