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stockholders were children or insane people. If the learned reader desires a book to which he may turn and find to his gratification that the last case that went against him was erro neously decided, let him go to Thompson's Commentaries rather than to Tiffany's Clark; but if he wishes to review in brief form the law of corporations as it is, or if a student wishes to work up the subject by himself, he will get much of real value from the volume under discussion. For office practice the work, though a handbook of but 700 pages, will be serviceable, for it cites some 2500 authorities, has a table of cases, and a good index. The literary style is sometimes marred by confused English. W. A. R. COURTS. (English and American). " A Comparison between English and American Appellate Courts " by Thomas H. Hardcastle, in the June American Lawyer (V. xv, p. 261), admitting the superiority of the English courts in their celerity of decision, finds the reasons therefore in the following: (a) Fewer number of cases appealed. (b) Larger number of judges. (c) Very much larger judicial salaries. (d) A simplified and settled course of pleadng and practice. (e) No criminal appeals. No original jurisdiction in Appellate Courts. (g) The universal high standard of training and learning among the English Bar and Bench. CRIMINAL LAW. "The Criminal Appeal Bill." A Symposium, The Law Journal (V. xlii, p. 406). CRIMINAL LAW. " The Thaw Trial," by Samuel J. Barrows, Charities (V. xviii, p. 95). CRIMINAL LAW. " The Trial of Thaw as seen by a Juror," by Juror Number Six, The Brief (V. vi, p. 94). CRIMINAL LAW. " Confession and Auto biography of Harry Orchard," July McClures (V. exevii, p. 296). CRIMINAL LAW. " The Idaho Murder Cases," illustrated, the Independent for May 16th, (V. lxii, p. 1 1 17). CRIMINAL LAW. "Abducting. kidnap ing, or aiding in the escape of an inmate of

a hospital for the insane," by Norvelle N. Henley, July Virginia Law Register (V. xiii, p. 169.) DOMESTIC RELATIONS. " Adoption of an only Son," by Surendranath Ray, Alla habad Law Journal (V. iv, p. 181). ETHICS. ' A Monograph on Legal Ethics,' by John Charles Harris, Texas Bar Ass'n. 1907. ETHICS. " Law and Lawyers," by Benj. F. Hegler, The Brief (V. vii, p. 88). ETHICS. " Standards of Public Morality," by Arthur Twining Hadley. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1907. The book is composed of the lectures delivered by President Hadley on the John S. Kennedy foundation in New York in November and December of 1906, which are entitled, 1. The Formation of Public Opinion. 2. The Ethics of Trade. 3. The Ethics of Corporate Management. 4 The Workings of Our Political Machinery. 5. The Political Duties of the Citizen. The chapter on The Ethics of Corporate Management is of greatest interest, and the author shows that our industrial corpora tions grew up into power because they met the needs of the past. To remain in power they must meet the needs of the present and arrange their ethics accordingly. If they can do it by their own voluntary develop ment and the sense of trusteeship, that is the simplest and best solution,— if not one of two things will happen, vastly increased legal regulation or state ownership of mono polies. EVIDENCE. " Oral Proof of Contents of Writings," by George I. Woolley, Bench and Bar (V. ix p. 88). FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES. " Scope of Traders' Act " by James Fontaine Minor, July Virginia Law Register (V. xiii, p. 172.) HISTORY (Marshall) " Influence of Chief Justice Marshall in the Supreme Court of the United States," by John A. Shanck, The Brief (V. vii, p. 65). HISTORY. " The Fight for the Minnie Healey," by C. P. Connolly, July McClures (V. exevii, p. 317).