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BOOKS RECEIVED. Receipt of the following new books, which will be reviewed later, is acknowledged:— Loaded Dice. By Ellery H. Clark. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis. Human Nature in Politics. By Graham Wallas. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Pp. xvi, 296, index. ($1.50 rut.) The Seven Who were Hanged. By Leonid Andreyev. Translated by Herman Bernstein. J.S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., N. Y. ($1.) Proceedings of the American Political Science Association. V. v, 1908. The Waverly Press, Baltimore. Pp. 261. Directory of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. Edited by George A. Katzenberger, secretary. Greenville, O. 8th ed. Pp. 320. ($2.) The Law of Unfair Business Competition. By Harry D. Nims, of the New York bar. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York. Pp. 516+ index 65. ($6.50 net.) The Law of Automobiles. By Xenophon P. Huddy, of the New York bar. 2d ed. Matthew Bender & Co., Albany. Pp. xxvi, 317+ table of cases and index 43. ($4.) The Government of American Cities; a Program of Democracy. By Horace E. Deming. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Pp. ix, 200+ appen dices and indices. 121.

The Methods of Taxation, Compared with the Established Principles of Justice. By David MacGregor Means. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. Pp. xi, 360+ appendices 18. ($2.50 net.) A Treatise on the Law of Real Property. By Alfred G. Reeves, Professor of Law in the New York Law School. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 2v. Pp. cxxiv, 1588+ index 71. ($13 net.) A Treatise on the Law of Trustees in Bankruptcy By Albert S. Woodman of the Maine bar. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. xci, 837+ appendices and index 265. ($6.50 net.) History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America. By Charles Warren, of the Suffolk bar. Lewis Publishing Co., New York. 3v. (1908.) Pp. 543, 514 + appendices and index 46, alumni roll 397. Modern Estoppel and Res Judicata. By Arthur Caspersz. Part I, The Doctrine of Changed Situa tions; Part II, The Conclusiveness of Judgments, Decrees, and Orders. 3d ed. S. K". Lahiri & Co., Calcutta. Pp. xliv, 356+ index 30; xxxi, 347+ index 39. (Rs. 18.) Federal Equity Practice; a Treatise on the Plead ings used and Practice followed in Courts of the United States in the Exercise of their Equity Juris diction. By Thomas Atkins Street, Professor of Equity in the University of Missouri. Edward Thompson Co., Northport, Long Island, N. Y. 3v. Pp. xc, 1663 + appendix ^ 160+ table of cases 80 + index 200. ($19.50 delivered.)

Latest Important Aliens. Right of Action for Death Claims— Construction of Treaty. U. S. An Italian, while a passenger on a train in Pennsylvania, was killed. His wife, a non resident alien and a subject of Italy, brought an action in a Pennsylvania state court to recover damages for his wrongful death. The case was decided in the Supreme Court of the United States April 5, on a writ of error in Maria Giuseppa Raffaela Maiorano v. Balti more & Ohio Railroad Company, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 424, L. ed. adv. sheets, Oct. term, p. 424. In its construction of the treaty made with Italy on November 18, 1871, an article of which secures equality with the natives to the citizens of each of the contracting parties •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.

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with respect to protection and security of personal property, the Court concluded that this stipulation does not require a state to give non-resident alien relatives of an Italian subject a right of action for damages for his death, though such action is afforded to native resident relatives, and though the existence of such an action may indirectly promote his safety. Automobiles. Reasonable Care and Accom modation Rule— Highways. N. Y. That the general rule governing automo biles passing one another on the highway are the same as usage has established for other vehicles, unless the rule is modified by statute, was said by the New York Court of Appeals May 4 in the case of J. Howard Mark v. Wil liam Fritsch (N. Y. L. J. May 15). "The fundamental principle of conduct is that of reasonable care and accommodation meas ured by the immediate circumstances of each case and exercised by each traveler for the