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features are constructed and arranged upon the most approved plan. The Uniform Sales Act and the English Sale of Goods Act are both printed in full in the appendix. The typography is excellent. THE NEW YORK ELECTION LAW Manual for Election Oﬁicers and Voters in the State of New York. By F. G. Jewett. Former Clerk to the Secretary of State. 17th ed. Matthew Bender & Company. Albany. Pp. xxii. 561 + index 83. (34.)

A COMPLETE up-to-date work on New York election laws as they now exist under the new consolidated laws of 1909 is available in the seventeenth edition of Jewett's Manual, which has long been the standard. The work has been entirely rewritten, re vised and enlarged by Messrs. Melvin Bender and Harold J. Hinman of the Albany bar, and the forms have been revised and in creased in number. The value of the work is greater than ever before. It cites and digests the decisions construing the election law of New York state and also gives the federal law and all laws or codes that affect elections in New York.

Mr. R. B. Wise's "The Commonwealth of Aus tralia" (Little, Brown 8: Co., 83) is to some exten modeled after Mr. Bryce's “The American Comt monwealth." He has written with great fulness and pains about the government and political conditions of that interesting sister common wealth. The three ﬁnely printed volumes of “The Legis lation of the Empire "(reviewed in December Green Bag p. 638). give a most valuable outline of the legislation of all the British Dominions during the past ten years. The Cromarty Law Book Company, 1112 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. are the sole agents for the work in the United States. The Proceedings of the Illinois State Bar Asso ciation. at its thirty-second annual meeting. contains a number of papers of note and interest. The paper of John S. Stevens. on "The Ethics of the Bar," provoked much interesting discussion, and the paper of Alonzo Hoff. on "The Public Control of the Issuance of Corporate Stocks and Bonds." also excited an extended debate. The volume con tains several other important papers. “ The Sher man Anti-Trust Law and Proposed Amendments

Thereto." by Hon. Charles E. Littleﬁeld;

"The

Ethics of the Bench," by Jesse Holdom; and "The Enforcement of Law." by Roscoe Pound.

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HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK COURTS The Courts of the State of New York; their His tory. Development and Jurisdiction. By Henry W. Scott. Wilson Publishing Co., New York.

[1908.] Pp. 500. ($5.) SHORT history of the courts of the state of New York is given by Judge Henry W. Scott of the New York bar. The book is particularly readable for the reason that it gives such a clearly drawn picture of the institutions of Colonial times which de termined the future development of practice not only in the Empire State, but in those other states whose judiciary evolution has been inﬂuenced or actually created by the New York courts. Legal traditions of New York City and graphic pictures of old Dutch conditions make the book highly interesting to all who are fond of the Colonial traditions of the bench. NOTES Prof. A. V. Dicey. who once believed in woman suffrage. has lately written a little book. entitled "Letters to a Friend on Votes for Women" (London: Murray). which contains a powerful argument against woman suffrage. In a clear. logical style. fortified with wide legal and political learning. he analyzes the nature of the elective franchise. and reviews the arguments for and against female suﬁrage at length.

Day in Court; or, The Subtle Arts of Great Advo cares. By Francis L. Wellman. Macmillan Com pany. New York. Pp. 257. (82 not.) Crime and Criminals. By the Prison Reform League. Prison Reform League Publishing Com pany. Los Angeles. Pp. x. 283+ appendix 28 and index 8. Law Office and Court Procedure. By Gleason L. Archer. LL.B., Dean of the Suffolk School of Law. Little. Brown 8: Com any. Boston. Pp. xxxv 291 + appendix 20 an index 16. (83 net.) An Introduction to the History of the Develop ment of Law. By Hon. M. F. Morris. Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. john Byrne& 00.. Washington. Pp. 315. ($2.) Ship rs and Carriers of Interstate Fre' ht. By Ed ar atkins, LL.B.. of the Atlanta (gar) Bar. T.. Flood and Company. Chica. Table of cases. etc.. pp 74 + text 488 + appen ices 27 + index 28. (86 net ) The Statute and Case Law of the State of New Jersey Relating to Business Companies. under an Act Concerning Corporations (Revision of 1896) and the Various Acts Amendatory thereof and Sup lemental thereto. with Annotations and Forms. By arnes B. Dill, Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey. Pp. l, 216 + index 36. The Civil Code of the German Em ire. as Enacted on August 18. 1896. with the Intro uctory Statute Enacted on the Same Date. Translated by Walter Loewy. B. L. (Univ. of Cal.). LLB. (Univ. of Pa .) j. U. D. (Heidelberg). Translated and published under the auspices of and annotated by a special committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Law School of the University of Pennsyl Vania. Boston Book 00.. Boston: Sweet and Max well. Ltd.. London. Pp. lxxi. 568 + appendix 54 and index 67. (85.)