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the darkness of the night and the thickness of the wood the foresters could not follow them, so that they escaped. And an inquisition was made by four neighboring townships, Stoke, Carlton, Great Oakley and Corby, who said that the said evildoers were seen with bows and arrows and crossbows and greyhounds, and that they escaped, but that they could not as certain who they were. And because the said townships did not come etc., therefore they are in mercy." (Page 28.) There are many other passages worthy of quotation, especially the picturesque record on pages 99-102. Yet it is neither possible nor necessary to quote further; and by this time it must be clear to even the most matter-of-fact reader that this is an interesting book. To the scholar it is hardly necessary to say that, like the other publications of the Selden Society, this volume is carefully edited. In addition to the original Latin text and a trans lation, the editor has given an introduction and a glossary for the benefit of those readers to whom the book is a basis for study rather than for light reading.

authorities appears to be carefully done and the book might well prove of use in an American law school which devoted a comparatively small amount of time to the study of criminal law and procedure. For the lawyer the collection should be of considerable value; especially as it con tains many valuable English cases not found in any reports accessible in most of our law lib raries, such for instance as the Sessions papers of the Central Criminal Court, and the newseries of State Trials.

Commercial Trusts. The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital. By John R. Dos Passos. New York: G. B. Putnam's Sons. 1901. A Cloth, Study of (pp.the vi + Un1ted 137.) States Steel Cor porat1on 1n 1ts Industrial and Legal Aspects. By Horace L. Wilgus. Chicago : Callaghan and Company. Buckram. 1901. The (pp.Control xiii + 222.) of Trusts. An Argument in

Favor of Curbing the Power of Monopoly by a Natural Method. By John Bates Clark. New York: The Macmillan Company. Cloth. Selection of Cases Illustrative of English 1901. (pp. x + 88.) As Mr. Dos Passos recites : While you are Criminal law. By Courtney Stanhope Kenny, LL.D. New York and London: The discussing the fashion of things, the fashion is Macmillan Company. Cloth : $3.00 (pp. gone by. The trust agreement, its schemation, xix + 544). its operation, its faults, is now no longer worth This selection of cases by the Reader in Eng discussion; for it is a dead thing. It is with its lish Criminal Law in the University of Cam successor we are engaged now, the incorporated bridge, England, is interesting as showing the I consolidation — that enormous aggregation of extention of the case system of study in the capital, stupendous as judged by any standard English Universities. The book is prepared the industrial world has known. In times of on much the same principle as our American change there is division of councils; some main books of cases for use in law schools. There tain that the original taint of illegality remains; are no head notes, but the editor states the point others maintain that it is purged. Mr. Dos of each case in a few words at the head of it. Passos showed, in this argument of his two years Several American cases are included. The scope ago, that what we have in the modern form of of the book is slightly different from that of most the consolidation is the corporation — that and of our American collections. The general doc nothing more. So long as we allow five men to trines of the law are rather slightly treated, but combine to form a corporation, we must allow considerable space is given to the study of the fifty thousand men to form a corporation; if a more important particular crimes, such as homi corporation may have a capital of one thousand, cide, larceny and similar crimes, forgery, per it may have a capital of one billion. It is a cor jury, conspiracy, bigamy, libel and treason; poration in one case or the other, a higher type and quite adequate treatment is given to the by the process of evolution doubtless, but the subjects of presumptions, burden of proof, and same thing, nevertheless. Mr. Dos Passos speaks evidence in criminal trials. The selection of squarely here; and the march of events in the