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translation from the Bible, during which time pupils are not required to attend, is not a place •of worship, nor its teachers ministers of religion, within the constitutional provision declaring that no person shall be compelled to attend any place of worship, or contribute to the support of a minister of religion. The question which the •court regards as being of chief importance, is whether or not the King James' translation of the Bible is a sectarian book, so that its reading -would constitute sectarian instruction within the

meaning of the constitutional provision, that no books of sectarian character shall be used in any common school nor any sectarian doctrine be taaght therein. In support of the decision in the negative, a number of cases are cited, among them Vidal v. Girard's Ex'r, 2 How. 127; Donahoe v. Richards, 38 Me. 379; Spiller v. Inhabitants of Woburn, 12 Allen 127; Pfeiffer v. Board of Edu cation, 77 N. W. 250; Moore v. Munroe, 20 N. W. 275; McCormick v. Burt, 95 Ill. 263.

NEW BOOKS RECEIVED INTERSTATE COMMERCE. By Frederick N. Judson. Special counsel (1905) of the U. S. Government, in alleged violations of the Interstate Commerce Act. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago, Ill., 1905. Price $5.00. . JUSTICE IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA. By Oliver Perry Chit-wood. One of the Johns Hopkins University Studies. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1905. LEGISLATION AGAINST SPECULATION AND GAM BLING IN THE FORMS OP TRADE. By T. Henry Deuvy. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1905. ENGLISH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER LORD CLARENDON. By Percy Lewis Kaye. One of the Johns Hopkins University Studies. The Johns Hopkins Press, Balti more, 1905. ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND JAPANESE LAW. By Nobushige Hozumi. Z. P. Maruya & Co., Ltd., Tokio, 1905. THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY. By Simeon E. Baldwin. The Century Co., New York, 1905CALENDAR OP AMERICAN JEWISH CASES. By Albert M. Friedenberg. The Lord Baltimore Press, Baltimore, Md., 1905. THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW: ITS HISTORY AND ITS PRACTICAL OPERATION. By Amasa M. Eaton, President of the Con ference of Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation. Reprinted from Michigan Law Review.

DRAFT OF AN ACT FOR CODIFYING THE LAW RELATING TO THE SALE OF GOODS. As re vised after consultation with the commis sioners on Uniform State Laws. Prepared by Samuel Villiston. Reprinted from Trans actions of American Bar Association. INTERNATIONAL, CIVIL, AND COMMERCIAL LAW AS FOUNDED UPON THEORY, LEGISLATION, AND PRACTICE. By T. Meili, Professor at the University of Zurich. Translated with additions of American and English Law. By Arthur K. Kiihu. The Macmillan Com pany, New York, 1905. Price $3.00, net. THE CIVIL CODE OP THE REPUBLIC OF PAN AMA AND AMENDATORY LAWS. Translated by Frank L. Joannini. (This is said to be the first civil code of a Latin-American country to be translated into English.) Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D.C., 1905. UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION. By Amasa M. Eaton. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Missiouri Bar Association. LEADING CASES IN THE BIBLE. By David W. Amram. Julius H. Greenstone, Philadelphia, ^OSOFFICIAL REPORT OF THE UNIVERSAL CON GRESS OF LAWYERS AND JURISTS AT ST. Louis IN SEPTEMBER, 1904. Edited by the Secretary of the Congress. Copies may be ob tained of V. Mott Porter, 220 N. Fourth St., St. Louis, Mo.