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The article presents information on various reports and research papers. The Report of the National Resources Committee entitled "Regional Factors in National Planning and Development" presents a thought-provoking, excellent and concise discussion of certain major problems facing American federalism today, the solution of which is not only necessary under modern conditions but hardly susceptible to attack from the old point of view of state versus national jurisdiction. Charles O. Fenwick, in his paper "Cases on International Law" steered a middle course among the opinions as to what should go into a case book. "La Victima," by José Heriberito López is the easy and intensely interesting narrative of two dictatorships in Venezuela. Douglas Waples and Harold D. Lasswell's "National Libraries and Foreign Scholarships" intends to show especially the resources of national libraries in the field of social science as well as to evaluate the various libraries on a comparative basis as far as financial aspects, political implications and books of certain countries are concerned.

This article focuses on the information related to various universities. W.B. Cole, Associate Professor of Accounting, attended the annual C.P.A. convention at Little Rock, October 28. D.Y. Thomas, head of the History Department, gave a paper on "Liberal Arts Education in the South" on November 10, 1938 before a regional meeting of the Association of Americal Colleges at Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas. The Hill Memorial Library of the Louisiana State University has recently obtained the entire private library of Professor Richard T. Ely, president of the Institute of Economic Research and retired professor of economics of the University of Wisconsin. Lynden Mannen, of the Department of Government, is on leave of absence for this year, while studying toward his Doctor's degree at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Thomas C. Donnelly, Professor of Government, travelled through ten European countries during the summer, studying international affairs.

The article discusses manuscript sources in American radicalism. Scholars interested in American radicalism must be prepared to travel widely if they expect to inspect manuscript sources. Virtually every state, almost every university library of any stature, has some such holdings. Socialists, and other radicals, were prolific writers of letters, memoranda, speeches and pamphlets. They also tended to keep extensive minutes of meetings of branches, committees, national boards, and even of factions. Moreover, most Socialists had a sense of history and preserved their records. Unfortunately, there is no single repository for this Socialist material. At one time it was expected that the Tamiment Institute-then called the Rand School-Library in New York would house the material. But Socialists, in the course of human events, split into innumerable factions, and the leaders of different factions gave their papers to various libraries some of them thousands of miles apart. There were also geographic reasons for the dispersion: the early Socialists of the Nineteenth century lived in Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, and (after 1880) California.