Book Reviews : Manual of Government Publications: United States and Foreign. By EVERETT S. BROWN. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1950. Pp. ix, 121. $2.75.)

• Author: H. Kirkpatrick
• Published date: 01 September 1951
• Date: 01 September 1951
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400341
• Subject Matter: Articles

532

To

emphasize

problems

of

citizenship

on

the

local

level

and

en-

courage

greater

student

participation

in

home

community

affairs,

the

authors

have

placed

at

the

end

of

each

chapter

a

section

entitled

&dquo;Projects

’

and

Study

Outlines.&dquo;

These

problems

require

field

investigation

of

various

local

governmental

operations,

and

a

report

and

evaluation

in

class.

Sound

advice

is

offered

to

the

instructor

regarding

the

use

of

these

projects.

The

foreword

states

that

&dquo;it

is

no

longer

completely

realistic

to

study

city

government

separately

from

county

government.&dquo;

In

the

text atten-

tion

has

been

given

to

the

interrelationships

of

local

units,

but

the

major

discussion

of

&dquo;other

local

governments&dquo;

is

found

in

the

appendix

materials.

One

might

question

the

heavy

emphasis

on

municipal

administration

and

functions

(sixteen

of

the

twenty-six

chapters),

and

wish

for

more

discussion

of

the

problems

of

city

growth,

relations

with

the

state

and

federal

governments,

the

government

of

metropolitan

areas,

and

the

legal

aspects

of

municipal

government.

There

are

no

references

at

the

end

of

chapters

and

there

is

no

general

bibliography.

Of

particular

interest

to

the

reviewer

are

the

summary

statements

of

the

progress

of

local

government

since

the

beginning

of

the

century

and

the

challenge

of

the

future

(pp.

599-601),

and

the

excellent

chapter

on

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FRANK

M.

STEWART.

University

of

California

at

Los

Angeles.

Manual

of

Government

Publications:

United

States

and

Foreign.

By

EVERETT

S.

BROWN.

(New

York:

Appleton-Century-Crofts,

Inc.

1950.

Pp.

ix,

121.

$2.75.)

For

&dquo;practical,

limited&dquo;

use,

which

is

all

the

author

claims

for

his

book,

Professor

Brown’s

Manual

of

Government

Publications

is

admirable.

It

provides

a

good

survey

of

the

field,

without

swamping

the

student

with

too

many

details.

There

are

two

minor

points

which

should

be

made,

however.

De-

pository

libraries,

even

those

which

want

everything

published

by

the

Government,

do

not

receive

all

the

publications

listed

in

the

Monthly

Catalog.

Depository

items

have

a

little

black

dot

next

to

their

titles.

The

others

must

be

claimed

from

the

issuing

agencies.

Maybe

the

library

claim-

ing

them

will

get

them,

and

maybe

not.

Furthermore,

the

Monthly

Catalog,

does

not,

and

literally

cannot,

include

all

the

processed

(mimeo~

graphed

and

multigraphed)

materials

issued

by

various

field

agencies.

The

manual

needs

an

index.

Even

if

the

index

listed

only

the

major

titles

discussed

in

the

text,

it

would

be

helpful.

The

table

of

contents

is

quite

full,

but

even

so,

an

index

would

add

value

to

a

new

edition

of

the

vniiimp

--

--

H.

KIRKPATRICK.

University

of

Utah.