PROFESSOR COLBY'S MANUAL OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CONSTITUTION

The recent publication of a second edition of the Manual of the Constitution of New Hampshire, compiled from official sources and edited by Professor James Fairbanks Colby, illustrates one of the Ways in which the College is serving the state.

The first edition of this work was prepared by the head of the department of Political Science pursuant to an order of the Governor and Council for the use of the Constitutional Convention of 1902. That body before adjournment expressed its appreciation of the assistance it had received from this work by a special vote of thanks to its editor, and the Concord Monitor in its issue of December 10, 1902, said that "for thoroughness of research, richness of information and suggestion this Manual will take a high and permanent place among the works of reference bearing upon New Hampshire history, its constitutional development and procedure."

The new edition. of this Manual, which was published in season for use by the Constitutional Convention held last June, contains, some newly discovered material, and is supplemented by numerous statistical tables which will be of large value to students of the constitutional and political history of New Hampshire. Some of these tables, particularly those relating to the condiditions prescribed for the suffrage by each of the forty-eight states in the Union, the offences for which disenfranchisement is a punishment in each of them, and the different methods which they severally prescribe for the amendment of their constitutions, are based upon an exhaustive study of these instruments, and cannot fail to prove of assistance to all students of Political Science.