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missioner of labor the author has had available a vast amount of valuable material which he has embodied in this volume, with the result that the work is one of the clearest and most interesting expositions of the subject yet offered to the public. Its scope may be seen from the following table of contents: Part I. The Basis of Practical Sociology. Introduction. 1 . Development of the Science of Social Relation. 2. The Population of the United States. 3. The Statusof the Population of the United States. 4. Native and Foreign Born. Part II. Units of Social Organ ism. 1. Social Units. Part III. Questions of Population. 1. Immigration. 2. Urban and Rural Population. 3. Special Problems of City Life. Part IV. Questions of the Family. 1. Marriage and Divorce. 2. Education. 3. Employment of Women and Children. Part V. The Labor Sys tem. 1. Old and New Systems of Labor. 2. Ap pliances of the Modern Labor System. 3. Relations of Employer and Employee. 4. Questions Relating to Strikes and Lockouts. Part VI. Social WellBeing. 1. The Accumulation of Wealth. 2. Pov erty. 3. The Relation of Art to Social Well-Being. 4. Are the Rich Growing Richer and the Poor Poorer? Part VII. The Defence of Society. 1. Criminology. 2. The Punishment of Crime. 3. The Temperance Question. 4. Regulation of Organiza tions. Part VIII. Remedies : Solutions that are Proposed for Social and Economic Difficulties. Maps and Diagrams. Index.

NEW LAW BOOKS. A Rev1ew of recent Legal Dec1s1ons Affectt1ng Phys1c1ans, Dent1sts, Drugg1sts, and the Publ1c Health. By W. A. Purr1ngton of the New York Bar. E. B. Treat & Co., New York, 1899. 50 cts. This little volume is of value to the legal prac titioner as well as to the professional gentlemen whose rights and duties are defined by the cases reviewed. In addition to these cases the work contains a brief for the prosecution of unlicensed practitioners of medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, with a paper on manslaughter, Christian science and the law, and other matters. A Treat1se on the Amer1can Ijvw of Adm1n1s trat1on. By J. G. Woerner. Second edi tion. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1899. Two vols. Law sheep. $12.00, net. This work of Mr. Woerner is a practical and exhaustive treatise upon the law of administration in America and is most admirably adapted to the practitioners needs. It is now ten years since the first edition appeared and the changes wrought

during this period have necessitated some alterations and the rewriting of portions of the work. Some five thousand new cases have been selected and added to the treatise and the statutes referred to have been carefully compared and brought down to date. No practicing lawyer can afford to be without these volumes and this second edition is certain to meet with even a heartier welcome than that extended to the original work. Amer1can State Reports, Vol. 66. Containing the cases of general value and authority de cided in the courts of last resort of the several States and Territories. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco, 1899. Law sheep, $4.00. This series of reports is kept up to the high standard which has characterized them, under the able editorship of Mr. Freeman. The selections of cases shows rare judgment and discrimination, and the annotations are veritable mines of valuable information. State Tr1als. Edited by Charles Edward Lloyd. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 1899. Cloth. S3.00, net. This volume, which is we trust the harbinger of more to follow, gives to ihe profession, at a reasonable price, several notable state trials. It contains the Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain Kidd, the Pirate. These are con densed, but everything of special interest is given in full. There is no better way of impressing English History on one's mind than by reading these trials. No lawyer can fail to find a romantic interest in every page of the book and he will be amazed at the language and the ruling of some of the lawyers and judges of the dates given. The volume is admirably gotten up, type, paper and binding, leaving nothing to be desired. If the publishers will only supplement it with others cover ing all the state trials of importance they will confer a favor which will be fully appreciated by all lawyers. H1stor1cal Introduct1on to the Pr1vate Law of Rome. By the late James Mu1rhead, LL.D. Second edition, revised and edited by Henry Goudy, LL.D., Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford. Adam and Charles Black, Lon don, 1899. The MacMillan Company, New York. Cloth. $5.00. This work when it first appeared in 1886 came as a most valuable addition to our literature upon Ro man Law and was heartily welcomed by students of jurisprudence. In this new edition the editor has supplemented the author's notes by references to such works of importance dealing with the history of Roman Law as have been published since the date of the first edition. In its present form the treatise is a thorough and exhaustive exposition of a most interesting subject.