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 THE GARY COLLECTION the inclination and the demand. This library will make it possible to satisfy such needs. In the second place, the history of our own Anglo-American law, directly rooted as it is in the history of the Teutonic peoples, re quires for its investigators an acquaintance with the early legal ideas of Germany, France, and Scandinavia. The work of Brunner,

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The varied immigrant population of this country, especially in the Central West and the Northwest, has created a need for it. In the city of Chicago alone the foreign-born population reaches these figures : Bohemians, 36,000; Dutch, 19,000; Poles, 60,000; Danes, 10,000; Hungarians, 5,000; Germans, 170,ooo; Italians, 16,000; Russians, 25,000; Norwegians, 22,000; Swedes, 49,000; others

THE LIBRARY OF THE LAW SCHOOL OP NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Heusler, Stobbe, v. Amira, and Esmein, forms the preface to the work of Ames, Maitland, Pollock, and Thayer. A complete library of American law must include the his tory of French, German, and Scandinavian law. This is essential if a sound legal scholarship is to be built up in the West. In the third place, and in one aspect most important of all, the daily practice of the law is profitably served by this collection

not British, 40,000. Among this large popu lation of foreign birth (and those of foreign parentage will increase these figures) many individuals from time to time become affected by legal questions of inheritance, of marriage, of commercial paper, of military service, and of other sorts, in which the tenor of the law of a foreign country is material or decisive. Hitherto, in such cases, either the investigation of that law has been fore-