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CONTRACTS. " Risk in Goods during Tran sit under a ' C. I. F.' Contract," by J. Meillon, Commonwealth Law Review (V. iii, p. 241). CONTRACTS (Sales). " The Law of Usury as Affecting Transactions Between Factors or Commission Companies and Their Customers or Clients," by J. E. Cobbey, Central Law Journal (V. xvi, p. 302). CORPORATIONS. " The Liability of the Associates in a Defective Corporation," by Thomas H. Breeze in the November Yale Law Journal (V. xvi, p. i), suggests, as coming within the reason of the law, a rule that to secure the members the limited liability of shareholders all acts which the legislature has provided shall be done for the purpose of protecting the public in its dealings with the future corporation must be substantially done. CORPORATIONS (Railroads). " A Criti cism of the Railroad Corporation Law of Pennsylvania," by Morris Wolf in the Sep tember and October numbers of the American Law Register (V. liv, pp. 501, 582), examines the Pennsylvania statutes and pleads for a thorough revision and correction. CORPORATIONS (see Constitutional Law). CRIMINAL LAW. "Accomplices in Thefts," by " M. L. T.," Criminal Law Journal (V. iv, p. 73). CRIMINAL LAW. " Justice and Crime in Abyssinia," by Maynard Shipley, American Law Review (V. xl, p. 721). ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. " A Curiosity in Ecclesiastical Law," by Rev. Samuel Hart in the November Yale Law Journal (V. xvi, p. 40), tells of the church trial in 1837, of Dr. Benjamin B. Smith, Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. EDUCATION. " The Function of the State University Law School," by Alexander A. Bruce in the November Michigan Law Review (V: v, p. i), pleads for the recognition of such schools as schools of citizenship, rather than factories for producing lawyers, and protests against the idea that the law department alone of a state univ ersity must be self-supporting. ESSAYS. " Stray Notes of Parsons and Religion," by R. Vashon Rogers, Canadian 'Law Reineu' (V. v, p. 384).

ESSAYS. " In and Out of Court," by Charles Morse, Canadian Law Review (V. v, P- 377)EVIDENCE (Witnesses). " Uncontradicted Testimony of Interested Witnesses," by " C. C. M.," Law Notes (V. x, p. 147). EVIDENCE (Criminal Law). " Testimony of Witness, Since Deceased, on Former Trial of Criminal Case," Anon., Virginia Law Register (V. xii, p. 515). EVIDENCE (Declarations). "Admissibility of Declarations of the Insured Against the Beneficiary," by Albert M. Kales, Novem ber Columbia Law Review (V. vi, p. 509). EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS (see Partnership). HISTORY. " The Growth, Aggressiveness and Permanent Character of Anglo-Saxon Laws and Institutions," by A. W. Gaines. A paper read before the Tennessee State Bar Association, August 10, 1906, American Law Review (V. xl, p. 694). HISTORY. " Reminiscences of Gasglow Sheriff Court," by " G. B. Y." Scottish Law Review (V. xxii, p. 316). HISTORY (Crime). " The Case of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey," by John Pollock, Law Quarterly Rnnew (V. xxii, p. .431). HISTORY (Johnson Impeachment). Under the title of " Decisive Battles of the Law." Frederick Trevor Hill in an interesting style describes, " The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson," in the November Harper's (p. 827). The discussion of the legal issues involved in the impeachment is very brief but shows that the author is emphatically of the opinion that the attempt of the House to punish the President was unjustifiable. The account of the procedure of the trial and the descriptions of the counsel on each side are the parts of the article that will chiefly interest lawyers, though the description of the scene from the point of view of the spectators will interest all. HISTORY. " The Declaration of Indepen dence; Its History," by John H. Hazleton, Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., 1906, is in form a compilation rather than a treatise, being a collection of extracts culled from the corres pondence and other fragmentary writings of the time, with but little from the author's own pen and that little as a rule explanatory and