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255 REVIEWS, 255 ciary " to Sue, is a valuable contribution to legal science. The book is intended especially for the use of students, and is accordingly equipped with carefully selected references to cases, as much use as possible being made of well known collections of cases on the subject. It is one of the " Students' Series," compact and handy in form. That it will be useful to beginners in the law is beyond doubt; and more advanced students may well find their ideas systematized by a perusal of it. R. G. A Manual of Common School Law. By C. W. Bardeen, Editor of the School Bulletin. Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen. 1896. (Standard Teachers' Library.) pp. iv, 276. This admirable book, first published in 1875, " and for twenty years the only text-book on the subject in general use," has now for the first time been entirely rewritten. In its present form it is of general interest, and, it would seem, of practical necessity to the teacher. Part I., which has to do with school officers, is based almost entirely on New York law, but Part II., which relates particularly to the teacher, " is a safe guide throughout the country both in school and in court." The duties and privileges of teachers, the qualifications required of them, which are continually rising in nearly all the States, their consequently improved status as a class, and the basis on which their authority rests, are defined with clearness and such precision as the subject admits. Interesting to the lay mind is the history of the gradual diminution of the teacher's control over the child, involving as it does a discussion of corporal punish- ment and the increasing public sentiment against it. The author cannot be too highly commended in that, avoiding the common error of trying to draw hard and fast fines, he contents himself with illustrating by copious and apt quotation of legal decisions the various views possible on disputed points, and the application of such rules as admit of definite statement. R. L. R. Handbook on the Law of Persons and Domestic Relations. By Walter C. Tiffany. St. Paul: West Publishing Co. 1896. (Horn- book Series.) pp. xii, 589. The author of this treatise is not the Mr. Tiffany who contributed the excellent volume on Sales to the Hornbook Series. But his work seems to keep well up to the standard set by his namesake. In dealing with the law of Domestic Relations, however, a writer is met by peculiar diffi- culties, owing to the fact that so much of the modern law on the subject, especially with regard to married women, is statutory, and the statutes of the different jurisdictions are so diverse. A full compendium of these statutes would of course be out of the question, and Mr. Tiffany has con- tented himself with producing an excellent summary of the common law rules on the subject, and indicating the general nature of the statutory changes that have been made. His treatment of the topics ordinarily grouped under the head of Domestic Relations is supplemented by chap- ters on Master and Servant and Persons Non Compotes Mentis, written by Mr. William L. Clark, Jr. R. G. d. 34