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 Review of Periodicals organization, though, of course, no new organization of this kind can now be formed." "The Companies (Consolidating) Act, 1908." By Frank Evans. 25 Law Quarterly Review 348 (Oct.). "These little defects do not prevent the Act being described as, on the whole, a well-drawn statute. It has, we believe, been so far found impossible to make a consolidation Act perfect. The Act compares most favorably with its predecessor, the Employers' Liability Insurance Companies Act, 1907. This is an example of the very worst style of legisla tion." See Interstate Commerce, Monopolies. Criminology. "Hereditary Criminality and its Certain Cure." By Judge Warren W. Foster, Court of General Sessions, New York County. Pearson's Magazine, v. 22, p. 565 (Nov.). "Vasectomy is known to the medical pro fession as 'an office operation' painlessly performed in a few minutes, under an anaesthe sia (cocaine), through a skin cut half an inch long, and entailing no wound infection, no confinement to bed. . . . "While scientists have studied this subject, fraught as it is with appalling public im portance, popular ignorance touching it is amazing. It certainly deserves the most careful consideration of all who are interested in the diminution of crime and the uplifting and betterment of the human race." Declaration of London. "La Declaration de Londres de 1909 sur Divers Points de Droit Maritime." By Prof. N. Politis. 36 Journal de Droit International Privi 897. A detailed exposition of the subjects cov ered by the various articles of the Declaration and of the proceedings of the Conference, with little in the way of criticism. "Jamais encore Conference n'avait 6te pr6paree de maniere plus mfithodique. Chaque Pays elabora un memorandum exposant ses vues ou sa pratique sur les differentes ques tions indiquees. . . . Suivant la juste obser vation de M. Louis Renault, ces bases de dis cussion pouvaient fitre considerees comme des photographies de la coutume maritime. Les Gouvernements n'avaient qu'a y faire les retouchesnecessairespouraniver a un accord." The text of the Declaration is printed in full in French in this same number, pp. 12311246. "The Declaration of London." Quarterly Review 421, p. 464 (Oct.). "The unforeseen increase of international intercourse, and the political developments during the two following generations, have brought about that alteration of conditions which has made possible the birth both of the Conventions produced by the Peace Confer ences at the Hague and of the Declaration produced by the Naval Conference of London. An unprejudiced examination of this latter

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must lead to the conviction that, on the whole, the interests of this country are not only not endangered by its stipulations, but are ren dered even more secure." "Enemy Character after the Declaration of London." By L. Oppenheim. 25 Law Quarterly Review 372 (Oct.). "There remain several points unsettled, since neither the Second Hague Peace Con ference of 1907 nor the Naval Conference of London of 1908-9 succeeded in agreeing upon a compromise concerning the old controversy whether nationality exclusively, or also domicile, should determine the neutral or enemy character of individuals and their goods, and further, whether or not neutral vessels acquire enemy character by embarking in time of war, with permission of the enemy, upon such trade with the latter as was closed to them in time of peace (Rule of 1756)." Defamation. "Absolute Immunity in Defa mation : Judicial Proceedings." By VanVechtenVeeder. 9 Columbia LawReview 600 (Nov.). Continued from the June number of the same review (see 21 Green Bag 402). A model treatment of the subject, with copious footnotes treating the decisions bearing upon the points brought out in the text. "It is commonly stated in this country that the court or tribunal must have juris diction of the proceeding. But there is no modern case in which immunity was denied for want of jurisdiction. . . . "It was formerly the rule in England that publications in judicial proceedings were abso lutely privileged only when they were rele vant or pertinent to the proceeding. But this limitation has now been abandoned in England, and immunity attaches, as pointed out above, to every publication in the course of judicial proceedings which has reference or relation thereto, although it may be imma terial or irrelevant to the issues involved. In this country, however, it is almost uni versally held that the publication must be relevant or material to be absolutely pro tected. The only exceptions are that in Maryland the English doctrine has been adopted with respect to witnesses, and in Vermont with respect to jurors, although the courts of Kentucky, Alabama and Texas have expressed opinions favorable to that view. Much judicial eloquence has been expended in support of the American doctrine." Equity. See Mutuality, Pleading. Ethics. See Government. European Politics. "The Terror on Europe's Threshold." By E. Alexander Powell, F. R. G. S. Everybody's, v. 21, p. 692 (Nov.). This writer says that five men run Europe. "Five men— King Edward, Monsieur Isvolsky, William Hohenzollern, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Cardinal Merry del Val—com prise 'Europe'; these five and no more. There used to be two others; but one of them. Von Biilow by name, has passed into that realm