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 Review of Periodicals in controlling the trusts. ... A radical and revolutionary weapon against the trusts has been provided." "The Federal Attorney-Generalship: By Whom Should the Interstate Commerce Laws be Administered?" By Edward L. Andrews. 43 American Law Review 685 (Sept. -Oct.). "It is intended to present these propositions: that the office of Attorney-General is not adapted to the function of selecting the busi ness enterprises to be subjected to Govern mental proceedings under the anti-trust laws; that Congress should constitute a non-political and quasi-judicial Board, whose initiative should be made a condition precedent for projecting the interstate commerce laws against specific objects of attack. . . . "In constitutional theory the President is the First Law Officer of the Government, in the sense of the execution of the laws. . . . But laws undertaking to direct the course of commerce have brought us into daily contact with this executive power and all its crudities. The result of this efflux of law-mongering has been to constitute the President into Com mander-in-Chief of the business of the country, as well as of the army and navy. . . . "The Attorney-Generalship has been de natured by the new functions thrown upon it." See Monopolies. Justifiable Homicide. "The Right to Shoot an Escaping Criminal." By N. W. Hoyles, K.C. 45 Canada Law Journal 577 (Oct. 1.) "As this subject has been brought some what prominently before the notice of the public by recent cases, an examination of the law bearing on it may be timely. The rule, as stated by the press comments on these cases, has been said to be 'that a policeman has absolutely no right to shoot at a man who is simply running away. Let it be clearly understood hereafter, then, that an officer who fires at a fleeing man leaves him self open to the danger of being called upon to face a charge of murder.' "In the absence of any official report of these cases it may well be assumed that no such wide proposition of law was laid down therein as is above stated." Juvenile Crime. "The Beast and the Jungle, II." By Judge Ben B. Lindsey. Everybody's, v. 21, p. 579 (Nov.). This notable vital document tells the story of the Children's Court, how Judge Lindsey conceived the idea and what it accomplishes, and expresses his views regarding the funda mental problem of the prevention of crime. "A meeting was arranged at the outset to give an opportunity to hear the boys of their jail experiences. The boys came and "the things they told would raise your hair. . . . It was enough to make a man weep; and indeed tears of compassionate shame came to the eyes of more than one father there as he listened." Law Enforcement. "The United States Through Foreign Spectacles." By John T.

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Morse. Quarterly Review, no. 421, p. 367 (Oct.). "Many American statutes are merely moral manifestos, never intended for practical use. A startling instance is the general tacit understanding that so solemn an enactment as the Fifteenth Amendment is only a political abstraction. Not long since, Mr. Roosevelt angrily proclaimed that some of the ablest lawyers make it a specialty to instruct their clients how to evade the laws; and there is no gainsaying the substantial truth of his asser tion. Yet, with all his ardor to enforce laws which served his purpose, he himself angrily assailed decisions of the courts with injurious violence. Early in the crusade against sundry powerful corporations for breaches of statu tory law, certain of them complained that it was not fair to prosecute them because they had not been notified of the intent to enforce the laws. This may be comic, but it illustrates the American practice." Legal Education. Address of the Presi dent of the Law Society. Delivered at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Sept. 28, 1909. 44 London Law Journal 577 (Oct. 2). Mr. Winterbotham's address at the annual provincial meeting of the Law Society recog nized the fact that legal education is more advanced in the United States than in Eng land. He said, in part:— "The committee of 1846 reported that no legal education of a public nature worthy of the name was then to be had, and it is worthy of note that although we have made some progress since that time, a great deal of that report is by no means ancient history at the present date. The report compares the state of affairs in this respect in England with the position on the European continent and in America, pointing out that we had no scientific teachers of law—'men who, unembarrassed by the small practical interests of the pro fession, are enabled to apply themselves ex clusively to law as a science, and to claim by their writings and decisions the reverence of their profession, not in one country only, but in all where such laws are administered.' . . . "Lord Russell in his admirable address on legal education delivered in Lincoln's Inn Hall in 1895. He mentions that in 1894 there were in the United States seventy-two law schools, attended by 7,600 law students, taught by some 500 professors. The Harvard Law School is probably the best known of these. "It is possible that I am addressing some who do not know the nature of the teaching at these American law schools. If so, may I commend to their perusal Professor Dicey's captivating article on 'The Teaching of Eng lish Law at Harvard,' which appeared in the Contemporary Review of November, 1899, and which has since been reprinted in pamphlet form? No one after reading that article can fail to recognize how far we are behind the United States in this matter. Professor Dicey says : 'The professors of Harvard have through