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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT PUBLIC POLICY. "Centralization of Federal Power," by C. A. Hereshoff Bartlett, August Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 385). A protest against the present tendency to increase the powers of our national government and lessen the import ance of the states. PUBLIC UTILITIES. In an article en titled, "The Wisconsin Public Utilities Bill" in the Review of Reviews for August (V. xxxvi, p. 221) John R. Commons, in detail explains the advanced position his state has taken in a vital question of modern legislation. He proves the law to be the result of careful consideration of the many complexities, and not, as is too often the case, merely a mass

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of impossible conditions imposed on public service companies to satisfy hurriedly un reasonable popular clamor. SALES. "Specification of Goods as Affecting Documents of Title," by Richard Brown, August Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 458). Discussion of a recent Scotch case of interest to commercial lawyers. STATISTICS (England). "Civil Judicial Statistics, 1905," August Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 431). Comments on the volume edited by Sir John Macdonell, giving English and Welsh statistics. TORTS. "Local Bodies' Statutory Lia bilities, II.," by Sir Robert Stout, Common wealth Law Review (V. iv, p. 193).