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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT editor has been very carefully done. The difficult portions of the subject have been adequately covered by the discussion, and the book may be recommended as of the utmost value for lawyers who have occasion to inves tigate the subject covered. The general principles of criminal law, as applicable to prosecution for homicide, are first stated: these include questions of causa tion, responsibility, and parties. The nature of murder and manslaughter and the differ ences between the two offenses are then con sidered; next, questions of justification. After these general investigations the editor deals with various cases of homicide, and finally examines the rules which regulate the precedure in prosecutions for homicide. There is an adequate index, and the table of con tents forms a useful analysis of the whole subject. If all Dr. Wharton's books, of which the Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co. is now bringing out new editions, are as well edited as this one, the profession will have cause to be thankful to that corporation for its enterprise in re-issuing the' series. — J. H. B.

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hensive rather than exhaustive. The whole field of the law is covered, but cases which are simply. reiterations of established and familiar principles are not included. An im portant feature is the cumulative index pub lished with each number. It embraces all the numbers of Cream of the Law issued for the year, and refers to notes in other collec tions of cases and to articles in the leading law journals. The numbers make interest ing reading because of the fact that only new matter is presented, and we believe that the indexes will prove to be of value. DIVORCE. " Uniform Law Relating to Annulment of Marriage and Divorce," by Walter George Smith, Central Law Journal (V. lxiv, p. 229). EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY. "The Doc trine of Common Employment in England and Canada," by J. P. Macgregor, Canadian Law Review (V. vi, p. no).

CRIMINAL LAW. "The Thaw Case," by Wm. L. Clark, Canadian Law Review (V. vi, p. 100).

EQUITY PROCEDURE. "The Law and Practice of Interpleader in the High Court and County Courts, with Forms," by S. P. J. Merlin, Butterworth & Co., London, Eng. This little book is a manual for English prac titioners, which will hardly be of assistance to practitioners in this country.

DIGESTS. " Cream of the Law." Vol umes I and II (1905 and 1906) and No. 1 of Volume III. Edited by Emerson E. Bal lard, Cream of the Law Company. Crawfordsville, Indiana. This legal quarterly presents to the pro fession in compact form a great number of recent and interesting cases, the professed aim of the publisher being to keep the sub scriber constantly informed of those decisions forming part of the growth of the law. The style of the work is unique. There is, properly speaking, no text. Neither is the work a collection of cases printed in full. Under appropriate headings the decision in each case treated is briefly stated, and there fol lows a quotation from the opinion of the court, varying in length with the importance of the respective cases. Sometimes there is simply a quotation of the cases referred to by the court, and occasionally an allied case is stated by the editor. The work is compre

ETHICS. "The Bench and Bar in their Relation' to the People and the Corporations," by J. .Aspinwall Hodge, Albany Law Journal (V. lxix, p. 54). FRAUD (Statute of Frauds). " A Treatise on the Law of Frauds and the Statute of Frauds," by John W. Smith. The BobbsMerrill Company, Indianapolis, 1907. The first part of this book is a treatise upon fraud in general, including deceit, fraud in fiduciary relations, equitable remedies for fraud, and fraudulent conveyances. The second part of the book relates to the Statute of Frauds, and includes, in addition to a consideration of the general law on this subject, a collection of the statutes of England and the different states, together with summaries of the decisions under those statutes, arranged by states. Though the first part of the book is not exhaustive, it is a satisfactory and correct summary of the law, illustrated by recent decisions, and was found useful by the reviewer in his prac