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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT some modifications of the text of the former editions, but in general the treatment of the subject adopted in the former editions is con tinued, and the new decisions added in the notes. In addition to the general index each chapter begins with a synopsis for conven ience of reference. The arrangement of the book follows the order of the sections of the statute in the form of commentaries. Al though this somewhat hinders a discussion based upon the broadest principles and requires some repetition and cross reference, the arrangement is doubtless most convenient for the purposes of the practitioner. BANKRUPTCY (Separate Estates of Part ners). " The Separate Estate of Non-Bank rupt Partners in the Bankruptcy of a Part nership Under the Bankrupt Act of 1898," by J. D. Brannan, June Harvard Law Review (V. xx, p. 589). " Assuming the firm to be an entity under the Bankrupt Act " this article considers " the question of the treat ment of the firm and individual estates where the firm alone has been made a bankrupt." Space forbids analysis of this suggestive and valuable article. BIOGRAPHY. " John H. Fulton," by Rob ert C. Jackson, June Virginia Law Register (V. xiii, p. 89). BIOGRAPHY. "Christopher Columbus Langdell," by William Schofield, May Ameri can Law Register (V. lv, p. 273). BIOGRAPHY. " Frederick William Maitland," by D. P. Heatley, April Juridical Review (V. xix, p. 1). BIOGRAPHY. " The Centenary of Samuel Warren " (author of the famous legal novel, "Ten Thousand a. Year") by Lewis Melville, the June Bookman (V. xxv, p. 412). BIOGRAPHY. " Judge Jacob W. Wilkin," by Isaac N. Phillips and Orrin N. Carter, June Illinois Law Rei^iew (V. ii, pp. 67, 77). BOYCOTTS. "Evolution of the Law Relating to Boycotts," by Robert L. McWil liams, in the May-June American Law Review (V. xli, p. 336), after examining the cases, which, as is usual, are not all in agreement, sums up briefly as follows: "1. The rights connected with business being only relative, any damage done by one or more persons to the business of another by the use of the boycott, for the purpose of

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benefiting the person or persons inflicting the loss, and effected by means that are not un lawful per se should not be held actionable. 2. But the justification which exists when the boycott is effectuated under the circumstances stated, disappears when unlawful means are employed, and a cause of action thereupon accrues to the person suffering the loss. 3. Where no legitimate interest is being sub served, but the boycotters are inspired pri marily by malice or a desire to injure the complainant, a cause of action also accrues regardless of the nature of the means employed." CIVIL CODES (Brazil). " Le Projet de Code Civil Du Br6sil et Le Droit Interna tional Priv6," by Solidonio Leite, Revue de Droit International Privi (V. iii, p. 377). A short analysis of Brazil's proposed civil code, on which a commission has been working for several years, with verbatim quotation of the systemization of the conflict of laws. "COMMERCIAL LAW," condensed and tabulated by Adolph M. Schwartz. A hand book for those interested in credits and collec tions. Privately printed, New York, N. Y. CONFLICT OF LAWS. " Suits by Foreign Corporations," by Raymond D. Thurber, Bench and Bar (V. ix, p. 54). CONFLICT OF LAWS (Renvoi). "La Thr one du Renvoi en Droit International Priv6," by A. Lain6, Revue de Droit International Privi (V. iii, p. 313). Continuing a discus sion of the renvoi theory, to be still further developed. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " ' Truck Acts,' ' Scrip Laws, 'and ' Pluck-me-Stores,' " by O. H. Myrick, Central Law Journal (V. lxiv, p. 387). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Courts and the Railroad Question," by M. C. Freerks, Central Law Journal (V. lxiv, p. 647). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Due Process). "Due Process of Law," by Hannis Taylor, in the May-June American Law Review (V. xli, p. 354). ' A resume1 of the United States Supreme Court decisions on the subject, con cluding with the prophecy that " in the important contests now arising under state laws designed to assert state control, in a more extreme form than ever before, over railroad corporations, the due process of law clause is destined to be the dominating factor."