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CURRENT LEGAL LITERATURE This dtpartment is designtd to call attention to the articles in all the leading legal periodicals of the preceding month and to new law books sent us for review

Conducted by WILLIAM C. GRAY, of Fall River, Mass. BANKRUPTCY. " Provincial Insolvency Act," by R. Padmanabhachari. Bombay Law Reporter (V. x, p. 97). BANKRUPTCY. " A Treatise on the Bank ruptcy Law of the United States," by Harold Remington. 2 vols. The Michie Co., Charlottesville, Va. 1908. This latest book upon the subject of the United States Bankruptcy Law is written by Harold Remington, referee in bankruptcy in the Cleveland District of Ohio and lecturer on the law of bankruptcy at Western Reserve University. The work is most complete and covers the law itself and the decisions in a learned and accurate manner. It is especially valuable to attorneys because the book is the result of the numberless questions of law and procedure presented to a referee, and not only are the several subjects and their subdivisions covered from a legal standpoint but the author cites a large number of cases in the federal and state courts upon these various subjects. The book in this particular alone, is of great value, since it provides a ready reference to bank ruptcy cases throughout the United States upon the many different points which are every day arising in the administration of the bankruptcy act. The preparation of the book indicates a large amount of careful, painstaking work, and the copious quotations from the different decisions referred to are of great value to- the practicing lawyer. BIOGRAPHY. "The Life and Career of Sir T. M. Aiyar, K.C.I. E.," by F. Rowlandson. The Citator (V. iii, p. i). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW." " May a State in the Exercise of the Police Power Prohibit the Use of the National Flag for Advertising Purposes? " by George A. Lee. Central Law Journal (V. Ixvii, p. 2). BIOGRAPHY. " Chancellor Kent at Yale," by Hon. Macgrane Cox. Yale Law Journal

(V'. xvii, p. 553). Conclusion of an article begun in the March number. BIOGRAPHY. " Sir Matthew Hale," by Henry Flanders. University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register (V. Ivi, p. 384). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. In the June Illinois Law Revica: (V. iii, p. 65) Henry Schofield discusses " The Claim of a Federal Right to Enforce in One State the Death Statute of Another." This is a criticism of the case of Chambers;•. B. & O. R. Co., decided last year in the Supreme Court of the United States, which held constitutional a statute of Ohio making Ohio citizenship of the deceased the test of the jurisdiction of the Ohio courts to enforce the death statutes of other states. The author believes the decision is wrong and hopes that the federal court, when the occa sion presents itself, will take a broader view of the claim of a federal right to sue in one state to collect money claimed to be due under a death statute of another state. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Divisionof Power). "The Intention and Wisdom of the Division of Legislative Power between Congress and the States," by F. J. Stimson. University oj Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register (V. Ivi, p. 361). ' An interesting analysis of the powers of our dual government. The author says in conclusion: "I believe that the constitutional decisions of the next ten years will prove the most important in the history of our own republic. It is peculiarly the duty of those of our pro fession to point out the dangers that beset the path upon which the people may wish to go. Legislation is now pending in Congress which seems to me to be more radical, more unEnglish than anything that has been enacted in an English -speaking legislature for many centuries. It has been the proud boast of the great statesmen and lawyers of England that we have no administrative law, no law peculiar