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Helen H. Gardener's summing up of the cam paign of legislation on the protection of young girls — the so-called "age of consent" question — is one feature of the September Arena that will be sure to attract the widest attention in the three States dealt with in this issue. She treats of the legislation se cured, raising the age of protection in Colorado, Ne braska and Missouri, and the full reports of the proceedings will afford both those in favor of the movement and those opposed to it an opportunity to weigh the arguments pro and con. The Century for September contains a new por trait of Henry Clay, accompanying a paper of family recollections collected by Miss Madeleine McDowell, a granddaughter of the statesman. Of this portrait, which was painted by Matthew Harris Jouett, Miss McDowell says: " It hung for many years in the home, near Lexington, of another of Mr. Clay's ad mirers. Hut in Kentucky, where the possession of the blue-grass land is a fruitful source of litigation, and of bitter and enduring enmities as well, even po litical sympathies were not always able to prevail against the strain. The inevitable lawsuit occurred, and the portrait was banished to the garret. After ward it was given to a friend, who, on inquiring about it, was told that it should never again darken the walls where it had hung. This gentleman, before the humor of the owner should be changed, put the picture into his buggy, and drove with it to his home in a neighboring county."

BOOK NOTICES. History of the Law of Real Property in NewYork. By Robert Ludlow Fowler. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1895. $3.00 net. This work of Mr. Fowler is valuable not only as a legal treatise, but as an historical contribution upon a subject of exceeding interest. Beginning with the law of real property in New Netherland, the growth and development of the law in New York is traced down to and through the revised Statutes. New York lawyers will find the work of much practical value, and others cannot fail to be deeply interested in it. American Electrical Cases, Vol. Ill (18891892). Edited by William V. Morrill. Mat thew Bender, Albany, N. Y., 1895. Law sheep, $6.00. This volume brings the decisions covering the law of electricity almost down to the present time. We

have heretofore commented on the value of this series to the profession, and the present volume has been prepared wii.li the same care and discretion which characterized its predecessors. The selection of cases is admirable and the editor has faithfully performed his task. Hand-book of the Law of Sales. By Francis B. Tiffany. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1895. Law Sheep, $3. 75Hand-book of International Law. By Cap tain Edwin F. Gleason. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1895. Law sheep, S3. 75. These two works are the latest issues in the "Horn Book Series" which the West Publishing Co. are publishing for students' use. Mr. Tiffany's volume on " Sales" seems to be admirably adapted for its purpose, and Captain Gleason gives a clear idea of the principles governing international law. Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen. By George B. Clementson. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 1895. Law sheep, Si.50, net. This is a very timely little work, and will prove valuable not only to the profession but to the vast army of bicyclists who have taken possession of our highways and byways. Mr. Clementson sets forth the rights and liabilities of this class of travelers very clearly and concisely, and with his book for a guide wheelmen will be fully posted as to their legal status. It is, we believe, the first work upon this important subject. The Brehon Laws. A Legal Handbook. By Lawrence Ginnell of the Middle Temple. Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. Cloth, S2.40. The lover of legal antiquities will fairly revel in this book, for the Brehon (Irish) laws are old enough to satisfy the most exacting antiquarian, having reached their full proportions and maturity about the time that Alfred was reducing to order the scraps of elementary law he found existing amongst his people. Mr. Ginnell has collected a vast amount of interesting information in this volume and he communicates it in such a happy manner that the reader is fairly fasci nated by his recital. We have not the space for such comment as we would be glad to make on the subjectmatter of the book, but we heartily commend the work to everyone who is at all interested in the storv of ancient law, and we assure them they will find it one of absorbing interest.