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 Rh Russia and Turkey of the right of expatria tion and of the treatment of American Jews in Russia, both discussed in this chapter. The appendix contains the laws of the United States relating to Citizenship and Naturalization, and the Naturalization Con ventions to which the United States is a party. TEXT-BOOK OF THE PATENT LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By Albert H. Walker. Fourth Edition. New York: Baker, Voorhis, and Company. 1904. (cviii+775 pp.) The volume before us is an excellent ex ample oí a good text-book, well meriting a fourth edition. The author brings to his work the experience of a patent practice ex tending over more than a quarter of a cen tury. The arrangement of the book is logi cal, beginning with a discussion of such fun damental matters as the Subjects of Patents, Invention, Novelty, and Utility; then treat ing of the kindred subjects of Applications, Letter Patent, Reissues, Extensions, Title, Licenses, and Infringement; and winding up with a consideration of Courts, Parties and Causes, Action at Law, Damages, Actions in Equity, Injunctions, and Profits. It is a pleasure to note that Mr. Walker's book is more than a mere stringing together of cases in logical order—a mere digest. It is, in truth, a valuable treatise on the subject of Patent Law, and includes intelligent dis cussion of principles, as well as statements of cases. Occasionally the author dissents from the conclusion reached by the court, as, for example, on the question whether the term "manufacture" "should be held to jus tify a patent for the invention of a new and useful human habitation, or of a new and useful improvement of such a structure," and in such cases he has the courage to state his own views—an excellent quality in a text-book writer. The Appendix contains the Patent Stat utes from the Patent Act oí 1790 to date.

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STREET RAILWAY REPORTS. Annotated. Re porting the Electric Railway and Street Railway Decisions of the Federal and State Courts in the United States. Edited by Frank B. Gilbert. Vol. I. Albany, New York: Matthew Bender. 1904. (xvi+ 943 PP-) This first volume of a new series of Re ports covering current cases of a special na ture, contains about one hundred and fifty Street Railway cases decided in twentyseven State Courts and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals between April i, 1903, and the fall of the same year, the in tention of the editor being to report "all the cases decided in the Federal Courts, in the courts of last resort of all the States, and the important cases decided in lower courts of original or appellate jurisdiction, relating in any way to the management, operation, or control of street railways, and the rights, du ties and liabilities of street railway compan ies." Editorial notes are added to many of the cases. Naturally a majority of the cases are negligence and personal injury cases; but many other important classes of cases are included, as, for example, those involv ing franchises, and those dealing with dam ages to abutting owners by elevated rail roads, c. g., Aldis v. Union Elevated Rail road Company, an Illinois case, and the Massachusetts case of Baker v. Boston Ele vated Railway Company. STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENT LAW. By Andrew J. Ncllis. Albany, N. Y.: Matthew Ben der. 1904. (cxii+7ii pp.) This volume is, in effect, a well-arranged digest of American, including Canadian, cases, dealing with—to quote the sub-title— "the liability of street railroads for injuries to the person and property by accidents to passengers, employés, and travelers on the public streets and highways, and [with] the pleading and practice in the various jur isdictions in street railroad litigation." Within these somewhat narrow lines the author's work seems to be carefully and thoroughly done, making the book one of