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domain statutes, interference with contract and the right to seek employment, liquidated damages, limitations of liability, damages in contracts on refusal to perform, damages on breach of manufacturing contracts, the rule in Smith v. Bolles, damages on breach of agree ments to lend money, damages as affected by the conflict of laws, and pleading and practice. - This work has fully kept pace with the growth of the law in the thirteen years which have elapsed since the original edition was published, and forms a most up-to-date treat ment of the subject in a conveniently ar ranged, well printed volume. The author has grouped his principles analytically and logically and has laboriously studied a wide range of cases, including the very latest. Lawyers will find this a useful book. INTERSTATE COMMERCE PROCEDURE Procedure in Interstate Commerce Cases. With illustrative Precedents and Forms. By John B. Daish, A.B., LL.M. W. H. LowdermUk & Co., Washington. Pp. xiv, 268 + appendix of statutes, etc., 128 + Table of Cases and index 96. ($5 net.) PRIMARILY a work serving to guide the practitioner in handling cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission and dealing with the procedure of that court, this treatise is really of broader interest and scope because it places within convenient reach the prin cipal sources and documents of the statute and common law of interstate commerce, by means not only of the statutes and digests to which its space is allotted, but also through the full citations, and the statements of sub stantive law which cannot entirely be avoided in defining the jurisdiction of the Commission and the Courts. The workmanlike form in which the work has been cast cannot be too highly commended. The typographical ar rangement, the full index, and the convenient tabulations of reference material, call for highest praise. This work will admirably meet the need of a hand-book to aid in the preparation and trial of interstate commerce cases. The author points out rules for many classes of cases, and his competence is vouched for by extended study of the branches of legal and economic science relating to interstate commerce, and by his specialization in practice before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The book will be found useful not only to the practitioner, but to the carrier, the shipper, and the student of constitutional and railroad law.

The list of chapter headings is as follows: Part I, Procedure Before Interstate Commerce Commission: Introduction; Jurisdiction of the Commission; Additional Powers and Duties of Commission Under Act to Regulate Commerce; Duties and Powers of Commission Under Acts Other than Acts to Regulate Commerce; Interpretation and Construction of the Act to Regulate Commerce; Pleading and Practice Before the Commission; Evidence Before Commission; Proceedings After Order; Part II, Procedure Before the Courts: Jurisdiction of Courts in Interstate Commerce; Pleading and Practice Before the Federal Courts in Interstate Commerce Cases; Evidence Before the Courts; Appeal and Error. The Appendix contains the Acts to Regu late Commerce, digest of the Act to Regulate Commerce, the Act to Regulate Commerce, the Immunity Act, the Act Defining Right of Immunity, digest of Elkins Law, the Elkins Law, Expediting Act, "Street Railways in the District of Columbia," excerpts from adminis trative rulings and opinions, forms for use before the Commission, forms for use before the courts, rules of practice before the Com mission, methods of ascertaining cost of car riage, correct titles of the leading railroads, bibliography, and table of cases. BEAL ON LEGAL INTERPRETATION Cardinal Rules of Legal Interpretation. Col lected and arranged by Edward Beal, B.A. 2d ed. Boston Book Co., Boston; Canada Law Book Co., Toronto. Pp. lxxx, 620+ appendix and index 54. ($5.50.) THE second edition of this work enlarges an excellent standard text-book, by some revisions and the addition of an intro duction which does much to clear up the subject by outlining its salient features. The work of a former scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a barrister of the Middle Temple, marked by accurate and extensive learning and strong literary merits, this treatise has interest for American lawyers chiefly as a comprehensive statement of time-honored common law rules, the modern application of which in England is graphically portrayed. Legal interpretation is a complicated and difficult subject to treat under a scientific classification. From the view of such a classification Mr. Beal is not successful. He has, however, concisely drawn his rules from a vast number of judicial opinions reproduced in their own identical words. Incidentally he