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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT He also discusses the old distinction between "universal, general, and special agencies," and shews that they have a foundation in fact but not in law. He concludes by discussing the duty of persons dealing with an agent to ascer tain the extent of his authority. BIOGRAPHY (Lincoln). A further chapter of Frederick Trevor Hill's " Lincoln the Law yer " appears in the April Century Magazine (V. Ixxi, p. 939). He discusses Lincoln as a jury lawyer. Undoubtedly his knowledge of human nature played an important part in his success. He possessed another quality, however, which is almost, if not quite, as essen tial in jury work, and that is clearness and simplicity of statement. He was quick to get at the kernel of a case. Wit and ridicule were his chief weapons. Even in those days when there were no shorthand reporters he rarely took notes. The author then cites many in stances of his great skill as a cross-examiner. He was not well qualified for work in the criminal courts, but in some cases of great im portance where his sympathies were strongly aroused he scored great successes. His stand ard of ethics in this practice was in keeping with the methods described in previous chap ters. The superficial impressions of his methods gained from current anecdotes is combatted by the author in a full explanation of Lincoln's handling of very important law cases for the great railroads of Illinois. BIOGRAPHY (Porter). An interesting account of " Alexander Porter," a judge of the first Supreme Court of Louisiana and later a United States senator, by William Wirt Howe, is published in the April Colum bia Law Review (V. vi, p. 237). BIOGRAPHY (Stanley). " Sir John Stan ley," by S. C. Dey, Bombay Law Reporter (V. viii, p. 65). CONFLICT OF LAW (Crimes). "Jurisdic tion of the Courts of one State over an Act of Bigamy in Another State." The Collins Case, by H. M. Hanson, Central Law Journal (V. P- 216). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. An interesting history of proceedings leading to " The Loca tion of the Federal Capital in the United

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States " with a brief discussion of the diffi culties of interpreting the similar Australian clause, by A. Inglis Clark, appears in the Janu ary Commonwealth Law Review (V. iii, p. 115). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. An article en titled " Section 117 of the Constitution," by F. L. Stow, in the January Commonwealth Law Review (V. iii, p. 97), discusses a provision in the Australian Constitution forbidding discrim ination by one state against citizens nf an other. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " Notes on the Constitution of the United States, showing the Construction and Operation of the Constitu tion as determined by the Federal Supreme Court and Containing References to Illustra tive Cases from the Inferior Federal Courts and State Courts," by William A. Sutherland, of the California Bar, San Francisco. Ban croft-Whitney Company, 1904. pp. xv, 974. In this book the author has undertaken to state briefly the construction that has been given to and the application that has been made of every clause of the Constitution by the decisions of the courts. There is no at tempt to give a history of the development of the constitutional law of the United States nor a philosophical discussion of the theories or principles. Taking the Constitution clause by clause, the author states briefly what has been decided with regard to it, and references are made to the decisions of the Supreme Court and to illustrative cases in the inferior federal courts and in the state courts, and the result is a compact digest of the authoritative deci sions and a statement of the conclusions reached by the courts on every disputed ques tion that has arisen with regard to every clause of the constitution. The statements are terse and clear, and taken together they form a brief, orderly, and comprehensive account of the judicial explanation and application of the successive clauses of the Constitution. The course of reasoning by which the. conclusions have been reached is not given, and there is no discussion of the development of the law nor of the tendency of judicial opinion on the practical or political questions involved, but within the scope of the plan adopted; the work is well done, and brief as the notes are they fill more than eight hundred pages, and the