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Review of Periodicals of the country, first to brin this great work into being; t en continuous y to superintend its future growth,—building into the structure from year to year, patiently and scientiﬁcally, the material furnished by courts and legisla tures. A dream at present; but every achieve ment must originate in a dream." Ames, James Barr. “James Barr Ames." By J. H. W[igmore]. 4 Illinois Law Review 509 (Feb). “As an historical scholar, Ames represented in America what Maitland represented in England—a search for beginnings, a careful instinct for veriﬁed details, a complete famil iarity with the sources. One of the typical sights at a Harvard Law School examination in the old days was Professor Ames at the desk, whiling away the time with a volume of the black-letter Year Books, turning over the pages with absorbed interest and perusin

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Kansas,

Nebraska,

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Dakota,

Texas, Colorado, and Missouri are dealt with. The author's conclusions are then stated at length. He believes that “This has been a remarkable economic experiment, projected in time of panic, taken up as a national political issue, and carried on under the ﬁre of hostile litigation. If suc cessful, it would serve high social purposes. ., . "It must not be thought, however, that

the introduction of private insurance, as distinguished from that administered by the state, will be rapid. . . . Bankers are the most conservative of men. . . . But, if the limited

observations here set down are valid over a wide area, and the writer believes they are,

it will gradually and beneﬁcially become the custom to insure bank deposits. ' "Oklahoma's State Guaranty Law." By Adelbert Hughes. 70 Central Law Journal 111 (Feb. 11).

the arguments upon essoins, charters an uses, with a (to the student) mysterious ease

and rapidity. With the exception of Justice Holmes he was probably the ﬁrst legal scholar in this country to read the Year Books through from cover to cover. His revelations in tracing the history of trespass, trover, assumpsit, and the other forms of action,

preceded, in time of publication at least, the work of Maitland. . . . "It has been said, and doubtless with truth, that he had never once tried a case in court[?]. Thiswouldindeedbea roof that law is genuinely a science, not mere y an art, and that the highest attainments in it may be reached b strictl scientific study alone_ The life 0 James garr Ames is aalperpetua] memorial of the best in American leg science." “James Barr Ames." By Dean William Draper Lewis. 58 Univ. of Pa. Law Review

police power only, and a co ration being a creature of the law with t e rights of a natural person, and an entity separate and apart from its stockholders, is the individual who is already in the private banking business deprived of his property without due process of law by being denied the right to continue therein, and is the individual who wishes to

embark in the private banking business and who is excluded from the ri ht so to do,

denied the equal protection of t e laws?" Banking and Currency. "Proposals for Strengthening the National Banking System." By 0. M. W. Sprague. Quarterly journal of Economics, v. 24, p. 201 (Feb).

“The burden resting upon the New York banks should, if possible, be lightened and,

289 (Feb). “Mr. Ames was one of the foremost living students of English legal history. It is a matter of sincere regret that the immense labor which he expended on his case books, while it insured the rapid success of a scientiﬁc method of law teaching, prevented him from giving to the world but a fragment of the result of his labors in thisﬁeld. . . . He was ready to be the helpful comrade of all who made the teaching of law their life work. Those who obtained his friendship prized it as a great privilege."

"James Barr Ames." By J. H. B. 8 Mich igan Law Review 314 (Feb.). "His work has been well done and will live, but he will probably be best remembered by all who knew him for what he was, rather than for what he did."

Bank Guaranty Laws.

"Now, the banking business being a right common to every individual, subject to the

"The Insurance of

Bank Deposits in the West, II (Conclusion)."

By Thornton Cooke. Quarterly journal of Economics, v. 24, p. 327 (Feb.). Continued from the November number (see 22 Green Bag 18). Conditions in Okla

above all, their ability to endure severe strain should be increased." Bankruptcy. “The Abuses of Receiver ships." By Judge Jacob Trieber, United States District Court. 19 Yale Law journal

275(Feb.). "The remedy lies primarily with the courts‘ They can refuse to appoint receivers when it is not absolutely necessary for the protection of the parties or when they can be protected without resort to this expensive remedy; they can exercise the same care in the selec tion of receivers that they would exercise in the selection of an executor to carry out the rovisions of their will; they can reserve to t emselves the right to determine when a receiver needs the aid of counsel and appoint them for him with such compensation as would be allowed for similar services when performed for individuals or corporations, and they can see to it that the compensation of receivers and their counsel is no greater than what would be allowed for like services under employment from individuals." Carriers. “The Law as to Left Luggage