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problem and be sure of the solution. In that The scheme of the book is well carried out. this book succeeds; there are no discriminations The statements of principles are both concise piled upon discriminations, there are no cases and clear; the illustrations are ample, but are piled upon cases. At the same time the selec not so numerous as to overload the volume. In tion of the cases for illustration shows skill; and a word, this manual will be of practical use to the treatment of the authority shows understand the practitioner, and will give the student a workable knowledge of the law of trusts. ing. For practical use the book has its limita tions; there is not enough of citation, there is not complete mastery.- The writer of this re American Electrical Cases, with annotations. view has only examined with care the chapter Edited by William W, Morrill. Vol. VII. on mortgages. That chapter was found of much 1897-1901. Albany, N. Y. : Matthew Bender. information; it was to be noted that the princi 1902. Law sheep : $6.00. (xxiv + 940 pp.) One's first thought on reading the title of this pal rules were brought up for discussion, it was to be remarked that the latest case in point was volume is that here, probably, is an example of always discussed. And yet in that chapter was over-specialization; but an examination of the found a failure to go to the root of the matter. cases here reported convinces one that there is, For example, in Stantley v. Wilde, the English in fact, a sufficiently wide and important range courts had held that a mortgage of a theatre of cases, properly grouped as electrical cases, to could contain a provision that the mortgagee warrant a series of reports on this subject. The principal notes in these seven volumes cover for should have a share in the profits of the mort gagor; now in Noakes v. Rice, the English example, such diverse subjects as rights of abut courts have just held that the mortgage cannot ting owners as to the use of streets for electric stipulate that the mortgagor shall use beer of lines, duty of electric street railways to pas the mortgagee in the public house. How can sengers and to travellers, electrocution, municithe one be held no clog upon the equity of re I pal control of street use, electrical appliances as demption and the other be held to restrict the! nuisances, statutory protection to motormen, redemption? Our author states both cases as stock quotations by telegram, state control of telegraph rates, and underground wires, — to law; and yet that obviously cannot be. mention only a few of the many titles. The A Practical and Concise Manual of the Law cases collected in this series contain the impor Relating to Private Trusts and Trustees. tant cases (except patent cases) relating to By Arthur Underbill, M.A., LL.D. Fifth various uses of electricity decided in the State edition. London: Buttervvorth and Company. and Federal courts from 1873 to 1901, the 1901. Cloth : 17s. 6d. (lxvii -f- 400 + 69 pp.) present volume covering the years 1897-1901. This manual does not profess to give an This seventh volume contains a good one-line elaborate study of its subject, such as is to be index-digest for the whole series. found in Lewin on Trusts; rather it aims at a concise statement of underlying principles. In Report of the Twentv-fourth Annual Meet ing of the American Bar Association. justification of his preference for modern rather than ancient cases as illustrations of these prin 1901. (720 pp.) In these yearly reports there are always one or ciples, the author quotes Sir George Jessel, — that " the rules of Courts of Equity are not, like more addresses which may rightly be called no the rules of Common Law, supposed to have table. In the present instance the annual ad been established from time immemorial. It is dress on "The Insular Cases," by Hon. Charles E. I.ittlefield, of Maine, and the paper on " Ham perfectly well-known that they have been es tablished from time to time — altered, improved ilton, the Lawyer." by Henry I). Estabrook, Esq.. and refined from time to time. The doctrines of Chicago, deserve this appellation; the first, an are progressive, refined and improved; and if able and searching review- of decisions which are we want to know what the rules of Equity are, as unsatisfactory as they are important, the se we must look rather to the more modern than cond, an interesting study of Hamilton from a point of view practically neglected hitherto. the more ancient cases."