Editorials.

The article focuses on several socio-political issues. The diversity of character and interest in the smallest of the colonies is another illustration of the truth taught by Greek and Italian history, that it is not always the largest states that afford the most instructive data for political history. The revolution which will occur in the laws of Germany at the beginning of the year 1900 is the subject of an article in the October number of the periodical Forum. The Roman judicial code has been recognized as the common law of Germany since the close of the fifteenth century.