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 The Green Bag PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT $4.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE NUMBERS 50 CENTS. Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, S. R. WRIGHTINGTON, 31 State Street, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities, facetiae, and anecdotes.

CURRENT LEGAL LITERATURE This department is designed to call attention to the articles in all the leading legal periodicals of the preceding month and to new law books sent usfor review.

ADMIRALTY. James D. Dewell, Jr., in the completely in domination of his life. He was June Yale Law Journal (V. xv, p. 394) writes essentially an intellect." of " Partition of a Vessel in Admiralty." He BIOGRAPHY (Moran). " Our District At calls attention to the fact that " admiralty will not take jurisdiction for the partition torney," by Vere Goldthwaite, New England and licitation of a vessel unless there are Magazine (V. xxxiv, p. 450). equal part owners who cannot agree and their CHATTEL MORTGAGES (see Sales). differences are irreconcilable, because if the owners are not equal the majority rules." CONFLICT OF LAWS (see Constitutional He then proceeds to show that in such a case a claimant can probably give a bond and Law, Divorce, Insurance). obtain a release of the vessel, though there is CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Legal little on it in the books. He further con tends that though admiralty will not take Status of the Indians in the United States," jurisdiction of mere matters of account it will by Clinton R. Flynn, Central Law Journal as incidental to the sale and partition. (V. Ixii, p. 399). BIOGRAPHY. Judge Dillon's speech at the dinner of the Iowa Society of New York entitled " Early Iowa Judges and Lawyers" which is printed in the May American Law Review (V. xl, p. 377), consists of brief sketches' of Chief Justice Mason, Chief Justice Wright, Judge Miller, and Judge Love. BIOGRAPHY (Benjamin). An address by Burton Hanson before the Wisconsin Bar Association on Judah Phillip Benjamin is printed in the May American Law Review (V. xl, p. 331). It contains an interesting summary of his brilliant legal career both in this country before the war and in England when at the age of fifty and in the face of great adversity he began a new career which ended with a remarkable recognition of his ability by our English brethren. As the author says, " Benjamin's mind was always

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " The Next Con stitutional Convention of the United States," by Mr. Justice Clark, Albany Law Journal (V. Ixviii, p. 145). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " Special Legis lation as Defined in the Illinois Cases," by Albert M. Kales, Illinois Law Review (V'. i, p. 63). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Great Usurpation " is the title of an article by Wil liam Trickett in the May American Law Re view (V. xl, p. 356), which argues that the assumption by the judges of the right to de clare statutes unconstitutional was contrary to the real intention of the framers of the Con stitution who expressly rejected such a pro vision, and that it is no more right for the judiciary which is but part of the executive