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applicable to such courts which transcends or is contrary to the powers conferred by the treaty is void, — an interesting and rather daring opinion to be held by an English judge. On the question of marriage he takes the view that the doctrine of the Mor mon case (Hyde v. Hyde), which is that an English court will not recognize or enforce a marriage created by the laws of a country which permits polygamy, applies only so far as to prevent the application in the case of such a marriage of some special provision of the English marriage law. He concludes, and we believe rightly, that on all questions out side the scope of the marriage law, for instance on questions of inheritance, of legitimacy, etc., such a marriage if valid by law of the domicile of the parties and of the place of celebration would be given full effect in Eng land. The book may be commended as a distinct contribution to the literature of this branch of the Conflict of Laws. CORPORATIONS. "The Corporation Manual," by John Parker. Fifteenth annual edition. Corporation Manual Company, New York, 1908. (Price $6.50 net.) This work, which was formerly called the American Corporation Legal Manual, ap pears under a new title and with a new and uniform classification of topics conforming to the accepted digest classification. It con sists of summaries of the corporation laws of all the states and of Mexico and Canada, with references to statutes and decisions. It concludes with a valuable collection of charter forms. CONVEYANCING (See Real Property). ' CORPORATIONS. "The Status of Pro vincial Companies," by J. D. Spence, Cana dian Laiv Times and Review (V. xxviii, p. DICTIONARIES. Mozley and Whiteley's Law Dictionary, 3d edition by Leonard H. West and F. G. Neave, Butterworth & Co., London, 1908, 369 pages. A- compact vol ume of definitions with few citations. DOMESTIC RELATIONS. " Family Safe guards of a Semi-barbarous Code," by Joseph W. Rice, Laiv Notes (V. xii, p. 294). DOMESTIC RELATIONS. " Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister," by (I) A. McLeod,

(II) J. D. Falconbridge, Canadian Law Times and Review (V. xxviii, p. 253). EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY. In the Maine Law Review for April (V. i, p. 4), Dean W. E. Walz begins a series of articles on " The Liability of Employers." The old common law developed in a time of enthusiastic indi vidualism, and this is particularly conspicu ous in the fellow servant rule and the doc trine of assumption of risk. As society has tended toward the more collective organiza tion the courts in the absence of legislation have continued to apply the common law rules, but, though fair enough when first enunciated, they have had the effect of throwing on the employee the whole burden of all the accidents due to the fearful and in evitable yet ordinary risks of modern busi ness. The era of individualism had been ushered in with the applause of the multitude, but equality before the law was to many a great disappointment. The author believes that if the courts would accept as a principle in deciding these cases that " there is respon sibility only where there is freedom of action," just results would be attained with out further legislation. In Teutonic coun tries the sane conservatives slightly out weigh in the law the sane progressives, but in the legislatures the balance is just slightly reversed. Hence, we turn to the legislature for our remedy. GOVERNMENT. " The States and Federal Government," by Woodrow Wilson, May North American Review (V. 187, p. 684). HISTORY. "The Fall of Hummel," by Arthur Train, June Cosmopolitan (V. xlv, p. 28). HISTORY. "A City Without Records," by Richard C. Harrison, American Lawyer (V. xvi, p. 155). HISTORY (England). "The House of Lords. Its History and Constitution, I," by Charles R. A. Howden, The Juridical Rirciew (V. xx, p. 16). HISTORY (English). "The Legal Pro fession in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, II," by W. S. Holdsworth, Law Quarterly Review (V. xxiv, p. 172). Prin cipally devoted to the Inns of Court.