"Colonial Civil Service"

Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell '77 has recently published an important book on "Colonial Civil Service" which contains a large amount of particularly timely information. After an introduction showing the necessity for a special civil service in tropical or Asiatic possessions, Mr. Lowell treats of the historical development of the English, Dutch and French colonial civil services in full detail, pointing out the merits and defects of the various systems. The best plan for the United States, according to Mr. Lowell, is to found a national colonial training college on the same general lines as West Point and Annapolis but specially modelled after the old East Indian College, at Hadleybury, England.