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scious, the student, to realize in himself the social mind, must integrate the experience of the race. Unity with the race through the unity of the race's experience is the fundamental doctrine of the book. And this to the end of the self-realization of the individual. It is worth while to read the book if one should receive only the deepened impres- sion that the individual can realize himself only through social life ; and therefore the problem of education is to relate him intrinsically to that life. The whole educational scheme diverges from this point.

Arnold Tompkins. University of Illinois, Champaign, 111

Cases on American Constitutiofial Law. Edited by Carl Evans Boyd, Ph.D. Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1898. Pp. 11 + 678, 8vo. Cloth, S3.

The scope of this work is briefly and, as it seems to me, fairly expressed in the preface : " In making this collection of cases, it was not my purpose to attempt to rival the notable collection of Professor Thayer. I have had the more modest design of bringing together within the compass of a single volume a sufficient number of the lead- ing decisions of the supreme court of the United States on constitutional law to form the basis of a university course in that subject .... A work of this kind is necessarily a compromise between the desirable and the attainable. The exigencies of space have compelled me to exclude numerous and instructive decisions which many persons may expect to find and which I would have been glad to print. For the further economy of space, arguments have been omitted and the notes are few."

Such a frank statement in the preface puts the reader at once on good terms with the editor and leads him to expect to find in the book just what it contains, namely, a selection of cases which have been notably influential in determining the course of the development of the constitutional law in the United States.

The cases selected are arranged under the following heads : (i) "Validity of Legislation," (2) "Taxation," (3) "Money," (4) "Com- merce," (5) "Police Power," (6) "General (Implied) Powers," (7) "Executive Powers," (8) " War — Martial Law," (9) " Ex post facto Laws and Bills of Attainder," (10) "Impairment of Contracts," (11) "Civil and Political Rights," (12) "The Federal Government and the