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987 BOOK REVIEWS 987 Income and other Federal Taxes. By Henry Campbell Black, LL.D. Fourth edition. Kansas City: Vernon Law Book Company. 1919. pp. xxi, 704. The passage of the Revenue Act of 1918 [1919] required a new edition of Judge Black's standard treatise on the Income Tax. The new law, together with the decisions of two years and the rulings of the Department, has called for a twenty-per-cent increase in the size of the book. The work appears to be done with care, and the statements of the text are sound. If a case that might be discussed is occasionally omitted, it may be laid to the newness of the subject, and to the extreme pressure of time on an author who has to get out two new editions of a book within two years. In short. Black's " Income Taxes " is an excellent book on a puzzling subject of universal interest; and each successive edition makes it more valuable. Barnes' Federal Code: containing all federal statutes of general and public nature now in force. Edited by Uriah Barnes. Charleston, West Vir- ginia: Virginian Law Book Company. 1919. pp. civ, 2831. In the one hundred and thirty years during which Congress has been busily enacting statutes a vast mass of legislation has accumulated, contained in some forty bulky volumes, entitled the "Statutes at Large." So formidable grew the proportions of these books of statutes and so intricate and confused a body of law resulted, — part of the statutes being obsolete and half forgotten and other parts being mutually conflicting, — that as early as 1874 Congress authorized a revision of existing laws, and the publication in a single volume of the Revised Statutes, containing all the unrepealed laws in force up to December i, 1873, to and including volume seventeen of the Statutes at Large. In 1878 a second edition of the Revised Statutes was published. This was fol- lowed in 1 89 1 by a Supplement to the Revised Statutes, covering the period from 1874 to 1 89 1, and comprising the statutes contained in volumes eighteen to twenty-six of the Statutes at Large. In 190 1 a second volume of the Supple- ment was published; but since that time no further Revisions or Supplements have appeared. With a view, however, of simplifying the arrangement and avoiding the per- plexities and confusion of the law as set forth in the Statutes at Large, various collections of federal statutes, conveniently arranged and classified under lead- ing topics, have been published from time to time under the name of United States Compiled Statutes.^ "Barnes' Federal Code," published in 1919, isthe most recent contribution in this field. It comprises a collection of all the United States Statutes of general and public nature in force at the present time, and follows in the main the order and arrangement of previous editions of Compiled Statutes. The marked and admirable quality of the book is its extreme com- pactness, — the great mass of existing statutes being contained in full within the limits of a single volume, attractive in appearance, and easily handled and carried. Through the means of thin paper and excellent typography the size of the book has been reduced to proportions never before attained in any pre- vious edition of United States Statutes. Parallel Reference Tables show the corresponding section numbers in the ^ These collections include the five-volume edition of Compiled Statutes of 19 13 published by the West Publishing Company, the twelve volume edition of Compiled Statutes, 1916, Annotated, published by the same company, fche five volume edition of Annotated Statutes published the same year by T. H. Flood and Company, and the recent single volume edition of Compiled Statutes, 19 18, published by the West Publishing Company, — a compact, though somewhat large and bulky volume.