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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT band Persons, Countraband Goods, Blockade, Unneutral Services, and Released Vessels. It would not be possible here to call atten tion to specific cases. To appreciate the value of this part of the work, the reader must ex amine it himself. There are six appendices: I, Speech of Baron Komura on the Manchurian Question; II, The Memorandum of the Seven Professors; III, Diary of the War between Japan and Russia, 1904-1905 (an excellent brief chronological outline of events); IV, The Treaty of Peace; V, Japanese Regulations Governing Captures at Sea; VI, Complete List of the Vessels Captured. Taken all in all, a thorough, well-arranged, able, and timely book. INTERSTATE COMMERCE (Supervision by Taxation). " Federal Taxation of Interstate Commerce," by Simeon E. Baldwin, Harvard Law Review (V. xxii, p. 27). Suggesting, without expressing an opinion as to its ex pediency, that federal supervision of large corporations may be secured by taxation. "A statute of such a character would most naturally take the shape of a tax on the business of shipping goods from one state to another for a market, when conducted by an artificial person of a certain character and attaining large proportions." Such a statute, Judge Baldwin thinks, could be upheld. JUDGMENTS. "Judgment Absolute on Reversal," by G. I. Wooley, Bench and Bar (V. xv, p. 18). JURISPRUDENCE. " Aristotle on Legal Redress," by Paul Vinogradoff, Columbia Law Review (V. viii, p. 548). JURISPRUDENCE. " The Science of Juris prudence," by Hannis Taylor, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908, price $3.50 net. In this volume Dr. Taylor again gives evidence of his wide range of study and his familiarity with the history of institutions. As a disciple of the historical school he devotes the larger part of his work to summaries of the history of Roman and English law, chiefly their public law, for the purpose of arriving at an accurate conception of sovereignty and the sanction of laws. As an international

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lawyer he devotes his final chapters to Law by Analogy or International Law and Inter national Rules to Prevent Conflict of Laws. One chapter is devoted to an analysis of Law Proper. The author calls to our attention the supremacy of English public law in the countries whose private law is Roman, and has a vision of a future common law of the nations in which the Roman element will predominate. The book will be chiefly use ful as a popular comparative history of gov ernmental and legal institutions. LEGAL ETHICS. " The New American Code of Legal Ethics," by Simeon E. Baldwin. Columbia Law Review (V. viii, p. 541). Approving the code adopted by the American Bar Association. "It might be too high praise to say that this code, as finally approved, could not have been made better. But the question for the American lawyer is not whether a more perfect one could be made. It is whether this code, having been framed after long delibera tion and extensive correspondence by a capable committee representing all parts of the United States, and adopted with practical unanimity, after full opportunity for dis cussion, by the American Bar Association, ought not, as a whole, to receive his support. "If this code is accepted by the Bar Asso ciations of every State, as a fair general state ment of the main duties of members of the legal profession, a great purpose will be well accomplished. An authoritative criterion will be supplied, by which every lawyer can be safely guided, when he is in doubt as to the conduct he should pursue in respect to any of the questions which oftenest prove a source of perplexity. The law student will have a mentor, always at hand. The courts will hesitate less in enforcing the discipline of the bar, since professional misconduct will be, more than ever before, a sinning against the light." PLEADING. " The Theory of a Pleading," by Clarke B. Whittier, Columbia Law Review (V. viii, p. 523). "It is an established rule of pleading that a complaint must proceed upon some definite theory and on that theory the plaintiff must succeed or not succeed at all. A complaint