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 Review of Periodicals "The Value of Political Editorials." By Edward Porritt. Atlantic Monthly, v. 105, p. 62 (Jan). “Three events in the political annals of the Anglo-Saxon world, all occurring within the last four years, seem to warrant the inference that the partisan newspa r has sustained an enormous loss of power. ked at from out side a newspaper oﬁioe, and disregardin the long-standing traditions of the power 0 the press, the

eneral election in England in 1906,

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has ever seen before. For that commission or whatever body, whether legal or extra legal, which shall ﬁnally pass upon the equities of prices in our national workshop— will be chosen by the poo le, even as our

Supreme Court is chosen, though indirectly, and will be responsible to the people. In the end the people will rule." Servant Problem. “The Depth and Breadth of the Servant Problem." By I. M. Rubinow and Daniel Durant. McClure's, v. 34, p 576 (Man).

in l 08, and the revision of the Dingley tariﬁ at Washington in 1909, are sufficient y signiﬁ cant to raise the question whether it is worth while for an daily newspaper to attach itself to a politica party." Legal Anecdote. "Reminiscences of an American Painter; II, Florentine Years in Retrospect." By Elihu Vedder. World's Work, v. 19, p. 12559 (Feb.).

The artist says of Walter Savage Lander: “The Savage in his name was very appro priate. They used to tell of his going into court, during some law trouble he was hav ing, with a bag of gold, which be hanged down before the judge, saying:—— "‘I hear that this is the lace where justice is bought and sold, and I ave come to buy some.’ “I believe it cost him a pretty penny, for contempt of court." Hseterlinok. “The Aloofness of Maurice Maeterlinck."

Current Literature, v. 48, p.

215 (Feb.). "Admitted to the Ghentish bar, Maeter linck practised law with so determined and consummate a detachment that even his family, who had destined him for a legal career, were fain to concede the wisdom of letting him live his life in his own fashion." Pure I'ood Law. “What Has Become of Our Pure Food Law?" By Samuel Hopkins Adams. Hampton's, v. 24, p. 234 (Feb.). "Victory indeed rests with the benzoate army. But it is a Pyrrhic victory, for the time, at least. . . . Only foodstuffs of the ‘garbage’ class need to be ‘medicated.’ Medical associations and medical men throughout the country have deﬁnitely rejected the ﬁndings of the Referee Board as interpreted b Secre tary Wilson. Few and poor are t e con querors' spoils." Radical Democracy. "The Old Order Changeth: What About Our Courts?" By William Allen White. American, v. 69, p. 499 (Feb.). "The supreme court of prices which Mr. Andrew Carnegie says is bound to come, ‘disguise it as we may,’ and which our anti trust laws make inevitable, will require a

national eﬂiciency, a national sense of justice, at national self-sacriﬁce that must come from a citizenship of a higher type than the world

“The passage of a law forbidding a servant to work more than eight hours a day. . . would strike the national funny-bone as nothing in the history of crank legislation has yet struck it. And yet—suppose some such law did actually et on the statute book and came to be en orced, what would actually happen? . . . The stru le would be short, sharp and decisive. ithin a few years the most efficient and best sellin would be perfected, cheapened, standardize. trustiﬁed. Another decade and the read justment would be com lete: every home would be supplied with a 0st of contrivances such as even the very rich cannot afford today." Smelting. "The Guggenheims and the Smelter Trust: The Romance of Mining." Fourth Article. By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Hampton's, v. 24, p. 411 (Man). "What the Cu enheims have done in Colorado, Nevada, tah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho,

California,

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Washington

they

would certainly like to do in a far richer province——the wonderful treasure-house of Alaska. And they will do it if the people let them." Sugar Trust. “The Annexation of Cuba by the Sugar Trust." By Judson C. Welliver. Hampton's, v. 24, p. 875 (Man). "Menocal was overwhelmingly defeated. The ‘best people’ of Cuba lost control of their overnment. But the ‘people’ retained it.

he Trust had failed." Works of Art. “The Protection of Objects of Art and Antiquity in Italy." By H. St. John-Mildmay. 35 Law Magazine and Re view 160 (Feb.). "With the law of the 20th of June, 1909,

for the protection of works of art and anti uity, Italy has taken a further and more ecisive step in the direction of that policy of state interference with the rights of private property on grounds of public utility, which, not unknown in the past, is the chief charac teristic of the so-oalled social legislation of to-day in most Continental countries. "The avowed aim of the new law is to place an effectual check on the indiscriminate exportation of the artistic and archazoligical treasures of Italy, viewed as national assets

of ﬁrst importance."