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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT tative. Indeed no book since Wigmore on Evidence evinced such originality and cogent reasoning. CORPORATIONS (see Conflict of Laws). CRIMINAL LAW. " A Treatise on the Law Governing Indictments," by Howard C. Joyce, Matthew Bender & Co., Albany, 1908. This is a well-arranged thousand-page volume covering, with copious citations, the law relating to the rinding, requisites, and suf ficiency of accusations of crime by grand juries. The general rules and principles and those relating to such topics as federal and state constitutional rights of accused persons are concisely stated, often in the language of a leading case. About a fourth of the work is devoted to a very complete set of forms " which have either received express judicial approval or have been used in cases where their validity has not been questioned." They include forms charging violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the National Bank ing Act, the Elkins Act, and those used in a number of important and well-known cases. While the work, almost necessarily, at tempts little that is new in the field of theory, it is a manual of much practical value. The questions here treated, even under the simpler statutory requirements of to-day, are often of first importance, and the law relating to them has not infrequently been difficult to get at with promptness and certainty. Being a treatise as well as a form book the work stands alone in its field. While it will, of course, be of chief importance to prosecuting officers and judges, it will be a great aid to all lawyers undertaking criminal causes. It is somewhat to be regretted that in a work where the text is so spread out the index does not give references to pages instead of to sections. A. A. B. CRIMINAL LAW. "Vergleichende Darstellung des Deutschen und Aus'andischen Strefrechts," V. iii, by Dr. Karl v. Birkmeyer and others, Otto Liebmann, Berlin, 1908. DIVORCE. "Is a Cause of Action for Divorce Affected by Repentance and Promises of Reform on the Part of the Wrong-Doer?" by H. C. Freerks, Central Law Journal (V. Ixvii, p. 335 ). EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY (Federal Act of 1908). " The Federal Employers' Liability

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Act of 1908 — Is It Constitutional?" by Frank W. Hackett, Harvard Law Review (V. xxii, p. 38). This article briefly considers and answers in the negative these two ques tions : "i. Has Congress the power to prescribe a rule of liability in a suit brought by an employee against his employer for an injury received while engaged in interstate commerce? "2. Has the Supreme Court of the United States decided that this power exists in Con gress?" EQUITY (see Injunctions). FACTS. " Moore on Facts." Edward Thompson Co., Northport, L.I, N.Y., 1908. That a book, in this book-glutted age, should, upon appearance, assume a province of the law as its own and leave little to be desired in filling it, is a pleasing literary performance. Such a book is " Moore on Facts." This twovolume work is destined to become a classic as Ram on Facts was a classic and for much the same reason. The profession needs a work on facts — and here it is., To get into the precise field of this treatise at all is a matter of no small difficulty. No heading or series of headings in a legal encyclopaedia or digest covers its scope or any considerable portion of it. Only a man who has read a very large number of cases for another purpose could possibly have gathered the materials herein contained within the limits of any reasonable expenditure of time. Now that it is accomplished a unique juridical and philosophical value has been created. Before speaking of this, with reluctant brevity and conscious lack both of precision and fullness, a line or two may be spared to certain general features of this work which will be apt to attract attention. Perhaps the first is a certain sprightliness and vivacity of tone and touch which would make a much duller subject interesting. Litigation is full of dramatic feeling. The rules of law have often struck hard against human hearts. Mr. Moore is a raconteur, a good story-teller. He sees the striking, the picturesque. He knows and loves literature, — especially as it comes from the masters of the craft. Where jurisprudence fails to furnish the precise illustration needed, literature graciously and