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desirable thing as a deterrent to prevent plung ing with a light heart into war. One of the French members advocated immunity; but two others opposed it, one taking the ground that it was a question of policy which each state must answer for itself, as occasion arises, and the other denying the assumed analogy between property on land and property at sea, and hold ing with Captain Mahan that " two contending armies might as well agree to respect each other's communications as two belligerent states to guarantee immunity to hostile commerce." NOTES ON THE UNITED STATES REPORTS. By William Malins Rose. Book X. 103-115 United States Reports. San Francisco : Ban croft, Whitney Co. 1900. Law sheep. (1187 pp.) This volume is, as the title page states, " a brief chronological digest of all points determined in the decisions of the Supreme Court, with notes showing the influence, following, and present authority of each case, as disclosed by the cita tions, comprising all citing cases in that court, the intermediate and inferior Federal courts, and the courts of last resort of all the States." This mere statement both shows the wide range and exhaustive character of the volume, and indicates its value, as a book of reference, to the working lawyer. The statement of the points decided in each of the cases in the thirteen volumes of United States Reports is short and clear, each point in a decision being stated by itself and followed directly by the citations bearing upon it. The amount of labor involved in the prepa ration of such an exhaustive work of reference as the volume before us is almost appalling; but the undertaking, if well and thoroughly done, as is here the case, is justified by the value of the result to the profession. RECEIVED AND TO BE REVIEWED LATER.

THE ELEMENTS OF JURISPRUDENCE. By T. E. Holland, D.C.L. Ninth edition. New York. Oxford University Press, American Branch. 1900. THE LAW OF COMBINATIONS, By Austin J. Eddy. Chicago: Callaghan & Co. 1901. THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF BANKING in Australia and New Zealand. By Edward B. Hamilton, Б.А. Second edition. Melbourne : Charles F. Maxwell. 1900.

ENCYCLOPEDIC NOTES. IT is hardly probable that, when King Solomon cried out some three thousand years ago, ." Of mak ing many books there is no end," he foresaw the condition of the legal profession in the twentieth century of the Christian Era, else he would have concluded his sentence, " and much buying of them is a weariness to the bank account." With an everincreasing torrent of reports and text-books, good, bad and unspeakable, falling from the press, and with endless " new editions " and other nefarious projects to vex his spirit, the lawyer of to-day finds himself in a truly embarrassing position. He must either give up a considerable part of his income to the purchase of text-books, or take the chance of "the other fellow " finding authorities which are not accessible to him. In view of this state of affairs he will doubtless welcome with delight the announce ment of a publication designed to obviate the neces sity for all other text-books and possessing the secret of eternal youth. These are the things promised by the publishers of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure, the first volume of which is soon to appear. The plan of this work contains many features that are bound to prove attractive to the legal worker. To briefly indicate some of the salient points : it is to be a cyclopedia of all the law procedure as well as substantive law; it is to be completed in thirtytwo volumes; it is to be written by competent law writers; it will cite not only the official reports but also the National Reporter System, the American Decisions, Reports and State Reports, and the re ports of the Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Com pany; it is to contain a complete lexicon of legal words, phrases and maxims; and last, but by no means least, it is to be kept always abreast of the current decisions by an inexpensive system of annotation. It is needless to say that a book carried to completion along these lines will prove of very great value to the busy lawyer. That the cyclopedic method of treating the law is superior to any other can hardly be disputed, for by it the law is rendered easier of access, which is the chief desideratum of the practitioner. An inspection of the advance sheets sent out by the publishers shows that the work is being carefully and ably done. The subjects are minutely analyzed, the statements of the law are terse and accurate and the citation of authorities is apparently exhaustive. The advantage of treating the practice decisions along with the rest of the law on the subject becomes quickly manifest, and the innovation of indicating in the notes the cases containing adjudicated forms of pleading lends an additional value to the work. The publisher is the American Law Book Company, 120 Broadway, New York.