ing the favor of reading several chapters, and gave me the opportunity of much useful discussion of municipal principles, before these chapters took their final form. I am under obligations to Mr. Richard H. Dana, of Boston, for useful information very kindly supplied. It should be said that in no case are these readings referred to as evidence of an assent to the views advanced in the chapters read, but only as some assurance of my wish to have advice from those most competent to give it. I may add that it has been many years since I first gave some study to city affairs, and had a practical part in their administration,1- facts which may be some excuse for offering this treatise to the public, but cannot justify its defects. DORMAN B. EATON. NEW YORK CITY, June 1, 1899. 1 Notes, pp. 60, 411, 441. CONTENTS How and why we have reached the present municipal condition Several vicious conditions and practices considered and remedies |