In attempting to regulate the activities of these corporations most states have passed special laws and established special commissions. In consequence, the newspapers are full of accounts of prosecutions under these laws and by these commissions and the student should be encouraged to read them. The national government, too, has passed at least one law, the famous Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, with a view to regulating these great corporations. More recently still, the Bureau of Corporations was established, while at the present time new legislation on this subject is pending in Congress. Yet with all the agitation and with all the legislation, it cannot be said that the problem is even on the verge of being settled. That will take, in all probability, at least another generation. The Literature of the Subject. To recommend one or two, or even half a dozen books on this period of American history is impossible. Most of the discussion is evanescent, and books are antiquated almost before they have been printed. For much of the subject matter to be discussed the student should be sent to such manuals as (1) the American Annual Cyclopedia, and (2) the Statesman’s Year Book. Much valuable material can also be gleaned from (3) the annual almanacs published by many of the larger daily papers. For statutes and government regulations, the student should consult (4) MacDonald’s “Select Statutes,” 1861-1898. Comprehensive and comparatively recent discussions of these subjects will be found: (a) on trade unions, in (1) Ely’s, “The Labor Movement in America;” (2) Adams and Sumner’s “Labor Problems,” and (3) Commons’ “Trade Unionism and Labor Problems;” (b) on railroads, in (1) Hadley’s “Railroad Transportation;” (2) Haines’ “Restrictive Railroad Legislation,” and (3) Ripley’s “Railroad Problems;” (c) on municipal public service corporations, in (1) Bemis’ “Municipal Monopolies,” and (2) Foote’s “Municipal Public Service Industries;” (d) on industrial corporations, in (1) Jenks’ “The Trust Problem;” (2) Ely’s “Monopolies and Trusts;” (3) Ripley’s “Trusts, Pools and Corporations,” and (4) Tarbell’s “History of the Standard Oil Company.” Beside all these the student will find much that is valuable in the current reviews and journals, at least one of which should be in every school library. English History in the Secondary School C. B. NEWTON, Editor. VIII. THE LATER HANOVERIANS. The Industrial Revolution.