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being one of the earliest to introduce the case system, and apparently in this reform it /f is the intention of The Green Bag to have its is antedated by none but Harvard, the Uni book reviews written by competent reviewers. versity of Iowa, Columbia, Vestern Reserve, The usual custom of magazines is to confine and Northwestern. book notices to books sent in for review. Thus it happens that any one interested At the request of subscribers, however, The in the history of legal educatibn should en Green Bag will be glad to review or notice joy reading the historical addresses with any recently published larv book whether which this pamphlet opens. The address by received for review or not. I Sir Frederick Pollock is devoted, naturally ADDRESS OK SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, AND enough, not to the history of this law school, OTHER ADDRESSES. (Delivered on the Oc but to the history of the law, and, though casion of the Dedicatory Services of the very short, it has all the clearness and grace Cincinnati Law School Building-, October that make every line of Sir Frederick Pol 17, 1903.) Cincinnati: The University of lock's productions good reading. As Sir Cincinnati. 1904. Pamphlet. (23 pp.) Frederick Pollock here says: "It is certainly The Cincinnati Law School is of unusual a commonplace historical fact—so obvious interest on account of its age and the emi that at first sight it is hardly worth stating— nence of many of the past and present in that what this school is now doing on the structors. It is much the oldest existing law banks of the Ohio is a continuation of that school west of the Alleghanies, and indeed which was begun more than six hundred there are now only three older American law years ago on the banks of the Thames.*' schools —Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia. The Cincinnati Law School be gan about 1834, under the care of instruct! CYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND PROCEDURE. Edited by William Mack. Volumes XL, XII., ors educated at the old Litchfield Law Xew York: American Law Book Com School, by Reeve and Gould; and at Har pany. 1904. (1194, 1197 pp.) vard, by Story and Ashmun. At the begin These two volumes cover subjects under ning it had among its instructors Timothy the letter "C'' beginning with an article of Walker, author of the volume on "American three hundred pages on Costs, by William Law" which still retains popularity. Other Alexander Martin. The subject of Coun instructors of more than local reputation have been Bellamy Storer (Judge), John W. tries is treated at about the same length by S. Blair Fisher, while the important article Stevenson (Governor of Kentucky and Sen of four hundred pages on Courts is contri ator), George Hoadlv (Judge and Governor buted by Joseph A. Joyce and Howard A. of Ohio), Manning F. Force (Major-General Joyce. Counterfeiting, Court Commission and Judge), Jacob D. Cox (Major-General, ers, Action of Covenant and Covenants are Governor of Ohio, and Secretan- of the In terior), J. D. Brannan (Professor in the Har the other articles in the earlier volume. ïn volume XII. the shorter articles cover vard Law School), Lawrence Maxwell (So Creditor's Suits, by Judge Roderick E. Romlicitor General), Gustavus H. Wald (author hauer, Crops, Curtesy, Customs and Usages of valuable notes to, Pollock on Contracts), and Customs Duties. The bulk of the vol and William H. Taft (Judge, Solicitor-Gen ume is given over to an exhaustive treat eral, Governor of the Phillippines, and Sec ment of Criminal Law by H. C. Underbill retary of War). There have been many and William Lawrence Clark. Beginning other instructors whose local repute has with consideration of "The Nature and Ele been quite as high as that of the few distin ment of Crime, and Defenses.'' the general guished men just now named. The gradu subject is treated under such heads as "Jur ates also have been numerous and distin isdiction," "Venue," "Former Jeopardy," guished. The school further prides itself on NEW LAW BOOKS.