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wholly from the first nail to the last, or from the smallest to the largest." Whether or not there were in those days schools of ploughmanship conferring degrees of B. P. and M. P., I will leave to be discovered by some one else. With fifty clauses treating of damage to crops and the impounding of cattle, the Proof-Book comes to an end. One quaint extract from the closing section and I have done. " If either a horse or other animal be found with its two fore-feet upon the corn, it is not to be taken, since it was not wholly upon the corn, and part is not the

whole." So that if the Welsh farmer should see a trained elephant walking on its fore-feet over his field of young and tender corn, he would have to grin and bear it, or as an alternative, endure without grinning. So end the laws of Howel the Good, laws which, though many of them seem very peculiar to our modern minds, were un doubtedly adapted to the state of society existing at the time and in the country in which they were made. At any rate, for clearness, for comprehensiveness, and mi nuteness of detail, they stand unexcelled, if not unequaled in the entire history of law.

DOGS AND THE LAW. By Roscoe Pound. IT seems that the common law only took notice of a mastiff, hound, spaniel, and tumbler. But those days are long since passed. To-day courts are compelled to take notice of all sorts and conditions of dogs and all manner of suits arising from their natural delight in barking and biting. The law pertaining to dogs has thus reached considerable bulk, if nothing more, and, considering the increasing number of cases in the reports having dogs for their subjectmatter or arising out of the doings of dogs, it is somewhat strange, in this age of text books, that no one has produced a " com pendious treatise" upon the subject. While the profession is waiting for this treatise, I venture a few observations which may be of use to the learned author and serve to help him in filling that portion of his two volumes (there will be two volumes of course) not taken up by the table of contents and the table of cases cited. In the first place, a few suggestions as to the title. If possible, the word Jurispru dence should find a place in the title. We

have Medical Jurisprudence, Dental Juris prudence, and others of the sort, and I could never see why an author who thought it worth his while to write on the law pertain ing to horses, or on the law applicable to farmers, should omit the opportunity of giv ing us Equine Jurisprudence and Rural Juris prudence. But perhaps the latter phrase, or Agricultural Jurisprudence, or any equiv alent, might be confusing, as suggestive of justices of the peace. At any rate our au thor must ponder well before he discards Canine Jurisprudence. "Commentaries on Canine Jurisprudence," — how insignificant is " A Treatise on the Law of Dogs " in comparison. A Treatise might possibly be compressed into one volume. Commen taries, never! Next our author will investigate the his torical aspects of the subject. He will ex amine the laws and customs of the Egyp tians, he will quote a few passages from the Digest, and, if possible, from the Twelve Tables. Cave caneui may be cited as a maxim of Roman Law applicable to mod