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 Review of Periodicals the Realm is to be discovered mainly in their own conduct. They refused to be put on a level with the Temporal Lords. From the earliest times they declined to consider them selves amenable to secular jurisdiction, or to submit themselves for trial as Peers before their Peers. Again, the canons of the Church prevented them from taking part as judges m the trial of a Peer of the Realm when a question of death or demembration arose." History. "History and Citizenship—A Forecast." By A. L. Smith. Cornhill, v. 26, p. 603 (May). "On every line we are passing away from the century of 'acute individualism.' The collectivist attacks it in the economic sphere, the publicist in the sphere of politics, and the jurist in the sphere of law. . . . 'Man versus the State' already begins to sound a grotesque antithesis. And we are only at the beginning of realizing what vast forces lie dormant in this associative principle." This article contains a glowing tribute to the late Professor Maitland. International Arbitration. "International Arbitration." By Joseph B. Moore. 7 Michi gan Law Review 547 (May). "No one who is observant of world condi tions hopes for universal peace at once, nor for entire disarmament at any time, for the seas as well as the lands must be policed and guarded against the lawless, and a reasonably large navy and army will be required for that purpose. It is, however, fairly certain that if a court of international arbitration is estab lished and the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and the Russias would sign treaties of obligatory arbitration the expenses for increasing and maintaining the armies and navies of those powers could at once be cut in two. Then the day of universal peace would not be far away. "Is this too much for which to hope? "Secretary Melendy in the announcement of the Second National Peace Congress soon to meet in Chicago states: 'At the second Hague conference, thirty-five powers, repre senting 1,285,272,000 inhabitants, voted for general, obligatory arbitration; four powers, representing 55,562,000 inhabitants, refrained from voting; while only five powers, repre senting 167,436,000 inhabitants, voted against. Thus has the civilized world, by the vote of the official representatives of nearly ninetenths of its population, declared itself in favor of obligatory arbitration as a substi tute for war. More than eighty treaties of obligatory arbitration have been concluded between the nations in Paris within the last five years, our own country being a party to twenty-four of them.'" See Reprisals. International Law. "The Declaration of London." By Thomas Gibson Bowles. Nine teenth Century, v. 55, p. 744 (May). "So far as the Declaration [of last Febru ary] goes at present it would seem to be

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strictly no more than a suggestion, incom plete in itself, and without binding author ity." For various topics of international law, see Blockade, Comparative Jurisprudence, Con flict of Laws, Domicil, International Arbitra tion, Papacy, Reprisals. For the work ac complished by the bar of the United States and of Belgium, in developing international law, see Practice. Interstate Commerce. "Federal Common Law and Interstate Carriers." By E. Parmalee Prentice. 9 Columbia Law Review 375 (May). "The primary relations of the carrier are to the state of its organization and operation. Federal control relates to but one of its func tions, and to the carrier only in respect to, because of, and to the extent of its exercise of, that function. Concerning these matters, then, Congress may legislate, but the power has never been held to be an exclusive power nor does it displace state law. In this field of jurisdiction state and federal laws work side by side, state law being of controlling authority in all details not superseded by the legislation of Congress. In the case of land carriers, therefore, there is no room for the operation of a federal common law." See Monopolies. Labor Regulation. "The Principles andPractice of Labor Co-partnership." Edin burgh Review, no. 428, p. 308 (Apr.). "The danger of socialism is a great and menacing one. We do not refer to the socialism of the Fabian Society nor of the Social Democratic Federation. We refer to the socialistic legislation passed by Liberal and Conservative Governments under the euphemistic appellation of social reform. . . . Would it not be wiser to let it pass peace fully away and introduce a higher organiza tion of industry?" Legal Education. "A Further Word on the Next Step in the Further Evolution of the Case Book." By Albert Martin Kales. 4 Illi nois Law Review 11 (May). "What I object to in the present case books is that they are made on the patent medicine plan—the same ingredients in the same pro portions for all conditions and all stages of legal order or disorder. . . . "The present mode of teaching general law has been developed by men of extraordinary ability through a generation or more. They have, as it were, created the national law school before the existence of the local school. They have given the country a standard of uniformity while the local law was yet in a formative state. Their school is supported by the strongest feelings of sentiment and loyalty on the part of those who have made it, and whom it has made. Its continued existence as a national law school and as the source of certain standards of uniformity is devoutly to be hoped for. So overwhelm ingly, however, has been its influence, that it has taken possession of the field of legal edu