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gress regarding it: After that comes a consideration of the decisions of the courts, arranged by Presidential admin istrations. Up to the time of Mr. Roosevelt the author is able to take up every decision Whether raised by the government or by private parties. In all there were

endars for 1911, instructions for taking

only some forty cases.

depositions and the execution and ac

But after Roose

velt's coming into the Presidency the cases were so numerous that it was not feasible in this short work to take up any but the more important decisions on those involving new points. The book will be of principal interest and value to the great mass of lawyers and laymen who have not made a close study of the statute or the decisions upon it. Those men know the present

importance of the Sherman anti-trust act, but they have a slightly vague im pression as to its terms, its scope and its interpretations. The present work gives us a concise but complete statement of the law and its passage and its meaning. It is so condensed that even the busy man can afford to read it all, and yet

it is not too condensed to cover its whole subject

well.

Moreover,

the

well

rounded view of the whole statute and its meaning which this book gives us, should be very helpful as a basis or foundation from which to study any special features of the enactment, or its application to any special or novel set

of facts. HUBBELL'S LEGAL DIRECTORY Hubbell's Legal Directory for Lawyers and Busi ness Men. Forty-ﬁrst year. 1911. Hubbell Pub lishing Co., New York. Pp. 1479+ 439 ($5.35

delivered.)

HIS standard directory continues gradually to grow in size with the

business growth of each succeeding year. The new volume differs little from pre decessors in general appearance,

but

the text has been thoroughly revised

to date, the synopsis of laws of the various states retaining its practical value for purposes of convenient refer ence. The work abounds in information of use to the practitioner in every part of the country, in the form of court cal

knowledgment of deeds, synopsis of the patent laws and laws concerning the federal jurisdiction and practice, lists

of leading attorneys in over four thou sand cities and towns, of prominent banks and bankers, United States Consuls, etc.

NOTES The Virginia State Bar Association departed from the usual custom last year and held its twenty-second annual meeting in conjunction with the Bar Association of Maryland, at Hot. Springs, Va., July 26, 27 and 28. The report of the former contains among others these papers read before both Associations meeting jointly: “Grotius. and the Movement for International Peace," by R. Walton MooreI president of the Virginia association; “How far the United States Supreme Court may be taken as a model for an lntemational Court of Arbitral justice," by Hon. A. J. Montague. Frederick V. Holman, Esq.. president of the Oregon Bar Association. in his annual address delivered last November. took for his subject, "Some Instances of Unsatisfactory Results under Initiative Amendments of the Oregon Constitu tion." This address. now issued in pamphlet form. is an able and important document. Mr. Holman concludes with the remark: “I have endeavored in this address to show the danger and imprac ticability of the people making radical changes in a state constitution without considering. and in con Lravention of. the history, the principles and the fundamental law of a republican form of govern ment, and in opposition to the traditions and to the genius of our institutions." Charles A. Boston, Esq., of the New York bar. delivered an address last October on the Proposed Code of Professional Ethics of the New York County Lawyers‘ Association, at the request of that body. and the address was printed in December in accord ance with a vote of the Association. The proposed code is very short. designed. as Mr. Boston appro priately says. "to be a guide to those who need in struction, a warning to those who may need rebuke. and the basis for a healthy and uplifting sentiment which will improve the practice at the bar through the general recognition of undisputed principals." Canon 10 was one of the subjects which gave rise to most controversy in the Association. and Mr. Boston suggests that this canon should read as follows: "He should counsel and maintain only