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legal interest, as the Johnson Impeachment outline Professor Beale traces the history of was chiefly of political interest, the narrative the inn in early times and the beginnings of will interest lawyers and serve to emphasize the law of inns. He also defines carefully and the breadth of our professional field. at length at the outset, what an inn is, and he INNKEEPERS. "The Law of Innkeepers distinguishes it from other houses of enter and Hotels, including other public houses, tainment, which do not profess a public call theatres, sleeping cars," by Joseph Henry ing, and hence do not fall within the law of Beale, Jr., Bussey Professor of Law in Har innkeepers. The text devoted to the primary subject of vard University, pp. xviii, 621, 8 vo. William innkeepers covers two hundred and one pages; J. Nagel, Boston, 1906. Case law is growing so rapidly that without that to boarding houses, restaurants, and the aid of treatises, it is impossible for the theaters about seventy pages; and that to practitioner to feel sure that he has secured sleeping cars, about thirty-five; from which it will be seen that about one-third of the text is all or nearly all of the authority on his particu lar point. He is in fact dependent for his given to the kindred and analogous subjects, and not strictly to the law of innkeepers. authorities on the law writer. Since speciali However, the author, both on his back titles zation has invaded the law as it has other pro fessions, the lawyer needs, still more, books in and title page sufficiently indicates this. A very full collection of statutes of the his particular field. This need is recognized several states dealing with inns and innkeepers by the encyclopaedia makers; and their judg ment is confirmed by the extensive use of the is made in an appendix of some two hundred encyclopaedias. But we need something more and thirty pages. About fifteen hundred extensive than encyclopaedic articles. We cases are cited in footnotes to the text. The index is adequate. need text books, instead of articles. Professor Beale has given an interesting Professor Beale, too, has recognized this need and suggestive book, worked out on a con in offering to the profession a book on the law of innkeepers. Years ago the law on this sistent theory, and one which cannot fail to subject would have been included, as it was be helpful both to practitioners and students. S. H. E. F. by Story, in a treatise on bailments, yet it can not be said that the innkeeper is distinctly or INTERNATIONAL LAW. " The Interna essentially a bailee. The law of innkeepers' tional Law and Diplomacy of the Russorights and liabilities depends in its last analy Japanese War," by Amos S. Hershey, the ses, as Professor Beale points out, on the fact MacMillan Company, New York, 1906. Price that the innkeeper is engaged in public service. S3. 00 net. Professor Beale's contributions to the law of This interesting work of Mr. Hershey's is an public service are many and important, and by expansion and revision of the series of articles his book, showing that law in one of its narrow which he originally published in this magazine applications, he adds one more. during the progress of the war, and, therefore, The main titles into which the book is needs no further introduction to our readers. divided are: I. The Public Calling of the INTERNATIONAL LAW. The third session Innkeeper; II. The Public Duty of the Inn of the International Conference of American keeper; III. The Undertaking of the Inn keeper; the Beginning of Responsibility; the States, held at Rio de Janeiro in July, and Extent of Responsibility; the End of Respon attended by representatives of twenty-one sibility; IV. Compensation and Lieu; and V. countries, resolved formally " to recommend Remedies against Innkeepers. In addition to to the governments represented therein that this, Professor Beale considers other public they consider the point of inviting the Second houses, such as the boarding house, the restau Peace Conference at The Hague to consider rant, the theater; he also devotes four chapters the question of the compulsory collection of to sleeping cars, and adds two chapters con public debts; and, in general, means tending cerning statutes affecting innkeepers. to diminish between nations conflicts having In a brief but interesting and convincing an exclusively pecuniary origin."