Thomas H. Reed

ANDERSON, WILLIAM (Ed.). Local Government in Europe. Pp. xviii, 453. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939.

are assigned as follows: England, 83 pages; France, 89; Germany, 51; Italy, 31; Russia, 46. The most complete of the essays is Professor Sharp’s admirable treatment of the relatively simple French system. Even Professor Gooch could not be expected to write a realistic and detailed description of the much more complicated English local government in 83 pages. The remaining authors had even less opportunity for a full

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a variety of matters which were never passed as charter amendments but which must be searched out in the volumes of the Georgia laws. The task of anyone attempting to investigate the government of Atlanta is greatly complicated by the fact that no compilation of the code has been made since 1924. A supplement published in 1936 is by no means complete. The city undoubtedly needs a wholly new charter. None really exists at present in the sense of a compact body of fundamental rules upon which the city government is founded. It would be a waste of time to tinker with the existing document. It would be infinitely easier and better to write