Howard, Burt Estes. German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
In a discussion which aims “to give a broad view of the German government, explaining clearly the main features of the Imperial constitution and the salient doctrines of German constitutional law,” the author gives us “systematic, accurate, unadorned law.”
“The title of the book has raised larger expectations than the contents will satisfy. Thruout the work there are abundant evidences of a full acquaintance with the best German publicists, a careful study of the original legal documents and a persistent tho sometimes belabored accuracy. As things stand now it must go on our shelves with our Bryce, Bodley and Bagehot.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 510w.
“The book, as a whole, will prove a convenient manual of the subject viewed in its strictly constitutional aspect.”
+ Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 90w.
“The subject has now been further illuminated in very serious and thorough-going fashion by Dr. Howard. Clearly, compactly, intelligently, discriminatingly, but not very picturesquely, he describes for us the founding of the Empire, the individual States which compose it, the position of the Emperor, the Bundesrath, the Reichstag as the voice of the German people.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 400w.
“He has done well what he chose to do, and his readers may be confident that they are getting from his book the same impressions of the fundamental provisions of the constitution which they would derive from the elaborate treatises of von Rönne, Laband, Meyer, Schulze, Haenel, Zorn, and the rest.” J. H. R.