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 THE PUBLISHERS'

DEPARTMENT

STIMSON

TALBOT AND FORT'S

His POINT OF VIEW

INDEX OF CASES JUDICIALLY NOTICED Second Edition.

Curiously, none of the books, heretofore pub lished on this subject, has given more than passing notice to that phase of the constitution having to do with PERSONAL LIBERTY, while the state constitu tions have never been systematically treated. Upon this neglected field Professor Stimson has now entered. Look at the QUESTIONS that are TO THE FRONT: the REGULATION and CONTROL of CORPORATIONS; organizations of employers and employees with their STRIKES, BOYCOTTS and LOCKOUTS; "GOV ERNMENT BY INJUNCTIONS" and PUNISHMENTS for CONTEMPT. They are all CONSTITUTIONAL QUES TIONS. The VOTER may have his opinion as to whether or not a WRONG is being done, but, when a REMEDY is sought, APPLICATION must be made to CONSTITU TIONAL PRINCIPLES, and proposed remedies, here tofore, have FAILED more often through ignorance of these principles than from any other cause. One of the most valuable features of Professor Stimson's book is the insistence upon the historical development of the constitution. That instrument, on its social side, was but a repetition of principles that reach back a thousand years to Magna Charta. This is but one side of the constitution, but it is the side that touches the individual most vitally; it is the side that controls the solution of the most important questions of today. The division of power between the federal and state governments is one of the most important of the original features, and one that is fixed on such definite principles that the poet's " twilight land" exists only in the uninformed imagination. The fundamental line of division is that the federal powers are almost exclusively political, the state powers domestic and social.

Cloth, $9.50

Every case which has been cited in any judgment reported from 1865 to 1907 inclusive in the Law Reports, Law Journal Reports, Law Times Reports, or Weekly Reporter is printed in heavy type, in alphabetical order; and under each case, in lighter type, in order of date, are given all the later cases in which it has been cited. By abbreviations, easily understood, is shown how the case is cited, whether confirmed, disapproved, distinguished, questioned, overruled, or reserved. As a guide " through the maze of myriad pre cedents," the value of a work of this kind cannot be overestimated.

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY THE COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY DUTY AND LIABILITY OF EMPLOYERS AS WELL TO THE PUBLIC AS TO THOSE EMPLOYED

Fourth Edition. Cloth, $9.50 The authors in this edition have attempted to "explain exhaustively and in due sequence the principles of all the liabilities of an employer for injury to person or property. It has thus been found necessary to discuss the position of a person who employs others in or about operations under taken by him in relation to : — (a) members of the public generally; (b) persons whose business or pleasure brings them upon his premises, or in con tact with his operations; (c) persons not in his service, but who are otherwise engaged in such operations; and (d) persons in his own service." It will thus be seen that the book covers a much Broader ground than the ordinary treatise on a master's liability to his servants.