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The Mining Law Status of the States, Territories, and Possessions of the United States. The Land Department and the Public Surveys. The Relation Between Mineral Lands and the Public Land Grants. The Relation Between Mineral Lands and Home stead, Timber and Desert Entries. The Relation Between Mineral Lands and the Various Public Land Reservations. The Relation Between Mineral Lands and Town Sites. Definitions of Practical Mining Terms. Definitions of Mining Law Terms. The Discovery of Lode and Placer Claims. Who May and Who May Not Locate Mining Claims. The Location of Lode Claims. The Location of Mill Sites. The Location of Tunnel Sites and of Blind Lodes Cut by Tunnels. The Location of Placers and of Lodes Within Placers. The Annual Labor or Improvements Require ments. The Abandonment, Forfeiture, and Relocation of Lode and Placer Mining Claims. Uncontested Application to Patent Mining Claims. Adverse Proceedings and Protests Against Patent Applications. Patents. Subsurface Rights. Coal Land and Timber and Stone Land Entries and Patents. Oil and Gas Leases. Other Mining Contracts and Leases. Mining Partnerships and Tenancies in Common! Conveyances and Liens. Mining Remedies. Water Rights and Drainage. Appendices. In our opinion the author has not only justified the appearance of this book, but has conferred a boon upon the profession by sup plying a standard up-to-date treatise, written by a text writer who has both the technical knowledge of mining and the legal learning to render his work valuable. In the appendices will be found the various federal statutes and departmental rules and regulations governing mineral lands not only in the mining law states but in Alaska and

the Philippines. The Texas statutes on min ing are also inserted because the author deems them of general interest as constituting, unlike other state statutes, a complete system of laws independent of federal control or inter ference. The citations are full and the volume will meet the needs of the practising lawyer as well as of the student. To the profession in general the book will also have an interest, as the author treats his subject in no narrow mechanical spirit, and the historical portions, describing the origin and development of the different rules of mining law, are at times exceedingly interesting. BOOKS RECEIVED Receipt of the following books, which will be reviewed later, is acknowledged:— Hubbell's Legal Directory for Lawyers and Business Men. 39th year, 1909. Hubbell Publishing Co., New York. Pp. 1428+400. (SS.35 delivered.) The Law of Apartments, Flats and Tenements. By William George. Fallon Law Boole Co., New York. Pp. 213+index and appendices 276. ($4.) The American As He Is. By Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. The Macmillan Co., New York. Pp. x, 97, index. ($1 tut.) The Law of Guaranty Insurance. By Thomas Gold Frost, Ph.D., LL.D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 2d edition. Pp. liv, 770, and index. ($6 tut.) The Banking and Currency Problem in the United States. By victor Morawetz. North American Re view Publishing Co., New York. Pp. 119. (11 tut.) France and the Alliances—The Struggle for the Balance of Power. By Andri Tardieu, Honorary First Secretary in the French diplomatic service. The Macmillan Co., New York. Pp. x, 309, index. ($1.50 tut.) The Law of Real Property (Based on Minor's Insti tutes). By Raleigh Colston Minor. M.A., B.L., Pro fessor of Law in the University of Virginia. Anderson Bros., Univ. of Va. 2 v., pp. 1602, and table of cases and index 233. ($11.50.)

Notes of Cases* BANKRUPTCY. (Neglect to file sched ules.) D. 0.—In Matter of Schulmcm 6> Gold stein, 20 Am. B. R. 707, 164 Fed. Rep. 440, it has been held that on creditors' motion to punish an involuntary bankrupt, as for con tempt, for neglect to file his schedules, he will •Copies of the pamphlet Reporters containing full reports of any of these decisions which are cited in the National Reporter System may be secured from the West Publishing Company, St. Paul. Minnesota, at 25 cents each. In ordering, the title of the desired case should be given as well as the citation of volume and page of the Reporter in which it is printed.

be fined a sufficient sum to compensate the attorneys for moving party; and if the imposi tion of such fine does not put a stop to the delay in filing schedules, imprisonment will be imposed. BANKRUPTCY. (Waiver of exemptions.) U. S. 0. 0. A. Oa.—The Georgia Constitution forbids the waiver by a debtor of the right to exemption of wearing apparel and $300.00 worth of household and kitchen furniture and provisions. In Citizens' Bank v. Hargraves, 164 Fed. Rep. 613, petitioner had offered four