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have before us the fourth edition—if, indeed, that can be so called which is not merely a, bringing down to date of the previous edi tion, but is a new work by the present editor. However, the important thing is that com mendation given to the previous edition can be transferred to this new volume. The present editor, although re-writing this trea tise, has availed himself freely of his prede cessor's work, and by the light of the many bankruptcy decisions handed down during the last two years has been able to add ma terially to the value of the book.

ties, so classified as to give the investigator easy access to the whole literature upon any topic. To all this vast and varied learning, whether in the text or in the foot-notes or in the Syllabus, an admirable key is furnished by the unusually excellent Index-Digest; and therefore the practitioner, however busy, will have little cause to regret that the prospec tive use of the volume by students made it necessary to print the cases without headnotes. Indeed, these cases are so interesting that an intelligent lawyer will enjoy reading the whole of almost any one of them. The title-page states that the volume is based on Snow's Cases and Opinions on In ternational Law. The additions and altera tions are, however, extremely numerous and important. This is, indeed, a new work, for the plan of which we are indebted principally to the late Dr. Snow, and for the execution of which we are indebted principally to Dr. Scott. The result of the plan and of the exe cution is, as has already been said, a book that is indispensable to the specialist and in teresting and useful to every lawyer. It only remains to add that there is no other bookprofessing to give the English and Ameri can cases on this subject, and that this book has the merit—not unique, but nevertheless well worth mentioning—of being the work of a lawyer and of treating the subject from the lawyer's point of view.

THE HEALTH OFFICERS' MANUAL AND PUBLIC i HEALTH LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. By L. L. Boyce. Buckram: $2.50. Albany, N. Y.: Matthew Bender. 1902. (xii-f28o. PP-) To the long list of law books already is sued for the especial use of city, town and county officials of the State of New York, the publisher has added the above volume, which deals- with the Public Health Law (Laws of 1893, chapter 601) and otl.er kin dred statutes, as amended to the close <jf the Legislative Session of 1902. The amount of litigation involving these statutes is small, with the result that the notes in the present volume are few and short. The SaTttary Regulations recommended by the t State Board of Health for adoption by, local boards, are reprinted in this volume.

COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY. FOURTH EDITION. THE LAW AND PRACTICE IN BANKRUPTCY UN DER THE NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY ACT OF 1898, AS AMENDED BY THE ACT OF FEBRUARY 5, 1903. By William H. Hotchkiss. Al bany, N. Y.: Matthew Bender. 1903. (xlii-f984 pp.) ''What's in a name?" Much, from the pub lisher's point of view, when the name is the title of a well-known law book; and this is the reason, probably, why the present vol ume comes to us as "Collier on Bankruptcy" rather than as Hotchkiss on the same sub ject. Two years ago the third edition of "Collier on Bankruptcy" was reviewed at some length in these columns, and now we

CONSIDERATIONS ON THF, STATE CORPORATION IN FEDERAL AND INTERSTATE RELATIONS. THE NORTHERN SECURITIES CASKS. By Carman FRandolph. 1903. (77 pp.) The elaborate study of the Northern Se curities Cases by Carman F. Randolph, re cently printed in the Columbia Law Review, has been published in pamphlet form. The article is well worth reading. Mr. Carman sums up his argument in this proposition?' "A corporation chartered by a State of the Union, like a natural person therein, is en titled to acquire property (not subject by the law of its being to a pertinent restraint on alienation) free from interference by the United States or another State."