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228 Oregonian Railway Decision," "How Law is Taught in Italy," "County Councils in Scotland," "The 'Negligence Clause' in Charter Parties," "Local Government in France," "Lord Fraser," and "The Judicial System of Germany." This new Review must commend itself to the profession, and we are confident will meet with the success which it certainly deserves.

and Brandeis continue the discussion of "Great Ponds" in the April, in an article entitled "The Law of Ponds." The paper is an able reply to the argument of Hon. Thomas M. Stetson, published in the February number of this periodical. Prof. James B. Ames contributes an interesting article on "The Disseisin of Chattels."

for April contains a paper on "Direct Taxes," by Prof. F. M. Burdick. The following statement, made by the writer, will perhaps be novel to many of our readers:—

"Were one, unfamiliar with the Federal decisions on the subject, to be asked what was meant by 'direct taxes' in the United States Constitution, he would undoubtedly answer: 'Taxes assessed upon the property, person, business, income, etc., of those who can pay them.' If his definition were called in question, he would support it not only by quotations from political economists of opposite schools, but from jurists like Judge Cooley (Cooley on Taxation, p. 6). He would be astonished to learn that the Supreme Court had given to these words as used in the Federal Constitution a different—a purely conventional—meaning, limiting them substantially to real estate and poll taxes."

adoption of electricity as a means of execution in capital cases in the State of New York has naturally called forth much discussion upon the subject. In the March number of the, Henry Guy Carlton contributes a paper upon the manner of carrying into effect the sentence of death by means of electricity, and there is also an account of an interesting series of experiments with the "Death Current" at the Edison Laboratory. J. Hugo Grimm has an article, in the same number, on "Insanity as a Defence to the Charge of Crime."

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