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But if the book can hardly be called a treatise either on International law or American diplo macy, much less on both, it is not without a cer tain value. The influence of Senator Davis was very marked in the last three or four years of his life, and his attitude toward the Spanish troubles as well as on the matter of expansion is here clearly stated. But while these expres sions of personal opinion are short, yet they are out of all proportion to the size of the volume, and do not properly belong there. Dr. Healy has been very painstaking in his annotation and at times the notes are longer than the text. For instance, note 3, page 14, is thirteen pages and note i, page 141 is longer than the chapter to which it is appended. If the book were a classic, as, for example, Wheaton's, such annotation might be necessary to bring it up to date, or to show the progress of the science since its publication. As it is, one loses the thread of the text. The little craft carries too much ballast. But if Dr. Healy is not to be blamed for making an earnest attempt to enhance the value of the book, he is to be taxed with many serious misprints or inaccuracies, with which the book is disfigured. Some of these are as follows : page 17, is a direct quotation from, not a para phrase of, D'Aguesseau; page 26 " Lord " Story is unknown, although Mr. Justice Story is one of our greatest jurists; " Lord Chancellor Jas." Cockburn is fictitious, although Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn is well known to us through the Geneva Award; page 72, " executor " should be executive; page 130, "Humbolt" should be Humboldt; Pitt was Prime Minister and Chan cellor of the Exchequer, not " foreign min ister"; page 172, Sir Charles Hedges was Judge of the Admiralty in 1689 not in 1869. The American cases that Dr. Healy cites are well chosen and he deserves great credit for thus treating International law as law proper. But here again misprints occur. For example : page 107, U. S. v. Pohner should be "U. S. v. Palmer; page 165, The Dos Hermanus should be Dos Hermanos; page 120, Jackson v. Dunn should be Jackson v. Lunn; page 166, the San Jose Indians should be the San Jose Indiano. The Appendix contains at least three bad ones : " Marboin " is made Bonaparte's minister of the Treasury instead of Marbois; " Decies"

is made minister of Marine instead of Decrès, page 260, and Bernadotte, the future king of Sweden loses his identity in Revendotte. page 258. The Appendix, in addition to the lecture on American Diplomacy contains an abstract of the Treaty of Westphalia and Professor Lieber's famous " Instruction for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field," for which no credit is given to the codifier. To the many friends and admirers of Senator Davis the book will be pleasant reading, but it is too short, too summarized and the style hardly such as to make it a text-book for schools or colleges.

A TREATISE ON THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMEND MENT то THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. BY Henry Brannon (Judge of the Supreme Court of West Virginia). Cincin nati: W. H. Anderson & Company. 1901. Cloth, (ix + 562 pp.) Judge Brannon has taken as the subject for his treatise Section i and Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The discussion falls, in a general way, under four heads; first, citi zenship, under the first clause of Section i; sec ondly, privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, and thirdly, life, liberty and property, and equal protection of the laws, — all under the second clause of Section i; and fourthly, Federal processes to enforce the Amend ment. The clause relating to privileges and immunities arising from national citizenship Judge Brannon agrees with Judge Cooley in thinking not essential, since, even in its absence, a privilege or immunity based on national right could not be abridged by State action; for, to quote the present author " a power to protect Federal privilege or immunity, would, without the amendment, reside in the Federal judiciary, and likely in Congress." (p. 62.) The questions of citizenship, of privileges and immunities, and of the enforcement of the amendment are considered at sufficient length : but the larger part of the present volume is, rightly, devoted to the consideration of the clause which is the core of the amendment — "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty