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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Convention of 1864, and the Declaration of St. Petersburg; part II, the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and the Geneva Conference of 1906; part III, the Hague Peace Conference of 1907. So far as could be ascertained from a necessarily brief examination, the texts are accurate, and the book should prove of value to all students of international law. JUDGMENTS. " Revivor of Judgments," by M. J. Gorman. Canadian Law Times and Review (V. xxviii, p. 415). LABOR QUESTION. " Labor Organizations in Legislation," by Jerome C. Knowlton. Michigan Law Review (V. vi, p. 609). Dis cussing the cases of Loewe v. Lawlor, 208 U. S. 274, known as the Hatter's case, and Adair v. United States, 208 U. S. 161, which have been severely criticised by labor leaders. The author agrees with the court's finding that the boycott is an unlawful conspiracy against interstate commerce and in violation of the Anti-Trust Act. and that a statute provid ing criminal punishment for discharging an employee because of his membership in a labor union is unconstitutional. He regards the decision as a pronounced recognition of individualism. "During the past tw.enty-five years there has been a mad rush for organization and the rights of the individual have been trampled upon and then conceded, only on condition that he become a member of some organization of capital or labor, and both of these factors have been equally at fault in this direction. The decisions plainly indicate that the consti tutional guarantees are for the individual as against classes and organizations incorporated or unincorporated, that individualism is to have a reasonable opportunity and is not to be crushed^out through the power of organiza tion in the use of questionable means and measures, or through legislative limitations on freedom of action.1" LEGAL EDUCATION. " Legal Education in the United States," by H. L. Wilgers. Michigan Law Review (V. vi, p. 647). A careful review of the history of legal education in the United States and of its present situation. The author concludes that the time has arrived "which requires, for the best interest of all, a better .preparation for the more complete mastery of the more intricate law applicable

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to the more complex situations arising daily." He believes the state universities in the central West will be justified by their constituencies in making such an advance by requiring a college education or two years in college before enter ing on the study of law. LEGAL PROFESSION. "The Law — A Business or a Profession," by Champ S. Andrews. Yale Law Journal (V. xvii, p. 602). Purporting to be the record of a conversation between an eminent judge, a distinguished lawyer, and the son of the latter, a young law student. The older men frankly tell the young man how much cant and hypocrisy there is in the current talk about the professional dignity of the lawyer. The older men hold up a high ideal for the younger, but warn him that the struggle to maintain it is hard and that the many fail to do so. LITERATURE. " True Stories of Crime," from the District Attorney's office, by Arthur Train. Illustrated. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1908. This is a series of stories of interesting crimi nal cases which have passed under the eye of the author in his professional work. Many of them have previously appeared in periodical form. Mr. Train, of whom the hope has been expressed that he may yet prove our American Fielding, has already made a reputation by his direct and entertaining story-telling, and it need only be said that these stories maintain his previous high standard. The best of the group is the first one, entitled " The Woman in the Case." MARRIAGE. " Marriage within Prohibited Degrees," by George S. Holmestead. Canadian Law Times, and Review (V. xxviii, p. 426). NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (Ownership of Checks). " When is a Bank the Bona Fide Owner of a Check Left for Deposit or Collec tion?" by Albert S. Bolles. University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register (V. Ivi, p. 375). Discussing the prin ciples involved and the conflicting cases as to ownership of a check credited to a depositor with the right to draw immediately against the credit. The author favors the view that " so long as a depositor checks against his actual cash deposit, he is not borrowing and the bank is not the bona fide purchaser of checks credited to him but not collected. When his