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notes are stated almost all the pertinent English cases, and a great number of cases from the United States; and, besides, there are countless references to treatises. As the authorities are carefully classified, the person who wishes sys tematic reading finds it easy to follow again the subjects of his law school course, or — better still — to go into new fields. The index volume that now completes this valuable series enables the practitioner to turn promptly to the very au thority that he needs.

Report of Spec1al and Regular Meetings of the Colorado Bar Association. Vol ume 5. 1902. The proceedings of the fifth annual meeting of the Colorado Bar Association, held in July, 1902, have been published in the volume before us. Of more than local interest is the address of Edward T. Taylor on " The Torrens System of Registering Title to Land," which gives, in addition to a brief historical sketch of the sys tem, a statement of the legislation of this nature which has been enacted in the various States and a review of the cases to which such statutes have given rise. The volume contains also the address of the retiring president of the associa tion, Piatt Rogers, the annual address by William Travis Jerome, of New York, and three ad dresses on the proposed Australasian Tax Amend ment, by which any county might exempt from all taxation — except a State tax — '-any or all personal property and improvements on land."

Outlines of Crim1nal Law. Based on Lec tures delivered in the University of Cam bridge. By Courtney Stanhope Kenny, LL.D. Cambridge: University Press. 1902. Cloth: $2.50. (xxii + 528 pp.) Early in the year we had occasion to review the Selection ofCases Illustrative ofEnglish Crim inal Law by the University Reader in English Law at Cambridge. That earlier volume may well be used in connection with the book before us. many of the references in which are to the Selection of Cases. It is seldom that a legal text-book is readable. Yet the Outlines of Criminal Law has in a marked degree that quality, — an admirable

quality, if it be achieved without sacrifice of ac curacy of legal statement. In the present in stance there seems to be no such sacrifice. Another commendable feature of this treatise is that the author has shown rare judgment in not overloading with citations either his pages or his foot-notes. It seems not improbable that the good qualities which we have noted would be found more frequently in text-books if legal writers would exercise the self-restraint of the present author, and would refrain from giv ing their works to the press until ripe with the experience of a quarter of a century; the Out lines of Criminal Laiv embodying, in substance, lectures delivered at the University during the period mentioned. Besides dealing with the general considera tions of this branch of the law and with partic ular crimes, the author devotes part of his volume to criminal procedure and to the elements of Evidence. The American State Reports. Vol.85. Con taining cases of general value and authority, decided in courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco : Bancroft' Whitney Company. 1902. (1053 pp.) The cases in this volume are from the follow ing recent reports : Alabama 126, 127; California 133; Illinois 191, 192; Maine 95; Minnesota 83; Missouri 162, 163; New Hampshire 70; NewYork 168; North Carolina 129; Pennsylvania State 199 : South Carolina 60, 61; Washington 24. The leading monographic notes are on "Elements of Damage allowable in proceedings in the exercise of the Power of Eminent Do main"; "Jurisdiction of Foreign Corporations "; "Conflict of Laws as affecting the Rights and Obligations of Married Women"; "Liability for Misrepresentations indirectly made to the Com plaining Parry "; " Right of a Person accused of Crime to a Speedy Trial"; "What Words or Phrases may constitute a Valid Trade-mark"; "Right of one Land Owner to accelerate or diminish the Flow of Water to or from the Lands of Another." The publishers have issued, for presentation to the patrons of this series of Reports, a brief Digest to Volumes 79-84. including a Table of Cases and an Index to Notes.