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Best general references: Forum, vol. 9, p. 326 et. seq; N. A. Rev. vol. 149, p. 52 et seq; McAdoos Speech in Cong. Rec. vol. 20, pt. 2, p. 1436; Report of the Sec. of the Navy...
General References: Andover Review, II, 455 (Nov. 1884); Forum, X, 174 (Oct. 1890); L. P. Banks, "White Slaves"; Quar. Jour. Econ. I, 28 (Oct. '86); New Nation, Dec. '91, Jan. and Feb. '92. Pol. Sci. Monthly XIX, 400 (July 1881); Nation XXXVII 90 and 1' 5 (Aug. 2, 1883), also XXXVIII 136 (Feb. 14, 1884); Harper's LXXIII 250, 450, 571 (July, Aug., Sept., 1886); Fortnightly XX, 562 (Nov. '73) and XLVI...
...February number of the Forum, Professor Francis G. Peabody contributes a thoughtful article on "A Case of Good City Government." Dresden is the model which is described. The first instinct of an American citizen is to act; the first instinct of a German citizen is to obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city...
Professor Peabody has given considerable time to the study of social reform in Germany, and February's Forum contains a long and interesting article by him on that topic. The subject of the vagrant unemployed has been of great importance in Germany. In most towns there is an anti-beggar Society, the members of which pledge themselves to give nothing to beggars. Instead of alms the tramp finds work at a station at the entrance of each town, where by chopping wood he can obtain food and lodging. But as this only served for temporary relief, the "labor-colonies" were...
Professor F. G. Peabody has an article on "The German Labor Colonies" in the February Forum...