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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT JURISPRUDENCE. "The Human Interest of the Law," by T. R. Hughs, K. C., Canadian Law Review (V. iv, p. 419).

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whether it is to be expressed on lines of evo lution or on lines of revolution. Nothing can better fit you for taking part in the solution of these problems, than the study, and, pre eminently, the practice of law. Those of you who feel drawn to that profession may rest assured that you will find in it an opportunity for usefulness which is probably unequaled. There is a call upon the legal profession to do a great work for this country."

LAWYERS (Their Opportunities). An ad dress by Louis D. Brandeis entitled "The Opportunity in the Law" is published in the July American Law Review (V. xxxix, p. 555) which the author summarizes as follows: "Here, consequently, is the great oppor LIEN (Innkeeper). "When Will an Inn tunity of the bar. The next generation must witness a continuing and ever-increasing con keeper's Lien for the Board and Lodging of test between those who have and those who His Guest Extend to the Property of Third have not. The industrial world is in a state Persons Brought to the Hotel by His Guest," of ferment. The ferment is in the main by Walter J. Lotz, Central Law Journal (V. peaceful, and, to a considerable extent, silent; Ixi, p. 43). but there is felt to-day very widely the in consistency in this condition of political de MONROE DOCTRINE (See Diplomacy). mocracy and industrial absolutism. The peo ple are beginning to doubt whether in the long MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (Constitu run democracy and absolutism can co-exist in tional Law). "Municipal Ordinances Relating the same community; beginning to doubt to Materials Entering into Public Work which whether there is a justification for the great Interfere with Interstate Commerce and the inequalities in the distribution of wealth, for Privileges or Immunities of Citizens of Other the rapid creation of fortunes, more mysteri States," by Eugene McMillin, Central Law ous than the deeds of Aladdin's lamp. The Journal (V. Ixi, p. 69). people have begun to think; and they show evidences on all sides of a tendency to act. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (Constitu Those of you who have not had an opportunity tional Law). "Restricting Competition in of talking much with laboring men can hardly Contracts for Public Work — Test of Valid form a conception of the amount of thinking ity," by Eugene McMillin, Central Law Jour that they are doing. With many it is the all- nal (V. Ixi, p. 204). absorbing occupation, the only thing that occupies their minds. Many of these men, NEGLIGENCE. "Proximate and Remote otherwise uneducated, talk about the relation Cause," by Silas Alward, Canada Law Journal of employer and employe" far more intelligently (V. xli, p. 585). than most of the best educated men in the community. The labor question involves for them the whole of life and they must, in the PERSONS (Legitimacy, English Legacy Du course of a comparatively short time, realize ties). -W. P. W. Phillimore concludes in the the power which lies in them. Many of their August Law Quarterly Review (V. xxx, p. 422) leaders are men of signal ability, men who his interesting argument entitled "Nullius can hold their own in discussion or action with Filius: 'The Stranger in Blood,'" against the the ablest and best educated men in the com validity of a long-established ruling of the munity. The labor movement must neces officials of the English Inland Revenue Office, sarily progress; the people's thought will take classifying illegitimate children as "strangers shape in action, and it lies with us, with you in blood," and requiring them to pay the to whom in part the future belongs, to say on higher duty under the Legacy Duty Act. what lines the action is to be expressed, This ruling the author shows is based on too whether it is to be expressed wisely and literal an interpretation of the old Latin temperately, or wildly and intemperately; phrase "nullius filius." He regards it as