SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.-For fuller infor mation upon the details of the present workings of the merit system in the Federal service, recourse should be had to the annual reports and other publications of the U.S. civil service commission, which are to be found in the public libraries in all the principal cities in the United States, or which may be had free of charge upon application to the commission. Examinations are announced by means of special bul letins which are posted in Federal buildings throughout the country and are given wide publicity through the press and otherwise. The annual reports of the commission contain full statistics of the results of its work, together with comprehensive statements as to the difficulties encountered in enforcing the law, and the means used to overcome them. In the 15th report, p. 443-485, will be found a very valuable historical compilation from original sources, upon the "practice of the presidents in appointments and removals in the executive service, from 1789 to 1883." In the same report, p. 511-517, is a somewhat compre hensive bibliography of "civil service" in periodical literature in the 19th century, brought down to the end of 1898, see also 22nd and 27th reports.
The statutes and presidential rules affecting the civil service are printed in the report of the civil service commission for 1926 and also in a separate publication which is kept current. The chief new statutes and rules since the war are as follows: the retirement act, May 22, 1920 ; the classification act, March 4, 1923 ; a presidential order, March 3, 1923, setting forth amended preferences to veterans under an act of July II, 1919.
See W. C. Deming, Application of the Merit System in the United States Civil Service; C. R. Fish, The Civil Service and the Patronage (1905) ; William Dudley Foulke, Fighting the Spoilsman (1959) ; Annual Reports of the Civil Service Commission; Lewis Mayers, The Federal Service (1922) ; A. W. Proctor, Principles of Public Personnel Administration (1922) ; T. H. Lay, Foreign Service of the United States (1925) . A. N. Holcombe, State Government in the United States (1917) ; J. M. Mathews, Principles of State Administration (1917) ; W. F. Dodd, State Government (1922) ; W. B. Munro, Municipal Government and Administration (1923). Good Government and other publications of the National Civil Service Reform League. (W. C. D.)