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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT FOR our sketch of Mr. Hughes we are in debted to a native of Wilmington, N.C., and a graduate of the law department of the University of Michi gan. After a few years of practice in Detroit. Mr. Russell became a member of the firm of Carter, Hughes, and Dwight, of New York. He is now a mem ber of the firm of McLaughlin, Russell, Coe, and Sprague. LINDSAY RUSSELL

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versity and the Harvard Law School. After a few years of practice in Boston, in 1903 he was appointed professor of law at the law school of the University of Wisconsin. His study of the regulation of prices was made in connection with his course on the Police Power. THOUGH the impossibility of getting prompt and adequate reviews of new books by capable and impartial reviewers has compelled us to abandon the customary formal book reviews, it is our wish to publish from time to time some more extended notice of important publica tions by way of discussion of the subject treated. The publication of the first treatise on the very modern subject of lynch law seemed to deserve such consideration. Mr. Mowry was born in Rhode Island, but has always lived in Wisconsin. He is a gradu ate of this law school of the University of Wisconsin, and has been active in the discus sion of many public questions.

As an example of the possibilities afforded by the technicalities of procedure when counsel are striving for delay, the case of Greene and Gaynor is a master piece. It is such cases as this that breed distrust of the AT this time of year when the ward boss certainty of justice. lines up his cohorts and the courts of justice Mr. Barnard was are blocked and burdened with the clerical raised in Savannah, work of wholesale and from his early associations has be.en naturalization, it is especially interested in worth while to consider the case which he so the law of naturaliza graphically describes. tion as expounded by He is a Harvard Judge Stockbridge in man, but studied law his address to the WILLIAM I.AMI'.I i, i HAKNARD at Boston University. Maryland Bar Associa Since receiving his tion. Mr. Stockbridge is LL.B.. he has always practiced in Boston, a graduate of Amwhere he has attained a reputation as a per herst and the Law sistent advocate. School of the Univer sity of Maryland. In Htm. HENRY STOCKRRIDCE IN the arguments advanced in support of 1882 he was appointed many schemes for control of industrial monop one of the examiners olies and public utilities it has often been in chancery for the equity courts of Balti asserted that state regulation of prices would more City, and held that position till he was be but a reversion to first principles. The elected to Congress in 1888. In 1896, he was evidence in support of this collected by Mr. elected an associate judge of the Supreme Gilmore will be of interest to all who deal Bench of Baltimore. In 1899 he was made with the legal phases of modern problems. instructor at the law school of the Univer Mr. Gilmore is a graduate of De Pauw Uni- sity of Maryland.