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Review of Periodicals Navigable Rivera. “Notes on Rivers and Navigation in International Law. By Charles Cheney Hyde. 4 American journal of Inter national Law 145 (Jan). "The practice of maritime states during the past century or more justifies the follow ing conclusions : "First, that any right of navigation is dependent upon the consent of the territorial sovereign. "Secondly, that the law of nations imposes upon such sovereign the duty to yield its con sent to the navi ation of its own waters by the inhabitants ogany other upstream riparian state.

"Thirdly, that where a river and its tribu taries afford the sole means of water com munication between several riparian states and the ocean by reason of a channel of suﬁi cient depth to be of general commercial value, it becomes the duty of any riparian state bordering the lower waters to consent to the free access to countries upstream by all forei n merchant vessels. "ourthly, that in the absence of arrange ment for international regulation, the terri torial sovereign may exercise large discretion in the control of navigation within its own waters." Negro Problem. See Race Discrimination. Penology. "Vasectomy—A Crime Against Nature." By Prof. Alfred W. Herzog, M. D. 27 Medieo-Legal journal 150 (Dec.). An answer to “HereditargvCriminalit and its Certain Cure," by Judge arren W. ester

entails enjoyed when the donor desired to con vey a fee simple. This was sought to be

accomplished b

a conveyance to the donee

expressly for lid; only, and then limiting the remainder in fee to his heirs, thinkin thereby to make his heirs purchasers. But t e courts as early as A. D. 1325, in Abel's case (May nard's Year Books, 18 Edw. II, fo. 577) de

clared that a man could not limit a gift to his own heirs as purchasers, and that a gift to one for life with remainder in fee to his heirs was no more than a more elaborate expressionof the intention more commonly expressed by a gift to one and his heirs; for it could not have been intended and never had been understood by such a gift that the donee and his heirs should take concurrently, but rather should take in succession. Some two hundred and ﬁfty years later this doctrine acquired the name of the Rule in Shelley's case.’ Police Power. The White Slave Traﬂic Speech of Hon. Charles S. Bartlett of Georgia. in House of Re resentatives Jan. 11. Con gressional Recor, v.45, no. 21, p. 657 (Jan. 15).

F‘ Congressman Bartlett, op

sing the bill

designed to enable the federa government to prevent the white slave trafﬁc, discussed the extent of the police wer from a lawyer's standpoint, reviewing eading cases, and said:

"It must follow, from these decisions, that the federal government has no police wer, and cannot exercise any such within the several states." "Criminal Procedure in the Procedure. United States." By Prof. James W. Garner, North

of the Court of General Sessions, New York

Ph. D., of the University of Illinois.

City, in Pearson's Magazine for November. (See 21 Green Bag 627.) “Prisons and Progress." By Lyman Beecher

American Review, v. 191, p. 49 (Jan). This writer cites, together with other ex amples of the law's delays, the litigation grow ing out of the burning of the Iroquois Theatre in Chica o as a ty ical case. The ﬁre, result

Stowe.

Outlook, v. 94, p. 252 (Jan. 29).

“There are still some prisons which are no better than was the average prison of ﬁfty rs ago,. . . but there are a. few which, ' e the Maryland Penitentiary, at least approximate what a prison should be-a hospital for the morally sick." "A Self-Supporting Penal Labor Colony." By Edith Sellers. Nineteenth Century and After, v. 67, p. 108 (Jan).

A descri tion of Witzwil, in Canton of

the

Swiss

erne.

Perpetuities. “The Struggle for a Per petuity." By John R. Rood. 8 Michigan Law Review 181 (Jan). An able historical review of the growth of the series of doctrines which were the fore runners of the modern rule against per etuities, from the time of Bracton and the

ear Books down to the seventeenth century. Here, for example, is a view of the source of

the famous rule in Shelley's case:— "Even before a means was found of escaping

from entails, attempts were made to accom pllsh the same result of indestructibility as

ing in t e loss 0 nearly six hundred lives, occurred on Dec. 30, 1903. Two months

thereafter the owner of the theatre was in dicted. The indictment was ﬁnally quashed. On March 4, 1905, a new indictment was found and was held for seven months and a half. Finally, three years and four months after the commission of the oﬂense charged, the case was brought to trial only to result in the release of the accused on a technicality. Such dela s are not only a wrong to the accused, i he be innocent, but they always work an injury to society and often defeat the ends of justice itself. "A Further Study of the English Judicial Establishment.” By Judge Stephen A. Foster. A paper read before the Chicago Law Club, October 1, 1909. 4 Illinois Law Review 381 (Jan). “Professor Kales makes no reference to the Commercial Court of London, which, to my mind, is a most important innovation in the English judicial system. It is not in reality a separate court at all, but merely a branch