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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT By Norman F. Hesseltine. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1906. pp. xvliii. 390, 8vo. This is properly entitled a digest; it does not purport to be anything else than a useful manual for the practitioner. As the author says in his preface of it: "This book states concisely the principles of the law of trade marks and unfair trade for ready application by the lawyer. The legal professor now wants the law and cases, not pages of text book discussion." It must be admitted that the work that the author has set out to do he has done excellently. The judges are allowed to speak for themselves, extracts being made from all the cases of any im portance. These extracts are arranged by topics and subtopics; and the divisional headings are elaborate black letter sentences and phrases, so that despite himself the author does some good treatise work. There are but few branches of the commercial law which need working out into detail so much as this most important question of the limits of fair trade. A much advertised trade-mark or catch word, a name long before the public or a package to which purchasers are used — these are of such value in the selling of goods that there will always be those who will attempt to get the good will of a competitor by unfair means. But the law to-day seems to be adequate to deal with this as with other industrial wrongs. B. W. EQUITY (see Insurance). HISTORY. "The Earliest Courts of the Illinois Country," by George A. Dupuy, Illinois Law Review (V. i, p. 81). HISTORY (Mass.). Brief accounts of emi nent Massachusetts lawyers, including Chief Justices Shaw, Gray, Holmes; Judge Curtis, and the Dred Scott case; Richard H. Dana's fight over a fugitive slave; John A. Andrew and the impeachment of Judge Loring; Judge Aldrich and the duty of a Christian; and some old-time district attorneys, in a brief article by Stephen O. Sherman and Weston F. Hutchins, entitled, " The Massachusetts Bench and Bar," appears in the June New England Magazine (V. xxxiv, p. 433).

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HISTORY (Philadelphia). "Centennial Volume." Addresses delivered March 13, 1902, and papers prepared or republished to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Law Association of Philadelphia, contains many interesting biographical sketches and excellent engravings of the early leaders of the Philadelphia Bar. The edition is limited. INSURANCE (Equity, Contracts). In the Central Law Journal (V. 62, p. 417) M. C. Freerks discusses " The Right of an Injured Employee to Enforce Collection of a Judg ment for Damage for Personal Injury against an Insolvent Employer in an Action against an Insurance Company, which has Insured the Employer against Claims of this Character under what is Known as Employer's Lia bility Insurance." The author believes that in equity even under the severer terms of the most recent form of liability policy the em ployee can reach this asset of a bankrupt employer, on the ground that the employee is a beneficiary. He also cites the analogy of policies of reinsurance. INSURANCE (Foreign Corporations). "Rights and Liabilities of Foreign Insurance Companies in Canada," by E. Lafleur, K. C., Canadian Law Review (V. v, p. 249). INTERNATIONAL LAW. " International Law with Illustrative Cases," by Edwin Maxey, M. Dip., D.C.L., LL.D., Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Law Department West Virginia University. The F. H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1906. Professor Maxey graduated at the Chicago Law School ten years ago, and within four years had been so fortunate as to obtain two masters' degrees and two doctorates. For the past three years he has been a professor of law at the University of West Virginia. The present is a work of about eight hun dred pages in ordinary law book size and binding, which is the result of Professor Maxey 's experience in teaching international law. It aims to combine a statement of the leading cases with an ample text upon the subject in the belief that such a work will meet the need of law students better than any work on the subject previously extant.