2. The exclusion of the political criminal seeming inevitableness, they made the acsures of social security, applicable to habitual recidivists, are directed is a just and necessary proviso. 3. The minimum term to be pronounced against such recidivist at the time of his trial shall be at least as great as the term to which he would be sentenced if he were not adjudged a habitual recidivist; but it may be greater by not more than two years. A special commission shall, at the expiration of such minimum, decide whether such prisoner shall be liberated or further detained. In the latter case the prisoner shall have the right to have his case reconsidered at intervals of two years. (It is understood that the judge sentences such recidivist to an indefinite period of which he fixes the minimum, but not the maximum). 4. The Congress is not agreed as to whether the period of preventive detention pronounced against the recidivist shall follow the period of punishment or take its place. * * * * * _The IKV, Anniversary Number._--To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the “Internationale Kriminalistische Vereinigung,” a special number was issued in January of this year. It contains, in addition to the history of its establishment, a symposium as to the effect that its activities have had on the development of the problem of delinquency in its various phases, and in the various countries. The contribution for the United States is written by Prof. Charles R. Henderson of the Chicago University. Most characteristic of the spirit of the IKV is perhaps the paragraph in the introduction to the anniversary number, that reads as follows: “This volume should be a milestone in this sense also, that it shall define the program of the future activities of the Union. In addition to such legal questions as the regulation of international extradition, restitution instead of punishment, and the diminution of the concept of the punishment by imprisonment as the ultima ratio in the struggle against crime, the Union shall pay more attention to the sociological aspect of crime.” * * * * *