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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, facetice, and anecdotes.

CURRENT LEGAL LITERATURE TTiis 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 us for review.

ATTORNEYS. " The Authority of a Solicitor to Receive Money in Conveyancing Business." by Goodwin Gibson, Canada Law Journal (V. xlii, p. 577). BANKRUPTCY. A Digest of the Bank ruptcy Decisions under the national bank ruptcy act of 1898 reported in the American Bankruptcy Reports, Vols. i to 44 inclusive, by Melvin T. Bender and Harold J. Hinman, Matthew Bender & Co., Albany, New York, 1906. Pp. 560. Price, $5.00. The publishers state that this is the only complete digest of bankruptcy decisions under the act of 1898. BIOGRAPHY. " R. L. Stevenson as an Advocate," by " R. A. B.," Scottish Law Re view (V. xxii, p. 285). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " Public Regu lation of Bill-Boards," by Harold W. Eldridge, The Brief (V. vi, p. 207). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " The Power of Congress to Regulate Interstate Insurance Transactions," by " T. H. C.," Law Notes (V. x, p. 124). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. A severe ar raignment of the Dartmouth College Case by John Z. White is published in the St. Louis Mirror (V. xvi, p. 5). His thesis is that the new radical proposals of government ownership and taxation of corporate franchises will find a stumbling-block in this decision; that the decision is illogical and wrong and due to the

dominating toryism of John Marshall; that the power to regulate corporations is really inherent in state sovereignty and that the decision should be reversed. One striking phrase bears much truth. The author says, " The people think they live under the Constitution. In fact, they live under Marshall's decisions."

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (History). "The Constitutional History of New York, from the Beginning of the Colonial Period to the year 1905, showing the Origin, Development, and Judicial Construction of the Constitution," by Charles Z. Lincoln. In five volumes. Roches ter, N. Y. The Lawyers' Cooperative Publish ing Company. 1906. pp. xxx, 756; xvii, 725; xviii, 757; xxvi, 800; 550. 8vo. These five volumes contain a valuable collec tion of material relating to the constitution of the state of New York, together with a consid erable amount of informing comment and nar rative. From page 410 of the first volume to the end of the third volume the text consists of a chronological history beginning with the colonial period and ending with the constitu tional convention of 1894. The rest of the space is devoted mainly to reprints, annota tions, tables, and indices. Especially valuable among these are the exhaustive annotations contained in the fourth volume and the list of statutes held either constitutional or unconsti tutional contained in the fifth volume. For the busy lawyer searching for authorities vol umes four and five will be especially valuable, while the more leisurely student will be able to trace in the first three volumes the history and development of constitutional doctrines.