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210 210 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. REVIEW. Elements of the Law of Torts. Fourth edition, by Melville M. Bigelow, Ph.D., of Boston University Law School. Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. pp. 382. In this fourth edition Dr. Bigelow has carefully and thoroughly revised and enlarged his former work on the general lines of the edition prepared for the University of Cambridge, England. The introduction and the chapter on Malicious Interference with Contract are entirely new. In the introduction the author defines a tort, and then explains fully each part of the definition. He also makes clear the position which the law of torts occupies with relation to the other sub-divisions of the law, overlapping, as it does, the law of contracts on the one side and the criminal law on the other, but lying, for the most part, between these two extremes. The chapter on Malicious Interference with Contract states concisely and clearly the law on this comparatively recent branch of the subject. The author has carefully classified the special torts, and the same method is used in the treatment of each, and was adopted in the former editions. The precise duty violated in each particular instance is clearly stated, thus emphasizing the tort itself rather than the object of the tort, as is commonly done on books on this subject. Dr. Bigelow, from his long experience as a lecturer in one of our leading law schools, has been enabled to produce in this work a book which will be a great help to any student of the law. LEADING ARTICLES IN EXCHANGES. Law Quarterly Review. Vol. 7. London. Stevens & Son. No. 28. Natural Law and the Bering Sea Question. American and British Sys- tems of Patent Law. Wrongful Intimidation. Yale Law Journal. Vol. I. New Haven. No. 1. Voting-Trusts. Natural Right of Property in Intellectual Production. Secret Ballot. Washington Law Reporter. Vol. 19. No. 44. Dissenting Opinions. Western Law Times. Vol. 2. No. 7. Disbarring of Barristers. The Counsellor. Vol. 1. New York Law School, N. Y. No. 1. Portrait of T. W. Dwight. Evolution of a Debt. Ought Juries to be abolished. Columbia Law Times. Vol. 5. New York. No. 1. Police Power of Federal Union and the States. Certification of a Check. The Green Bag. Vol. 13. Boston. No. 10. Sir Edward Clarke (with portrait). Jury System in Civil Cases. Supreme Court of New Jersey (with portraits). Mediaeval Punishments. Central Law Journal. Vol. 33. St. Louis. No. 17. " Wholly Destroyed " in Fire Insurance Policies. Irish Law Times. Vol. 25. No. 1291. Remedies for Breach of Covenant in Lease. Maintenance of Infants. Laxity of Expression in Wills.