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arid the Panic of 1893": Prof. John Dewey, of Michigan University, examines anew "Austin's Theory of Sovereignty"; Mr. C. M. Piatt contrasts and compares " Positive Law and Other Laws"; Mr. Edward Porritt, the veteran English journalist, de scribes the earlier and the current phase of "The Revolt against Feudalism in England"; Mr. G. H. Blunden, the British expert, contributes the first in stallment of an elaborate study of " British Local Finance"; and Prof. W. G. Ashley, of Harvard, sums up the latest knowledge as to " The Village in India." Some forty book-notices close the number.

Members of the legal profession will read with in terest the paper by Professor Russell H. Curtis, of the Kent Law School at Chicago, on " Classification of Law," published in the March Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Professor Curtis has devoted much time and study to this subject, and has previously pub lished shorter descriptions of his proposed new classi fication. The present paper gives the classification in its complete form, and fully explains Professor Curtis' ideas on the subject.

The March number of the Review of Reviews contains an article by the editor, Dr. Albert Shaw, on the Constitutional Convention, which is to meet at Albany, N.Y., in May of this year. After ex plaining the constitutional provision that an oppor tunity for amendments be given every twenty years. Dr. Shaw gives details of the forthcoming meeting of the delegates who were elected in response to the vote of 1886 for a convention, and then reports an important interview which he himself has had with a delegate to this convention, who is in an especial position to forecast its action. This delegate out lines, in answer to Dr. Shaw's queries, the general scope of the convention's work and its probable action on certain specific questions of the highest im portance, such as the provision for a Greater New York, a reform of the State Judiciary system, the in troduction of proportional representation, educational reforms, certain changes in city governments, uniform charters, city home rule and various other city re forms.

BOOK NOTICES. LAW.

A Treatise on the Law of Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Maritime. By Leonard A. Jones. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bos-

ton and New York, 1894. sheep. $12.oo net.

Two vols.

Law

When the first edition of this work appeared some five years ago, it was at once recognized by the legal profession as a most exhaustive and thorough treatise upon Liens, and it has since maintained its position as the standard work upon the subject. Like all of Mr. Jones' works, these volumes evidence a thorough knowledge of his subject and a careful attention to the minutest details, which renders his books of the greatest value and assistance to the practising lawyer. The author is not satisfied with a mere statement of legal principles, but, as he himself says, he has deemed it his province to find out the uncertainties in the law, and, if he could refer them to some prin ciple, or to classify them, and at least to state them, if he could do no more. The result is a most satis factory and reliable treatise. In this new edition all the cases bearing upon the subject, decided within the last five years, have been incorporated into the text and the notes. Important changes and addi tions have been made in that part of the work relat ing to Mechanics' Liens, the number of new citations added on this particular branch of the law being more than twelve hundred. In its present form the book will be gladly welcomed by the profession, and will continue to hold its well deserved position as the authority upon the law of Liens. The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, in cluding biographical notices of deceased judges of the highest court, and lawyers of the Province and State, and a list of names of those now living. By Charles H. Bell. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1894. Cloth. $6.oo. The Bar of New Hampshire has always been a remarkable one and has furnished, in proportion to its size, more "legal giants" than any other Bar in the United States. Such names as Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason are household words among the profession, and Ichabod Bartlett, Jeremiah Smith and Richard Fletcher, while perhaps not so widely known, were their peers and worthy opponents. Mr. Bell has gathered a vast deal of valuable inform ation concerning the New Hampshire Bar, and these biographies are exceedingly interesting not only to the lawyers of the Granite State, but to the profession at large. It is astonishing to see how, from the earliest times to the present day, the high standard of the New Hampshire Bar has been maintained. It almost seems as if inspiration were drawn from the rocky giant hills and the pine woods of this New England State. The list of New Hampshire lawyers is a long