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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT gation of Authority by an Agent." The gen eral rule forbidding such delegation and the cases in which it is allowable are discussed carefully with copious citations, but the minute discussion of the mutual rights and obligations of principal, agent and subagent is reserved for further consideration. AGENCY (Forgery by Agent of Charitable Corporation). " The Rule in the Clarkson Home Cases," by Frederick Dwight, in the December Columbia Law Review (V. vi, p. 556) is a criticism of a decision by the New York Court of Appeals. A charitable institu tion had some registered railroad bonds. The treasurer forged the necessary votes and powers of attorney to secure a transfer of the bonds and absconded with the proceeds. Both charitable institution and the railroad company were absolutely free from inten tional wrong-doing or even negligence, but the court required the railroad to stand the loss. The court regarded the law as ele mentary. Mr. Dwight in an interesting paper argues for a contrary result on both practical and legal grounds. AGENCY. " The Vice Principal Doctrine in Illinois," by George Haven Miller, November Illinois Law Review (V. i, p. 242). BANKRUPTCY. " The Rights of the Trus tee under section 67A of the National Bank ruptcy Act," by Garrard Glenn. Columbia Law Review (V. vi, p. 562). BANKRUPTCY. "The Provincial Insol vency Bill," by Chunilal M. Gaudlie, Bombay Law Reporter (V. viii, p. 337). BILLS AND NOTES. " A Consideration of the Uniform Negotiable Instrument Law," by John D. Milliken, American Lawyer (V. xiv, P- 346)BIOGRAPHY. " Alexander Hamilton," by Emory Speer. Yale Law Journal (V. xvi, p. 94). BIOGRAPHY (Lindsey). *' Ben B. Lindsey: The Just Judge," by Lincoln Steffens, December McClures (V. xxviii, p. 162). A continuation of the account of the methods of the judge of Denver's Juvenile Court noticed in preceding numbers.

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BIOGRAPHY (Jeffreys). "Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes," by Charles Whibley, a brief well written sketch, December Harper's (V. cxiv, p. 143). BIOGRAPHY. " Massachusetts Bench and Bar," by Stephen O. Sherman and Weston F. Hutchins, December New England (V. xxxv, p. 449). A continuation of series of reminis cences and anecdotes of Massachusetts law yers previously noted. CARRIERS. "The Law of Carriers," by Dewitt C. Moore, Matthew Bender & Co., Albany, 1906. Price, $6.30. A glance at the title page of Mr. Moore's work on Carriers will show at once the ambi tious character of the undertaking. The author has endeavored to cover in a single volume of less than a thousand pages " the principles and rules applicable to carriers of goods, passengers, live-stock, common car riers, connecting carriers, and interstate trans portation, and the methods and procedure for their enforcement." Mr. Moore has fallen into the prevailing habit of American law-book writers of making a text which is a compilation of the headnotes of cases, — a kind of digest put in narra tive form. He has not made a particularly effective analysis of the subject; and he has not made any distinctly original contribution to the literature of the law. One cannot turn to his pages for a theory; one can find what has been decided on particular points in par ticular cases. About nine thousand cases are cited in this work. The author's chief attention seems to have been given to the carrier in his capacity of bailee. The duties and obligations arising out of public calling have been but slightly noticed; yet that is a phase of the subject that is of growing importance, and the prin ciples underlying public calling will explain many of the distinctive features of carrier law. A single chapter only is given to interstate transportation; and the cases cited therein do not seem to constitute an exhaustive collec tion. A suggestion is thrown out that the Railroad Rate Act of 1906 may be unconsti tutional; but the great subject of rate regu lation is not discussed at all. The text of the act is printed, followed by an elaborate index of the act