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 Review of Periodicals of the attacks on it have been of a political nature. Corporations (Nature). "The Juristic Per son—II," by George F. Deiser. University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register (vol. lxvii, p. 216). Largely devoted to the exposition and dis missing as inadequate of two theories of the nature of a corporation: (1) The corporation is not, as such, the subject of rights and object of duties, but is a peculiar method of coownership of property; (2) Property exists in two states, the individual and the collective. The corporation is a form of collective prop erty. A third formula is put forward for dis cussion in another instalment. (3) The cor poration is a right and duty-bearing unit which belongs to the class of persons. Criminal Law. "The Punishment of Crime," by Christopher N. Johnston. The Juridical Review (vol. xx, p. 316). Practical suggestions on the subject, with reference to the experience of Scotland. Dartmouth College Case. See Corporations. International Law (History). "The Evo lution of International Law," by John W. Foster. Yale Law Journal (vol. xviii, p. 149). This address, delivered at the Yale Law School commencement in 1908, traces the history of international law from the Con gress of Westphalia, which Mr. Foster regards as marking its real beginning. Legal Education. "Introductory Observa tions on the Study of Law with a View to its Practice and Administration," by the Right Hon. Lord Collins. The Juridical Review (vol. xx, p. 291). An inaugural address to the Scots Law Society of the University of Edinburgh, delivered Nov. 2, 1908. Literary Property (Alleged Case of Plagia rism). "Plagiarism—A Fine Art," by Henry Goudy. The Juridical Review (vol. xx, p. 302). The author is editor of the second edition, published in 1899, of Professor Muirhead's Historical Introduction to the Law of Rome. He accuses Dr. Hannis Taylor, author of the Science of Jurisprudence, recently published, of plagiarism from Muirhead, Ledlie's Trans lation of Sobn's Institutes, Greenidge's Roman Public Life, and Bryce's Studies in History and Jurisprudence, and cites a number of extracts in parallel columns to substantiate his charge.

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Literary Property (Right to Publish Lec tures). "Professor Edward Caird's Experi ence in the Law Courts," by J. Campbell Lorimer. The Juridical Review (vol. xx, p. 346). The death of the late Master of Balliol leads the author to review the House of Lords case, wherein two law peers decided that a pro fessor in a Scottish university has a legal right to prevent the publication of the lec tures delivered to his class in the ordinary course of instruction. One judge dissented. Patent Law. "Right of a Traveler to Use Here Articles Made and Purchased Abroad but Patented Here," by Dwight B. Cheever. Michigan Law Review (vol. vii, p. 226). It is settled that a purchaser of goods of a foreign manufacture cannot bring them to this country and resell them here contrary to the rights of the American patentee. On principle and on statute it seems to the author that these cases should also control the ques tion of use The recent case of Daimber Mfg. Co. v Conklin, decided in the United States Circuit Court for New York in April, 1908, held that a purchaser from the com pany in which the patentee is a stockholder (he being also a stockholder in the American company) may use the article here. This case the author considers wrongly decided, and he expects its reversal on appeal. Remedies (German Law). "Specific Per formance, Injunctions and Damages in the German Law," by Walter Neitzel. Harvard Law Review (vol. xxii, p. 161). A learned exposition of the rules of the modern German law in regard to rights and claims, the enforcement of claims and the execution of judgments, with a view to point ing out the distinctions from our law. Older systems of law, the author says, developed two maxims: (1) Not every right as such is entitled to be enforced by the courts, but the courts give their assistance in cases only where the right may be brought under one of the prescribed forms of procedure. This idea that a right may not be enforced unless it fits in one of the legal forms, is the basis of the old division of actions into assumpsit, replevin, detinue and the like. (2) The en forcement of a right by the court does not mean that the plaintiff is entitled to obtain the object of his right specifically, but as a rule his compensation in money is sufficient to do justice. The conception of the modern German law