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 Rh 831 what adds especially to its practical value is the care and thoroughness with which are indicated the differences existing in the va rious State courts and the Federal courts in matters of practice and procedure, and in the application of legal principles. An examination of the book makes evi dent the fact that the author has choc.-n his subject because of real interest in it, and that he has given it careful study. NOTES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. By William A. Sutherland. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1904. (xv+973 PP-) This book arranges under the several clauses of the Constitution brief notes of the pertinent decisions. There is a slip on p. 527, where, in a comment on Const., article III, section 2, first clause ("The judicial power shall extend ... to controversies between two or more States"), it is too broadly stated that "a suit by a State on claims assigned to it, against another State, is not a suit between States within the meaning of this clause." citing New Hamp shire v. Louisiana, 108 U. S. 76 (1883). The case cited shows that the proposition does not go beyond instances where the assign ment is merely illusory, the apparent as signee having no real interest. Such a slip, however, simply indicates that this book, like all others, must be used cautiously. Taken as a whole, the book is painstaking, convenient, and trustworthy. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS TORY OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE. By John A. Kasson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1904. Cloth, (xviii +273 PP-) The main portion of this book was written and published as part of the official proceed ings, in 1887, at the centennial celebration in Philadelphia of the formation of the Consti tution. It is a clear and readable, rather than a dry legal story of the constitutional history, briefly told, of the colonies leading up to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and, in more detail, of the Convention itself

—its members, its proceedings, and its de bates; and a discussion of the various pro visions of the Constitution, with the Amend ments. The chapter on the Monroe Doc trine is added to the present volume, says the author, because its influence "has be come almost equal to that of a provision of the national Constitution." AN EXPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. By Henry Flanders Fifth edition. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, and Company. 1904. (xii+726 PP-) This book is adapted to the needs of the general reader. It is to be regretted that §152 does not very clearly define police reg ulations; but this shortcoming is hardly the fault of the author. When a new edition is prepared it may be well to recast the chap ter on the courts in such a way that all pas sages will describe the courts as they are now constituted. Yet, in spite of occasional shortcomings, the book is worthy of com mendation .as comprehensive and useful. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. An Interpretation and an Analysis. By Her bert Fricdcnzvald. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1904. Cloth. (xii+29Q PP-) Dr. Friedenwald first traces the growth of the sentiment for independence and its re lation to "the development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental Con gress." Then, after a chapter on "Adopting and Signing the Declaration," he takes up its critics, and later discusses its purpose and its philosophy, and explains the griev ances recited in the Declaration. In an ap pendix Jefferson's Draft and the Engrossed Copy of the Declaration are given on oppo site pages. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. By T. B. Edgington. Boston: Little. Brown, and Com pany. 1904. (viii+344 pp.) This is a rhetorical, but readable and use ful, account of the rise and development of the foreign policy of the United States. It is unfortunate that the author considers the Monroe Doctrine principally as a declara