An excellent short account of the government of Berlin is given by Dr. Rudolph Gneist, a member of the municipal council since 1848, in the Contemporary Review, December, 1884, vol. 46, p. 769. See also the report on the “Administration of the City of Berlin” in Foreign Relations for 1881, p. 487, made by Assistant-Secretary of Legation Coleman at the request of Hon. Andrew D. White, then Minister to Germany. Also the articles by Prof. R. T. Ely in the Nation for March 23 and 30, 1882, vol. 34, pp. 145 and 267. In the Nation for September 25, 1892, vol. 55, p. 221, Mr. Leo S. Rowe combats some of Dr. Shaw’s generalizations respecting municipal government in Europe, taking Berlin as his text. The Magistracy of Berlin publish reports at irregular intervals. The first, _Bericht ueber die Vervaltung der Stadt Berlin, in den Jahren 1829 bis inclu. 1840_, Berlin, 1842, and the second, _in den Jahren 1841 bis incl. 1850_, Berlin, 1853, are of considerable importance. A third, published in 1863, covers the period from 1851 to 1860, and a fourth, printed in 1882, covers the period from 1861 to 1876. The Director of the Statistical Bureau of the city publishes annually _Das Statistische Jahrbuch der Stadt Berlin_. The present municipal system of Prussia dates from the reorganization of the municipalities by Stein and Hardenburg, November 19, 1808. See Seeley’s Life of Stein, part 5, chap. 3, and Meier’s _Reform der Vervaltung-Organization unter Stein und Hardenberg_, Leipsig, 1881. The present “Municipal Corporation Act,” _Stædte-ordnung_, was passed May 30, 1853. See Kotze, _Die Preussischen Stædte Verfassungen_, Berlin, 1879, and Backoffner, _Die Stædteordnungen der Preussischen Monarchie_, Berlin, 1880, and especially Eugen Leidig’s _Preussisches Stadtrecht_, Berlin, 1891. See also the articles on local government in Prussia cited above. _d._ _Other Foreign Cities._ Statistics of all important German cities are given in Dr. M. Neefe’s _Statistisches Jahrbuch Deutscher Stædte_, Erster Jahrgang, Breslau, 1890. Financial statistics of the great European cities are given in Joseph Körösi’s _Bulletin Annual de Finance des Grandes Villes_, Dixième Année, Budapest, 1890. A short account of the municipal government of Vienna is given in a report by Mr. Kasson in Foreign Relations for 1879, p. 64 and an extended account in Dr. Felder’s _Die Gemeinde-Vervaltung der Reichs-haupt und Residenzstadt Wien_, Vienna, 1872. For the government of Budapest see Dr. Shaw’s article in the Century, June, 1892, vol. 44, pp. 163-179. Prof. F. G. Peabody gives a sketch of Dresden in an article entitled “A Case of Good City Government,” in the Forum, April, 1892, vol. 13, p. 53.