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 Reviews of Books the extent to which this system has influenced legal education in America, Mr. Warren's quotation from a letter written by Professor J. H. Beale, Jr., in 1908, is of interest:— "The following important schools have come to the Harvard Law School for teachers to such an extent that their policy may be said to be largely influenced by the case method:— "University of Maine; Fordham, New York; George Washington, District of Columbia: Cleve land and Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Indiana; Northwestern University, Chicago; University of Illinois; University of Wisconsin; University of Iowa; University of Missouri; University of Ne braska and Creighton University, Nebraska; Wash burn University, Kansas; University of Colorado and University of Denver, Colorado; University of North Dakota; University of Utah; University of Washington and Spokane Law School, Washing ton; University of California and Stanford Uni versity, California." This history evidences an immense amount of gleaning from out-of-the-way sources of biographical and historical information, and the volumes are worthy of their subject. Future writers will find in them rich materials for the history of American law that will some day be written.

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"Suits in Chancery" has also been used, but for the most part the author has carried out his undertaking with only his own resources to reply upon, and the achievement reflects great credit upon his powers, and is, in fact, a monumental one. Lawyers engaged in federal practice will be pleased at the full treatment accorded to many special subjects on which relatively little has hitherto been written, such as, for instance, jurisdictional averments, ancillary proceedings, pleas, references and proceedings before master, evidence, injunctions, re ceivers, ancillary receivers. The treatment of the whole field is eminently complete, exhaustive, and practical. The field had so far developed that it needed exclusive treat ment of this sort at the hands of one who could present an authoritative discussion serving the practical needs of the federal practitioner. Professor Street's work will doubtless remain for a long time the standard one covering a subject of great and growing importance, and it will not be duplicated or superseded for many years to come.

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