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The Green Bag

Admirers of the late General Lew Wallace. whose number is legion, will take great interest in the tributes to the memory of this noble man delivered at the dedication of the monument in Statuary Hall, in the national Capitol, last January. The pro ceedings at the unveiling, and in the House and Senate. have been attractively printed under the authority of Congress, and include the addresses of William Allen Wood, Governor Marshall. Senator Beveridge, Rustem Bey. and W. H. Andrews. and a poem by James Whitcomb Riley, not to speak of several eulogies pronounced in the Senate and House.

BOOKS RECEIVED ECEIPT of the following books is ac knowledged:— Four Hundred Good Stories Collected by Robert Rudd Vhiting. Baker& Taylor Co.I New York. Pp. 262 (index). (81.)

Legal Development in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1686. By Charles J. Hilkey, Ph D.. Sometime University Fellow in Constitutional Law. Colum bia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, v. 37, no. 2. Pp. 145 + 3 (bibliog raphy). ($1.25.) The Public Domain and Democracy; a study of social, economic and political problems in the United States in relation to Western development. By Robert Tudor Hill, Ph.D., Sometime University Fellow in Sociology. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. v. 38. no. 1.

Pp. 240+ 9 (bibliography)+ 3 (index). (32.) Organismic Theories of the State; Nineteenth Century Interpretations of the State as Organism or as Person. By Francis W. Coker. Ph.D., In structor in Politics in Princeton University. Some

time Fellow in Political Philosophy in Columbia University. Columbia University Studies in His tory, Economics and Public Law. v. 38. no. 2. Pp. 204 + 5 (bibliography). ($1.50.)

Index to Periodicals ﬂrlicles on Topics of Legal Science and Relaled Subject: "American Oorpua Jurls." "The American Corpus jun's Project: Its Relation to a Foundation for the Advancement of Juris prudence and to the Future of American Law." By Joseph I. Kelly, of the Illinois and Louisiana bars. 5 Illinois Law Review 129 (Oct.). This is an attempt, perhaps the ﬁrst serious attempt that has yet been made, to review the “Corpus Juris" project im partially and argumentatively and to expose its supposed weaknesses in a s irit of candid investigation. This seems to ave been the spirit with which the author set about his task, but it is to be feared that as he pro gressed the zeal of the advocate asserted a degree of control over his better judgment, for he has made rather too free use of the weapon of sarcasm, and has seen ﬁt to debate some of his propositions with what looks like an excess of partisan energy. Careful scrutiny of Mr. Kelly's erudite paper—we say erudite because he shows much familiarity with legal history and be cause he has collected his ammunition from far and wide-leads to the conclusion that he has failed to make out a good case against an expository codiﬁcation of American law. His argument that no parallel exists between

the proposed undertaking and the labors

of Justinian is irrelevant, and it is not easy to see the bearing of the historical evidence on which he lays such stress on the problem in hand. The strength of the article resides not in its argument against such a work as that proposed, but solely in its criticism of the personal side and administrative de tails of the roject. In these matters he gives his rea ers something to ponder over. It will probably be impossible to determine exactl what weight should be imputed to Mr. elly's objections, on these articular points, before additional light as been thrown on the administrative side of the project by its sponsors. The most serious of the objections would seem to be the one that the executive board of three would be able to dominate the editorial board of seven,

committing it to a system of classiﬁcation which may be undesirable and warping its disinterested aloofness from commercial con siderations. Inasmuch as Mr. Alexander's Memorandum conveyed the impression that the executive board would not interfere in editorial matters, this objection can probably be met. Comparative Jurisprudence. “A Decade of Juridical Fusion in the Philippines." By Judge Charles Sumner Lobingier. 17 Case and Comment 215 (Oct.). A brief summary, reprinted from the annual bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association. “Americanizing an Old System of Law."