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THE GREEN BAG

The proceedings of the conventions and com missions that have assembled for the purpose of revising the constitution are given in great detail, and the proceedings of the convention of 1894, which framed the present constitution, are so fully set forth that the whole of volume three is devoted to them. While some omis sion and compression of this kind of material might have rendered the book more readable, the inclusion of it will be useful to many who may not have access to the printed proceedings of the conventions. The author has shown great industry in the collection of material, and one cannot but re gret that for the aid of later investigators foot note references are not given to the sources. With such aids these volumes, already a great storehouse of documents and authorities, would have been doubly valuable. Even without them future historians of the constitution, as well as present day workers, will find them selves constantly indebted to Mr. Lincoln's painstaking industry. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (see Employers' Liability). COPYRIGHT (see Patents). CORPORATIONS. " Modern Business Cor porations," by William Allen Wood, with forms by Lewis P. Ewbank. The Bobbs-Merrill Com pany, Indianapolis, 1906. This is a conven ient account of corporate organization and management, which will be especially valuable to young lawyers unfamiliar with the actual practice of business men and corporate finan ciers. The book is so clearly and simply writ ten that it should also be very instructive to business men who are contemplating incorpo ration. It is not intended as a text-book and contains no citations of authorities, though occasionally quoting from text-books on cor porations, but it states succinctly the leading principles of corporation law. The most im portant parts of the book relate to corporate finance with which lawyers who have not served apprenticeship in offices having large corporate practice are very unfamiliar. The forms, though not numerous, are well selected for purposes of illustration. The appendix contains many tabulations of state fees and

other statutory requirements that will be very instructive to lawyers who are forming corpo rations. CORPORATIONS. '" Commencement of Winding-Up Proceedings," by Frank E. Hodgins, Canadian Law Times (V. xxvi, p. 627). CORPORATIONS (see Constitutional Law). CRIMINAL LAW. " The Ethics of Corporal Punishment," by Henry S. Salt, Criminal Law Journal of India (V. iv, p. 52). DAMAGES. " Damages for Mental juries," Bench and Bar (V. vi, p. 92).

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ELEMENTARY LAW. " The Foundations of Legal Liability — A Presentation of the Theory and Development of the Common Law," by Thomas Atkins Street. The Ed ward Thompson Company, Northport, New York. 1906. Three volumes. Price, $15.00. The first volume of this rather ambitious work deals with Torts, the second with Con tracts — including Bailments, Bills, and Notes and Agency — and the third with Pleading. The subjects are not treated in such a way as to render the volumes useful in daily practice, for the discussion is theoretical, historical, and scholarly in form. Nor are the volumes adapted to class-room use, for they do not cover the whole, nor even nearly the whole, of the selected subjects. The reader aimed at is obviously a person of maturity and of scholarly tastes — probably a teacher of law. Such a reader will find in these volumes much to ap prove and much to disapprove. In thoroughly competent hands the plan adopted would lead to desirable results. The principal part of the plan appears to be to present in systematic form the light which has been cast upon a few elementary subjects by the researches made by scholars within the last fifty years. To this end the author has studied the books of Sir Henry Maine, Sir Frederick Pollock, Professor Maitland, Professor Langdell, and Mr. Justice Holmes, and also numerous scholarly contribu tions to periodicals. As the light of the new learning, derived from combining investiga tions into primitive law with careful study of reported cases, has not yet been carried into