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446 446 HARVARD LAW REVIEW does the author attempt a critique of code provisions, or the court decisions interpreting them, and the great struggle which has been waged during recent years by leading members of the New York Bar for a simplified procedure anal- ogous to the EngUsh system of practice under the Judicature Acts is completely ignored. In short, Professor Chapin has given us an instantaneous picture of New York practice under the Code of Civil Procedure as it existed on the date his book went to press. To many that will undoubtedly appeal as a recommendation rather than a detriment, but in view of the present wide- spread agitation for procedural reform in New York this colorless attitude cannot but be disappointing to the thoughtfvd and forward-looking members of the bar. The title "Code Practice in New York" is broader in scope than the content of the work, which is limited to an exposition of the practice under the Code of Civil Procedure, and does not discuss the Code of Criminal Procedure. Professor Chapin has, however, produced a thoroughly useful book, and a refreshing one in that it is distinctly restricted to material pertinent to the subject. George J. Thompson. The Problem of Administrative Areas. By H. J. Laski. Northampton: Smith College Studies, Vol. IV, No. i. First Violations of International Law by Germany. By L. Renault. New York: Longmans. History of Economic Legislation in Iowa. By I. L. Pollock. Iowa: Iowa Historical Society. The Government of the British Empire. By Edward Jenks. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1918. pp. viii, 369. Personal Identification. By Harris Hawthorne Wilder and Bert Went- worth. Boston: The Gorham Press. German Legislation for the Occupied Territories of Belgium. Index to Series X-XIII. Edited by Charles H. Huberich and A. Nicol-Speyer. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Connecticut Workmen's Compensation Commission Digest. Board of Compensation Commissioners. Meriden: The Journal Publishing Com- pany. A Source-Book of Military Law and War Time Legislation. War De- partment Committee on Education and Special Training. St. Paul: West Publishing Company. The League of Nations and Its Problems. By L. Oppenheim. New York: Longmans. The Political Works of James I. With an Introduction by Charles Howard Mcllwain. Harvard Political Classics. Cambridge: Harvard Uni- versity Press. British-American Discords and Concords. Compiled by the History Circle. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.