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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT indisputable success. The legislation in Eng land registers the protest of the English people against the interpretations of the courts. Dissatisfaction is felt in New York. It is not alone the fact that common carriers are pur suing a public employment that should pre vent their making contracts limiting their lia bility for negligence — there are other public employments perfectly compatible with abso lute limitations of such liability — it is more because of the magnitude of the business, its monopolistic character, and the conditions and dangers surrounding its management." BIOGRAPHY. "James A. Reid, Dean of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow," Anon., Scottish Law Review (V. 23, p. 37). CARRIERS. " A Treatise on the Law of Carriers as administered in the Courts of the United States, Canada and England," by Robert Hutchinson, Third Edition, by J. Scott Matthews and William F. Dickinson of the Chicago Bar, 8 vo. Vols. Ill, pages ccc xxi, 2350, Chicago, Callaghan & Co., 1906. Hutchinson on Carriers has long been recog nized as the standard American treatise on this subject. Unfortunately, Mr. Hutchinson •died even before the first edition was actually given to the public. All the work since then, consequently, has had to be done by other hands. The second edition, published fifteen years ago, was edited by Professor Mechem, and that edition maintained and added to the already high reputation of the work. In the years since this second edition many other works on carriers have been published, but though many of them have been of some value none approached Hutchinson. A new edition of this work is, therefore, very welcome to the profession. The particular changes made in this edition are set forth in detail in the editors' note, and it would serve no useful purpose to recapitu late them here. Suffice it to say the editors have maintained, without change, the chapter and sub-chapter divisions of the previous edition. The changes have been in the insertion of additional sections within the chapters and the expansion or rearrangement of other sections. An examination of some of the sections added by the editors of this edition shows that they have modeled their work on Mr. Hutchinson's. They have given

in those sections a statement of principles and not merely a statement of the findings in particular cases. Although the second edition was in one volume, and this in three, the text has not been expanded in the same proportion. The thickness of the paper used and a slight change in the setting of the type account for part, and a very much larger index and increased table of cases account for a still greater part. It should be noted, however, that whereas in the second edition there were 818 sections, there are in this edition 1446. The number of cases in the second edition was approximately 5,000; in this edition they are double that number. The editors have used good discrimination in the cases which they have added, but they seem to have included all new cases of impor tance. The editors have perhaps wisely excluded all street railway cases. The makeup .of this work is excellent. The references in the table of contents, in the table of cases cited, and in the index, are to sections, thus avoiding confusion by uni formity. At the beginning of the first volume, there is a table of contents of all three volumes, and in each of the other two volumes there is a table of contents for the particular volume. Considering the size of the work, this will make the volumes more readily usable. There is, furthermore, a detailed table of the contents at the beginning of each chapter. The index in the third volume is one of the most elaborate, if not the most elaborate, which the reviewer has seen, covering as it does six hundred pages. It is fair to say that by the use of this index any topic in the law of carriers treated in this work can be found. Only one criticism of the index may be made, and that is that the sub-headings are not arranged alphabetically, nor do they begin with the significant word. This makes it necessary to read through all of the sub-headings in order to find the par ticular one that the user wishes. Taken all in all this work is one of the most valuable that has recently been published, and no practitioner can well afford to be without it if his practice brings to him questions in the law of carriers. S. H. E. F. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " Federal Em ployers' Liability Act Unconstitutional," by Walter Evans, Judge, Law Notes (V. x, p. 208).