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554 NEW LAW BOOKS.

// is the intention of The Green Bag to have its book reviews written by competent reviewers. The usual custom of magazines is to confine book notices to books sent in for review. At the request of subscribers, however, The Green Bag will be glad to review or notice any recently published law book, whether re ceivedfor review or not.

CANADIAN RAILWAY CASES-. Containing a se lection of cases affecting; railways recently decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Supreme Court and the Exchequer Court of Canada, and the Courts of the Provinces of Canada, with notes and comments. By Angus MacMiirchy and Shirley Dcnison. Volume I. Tor onto: Canada Law Book Company. 1902. Half-sheep. (xxxii+sSj pp.) The editors of the present volume, which is planned to be the first of a series of vol umes on Canadian Railway Law, have brought together about fifty of the more im portant recent Canadian cases—a few of them not reported—grouped under seven teen appropriate heads. The cases are re ported in full, and a note is added to each of the groups of cases. The more important of the notes are those on Liability of Railway Companies for Fires, Liability as Carriers of Goods, and of Passengers, respectively, Cov enants of Railway Companies, and Liability to Fence. Of the dozen other subjects with which the cases here collected deal may be mentioned Farm Crossings, Jurisdiction of the Railway Committee, Highway Crossings, Negligence and Contributory Negligence, Master and Servant, and Land taken for Railways. An Index-Digest of the cases here reported adds to the value of the vol ume.

COMMERCIAL LAW REPORTS. Annotated. Being reports of inportant decisions re lating to companies, banks and banking, insurance, insolvency, and similar subjects in the Federal and Provincial Courts. Volume I. Toronto: Canada Law Book Company. 1903. Half-sheep. (xx + 555 PP-) There are here reprinted in full some fifty or sixty recent Canadian cases falling under the general head of commercial law. To many of the cases short editorial notes are added. The arrangement of the cases is chronological, without regard to the subject dealt with; a grouping of the cases according to subject would have made the volume more convenient for reference. A REPORT of the dinner given December 9, 1902, by the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr. Justice John .Marshall Harlan, in recognition of the completion of twenty-five years of distin guished service on the bench, has been issued in sumptuous form. The frontispiece is an excellent photogravure portrait of the Jus tice. The speeches here reported—which were excellent, as befitted the occasion,— were by the President, former AttorneyGeneral Wayne MacVeagh (who presided), Justice Harlan, the Chief Justice, Justice Brewer, Senator Hoar, Sir Edward Blake, of the Canadian bar, Hon. Alexander Pope Humphrey, Assistant Attorney-General James M. Beck, and R. Ross Perry, Esq. The committee in charge are to be con gratulated not only on the success of the din ner, which was a truly notable occasion, but also on their excellent taste which has led to the production of a beautiful volume which will be a lasting memorial to the distinguished services of Justice Harlan.