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 Reviews of Books tion was necessary to embrace the changes made by the Companies Con solidation Act of 1908. The references have been recast, and some parts of the work formerly treated historically have been entirely remodeled. The con cluding chapter, on the subject of re

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the construction of these ships and the conduct of the light in the address delivered by Congress man ]ohn W. Weeks, delivered at the dedication of the statue of Admiral Winslow which now adorns the State House of Massachusetts. Admiral Winslow commanded the Kearsarga. The proceedings at this dedication have recently been printed.

organizations, has had to be rewritten. A WORLD CORPORATION Norld Corporation. coverer of

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Principles

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System of "World Corporation."

News Co., Boston.

Pp. 240.

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($1.)

T SEVERELY taxes the imagination to credit the successful business man

who has proposed this fantastic and preposterous scheme with sincerity, but we wish to be magnanimous. The "world corporation" seems to be nothing more nor less than a socialistic state, con trolling all the labor and production of the world, every citizen being a share

holder.

The fourth edition of Robert L. Dugdale's "The Jukes," with an introduction, especially prepared for this edition, by Franklin H. Gid dings, Professor of Sociology in Columbia University, has been issued by G. P. Put nam's Sons, New York. This little volume, which is a painstaking study of the persistence and the modiﬁcations of heredity through several genera tions, as revealed in statistics of the crimes, pauperism, and diseases of a family of degener ates, whose real identity the author has dis guised under the name Jukes, is a unique chapter in sociological investigation and has proved, and should prove, invaluable to students of criminology and to those interested in eugenics.

BOOKS RECEIVED

The Arizona charter and the

by-laws, even, are set forth. The cor poration law of Arizona must be amaz ingly progressive.

We have received a copy of the able argument of C. A. DeWitt of the Manila bar on "The Power of the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands to Deport or Expel Aliens," issued in a pamphlet of a hundred or more pages. It con tains a vigorous and logical plea for the pro tection of the constitutional rights of aliens against invasion by arbitrary power.

The old established law publishing business of Banks& Co., which was recently sold, is not to

be removed from Albany.

With the purchasing

interests are associated men from other success ful law publishing ﬁrms, and the following oﬂicers have been elected: President, David Banks, In; vice-president, Matthew Bender, _]r.; treasurer, Lemen K. Strouse; secretary, John

T. Bender. Those who may be interested in the famous naval battle between the Kearsarga and the Alabama will ﬁnd some interesting details about

ECElPT of the following new books is ac knowledged :— Report of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association. held at Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1, 1910. V. 35. Lord Baltimore Press, Baltimore. Pp. 1197. (Cloth, $1.25, paper, 31.) David Ricardo: A Centenary Estimate. By Jacob H. Hollander, Ph.D.. Professor of Political Economy in the Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 28, no. 4. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore. Pp. 137 (index). (Cloth, $1.50,

Paper. 8L) A Treatise on the Law of Pawnbroking, as governed by the principles of the common law, and as modiﬁed by the statutes of the different states of the United States. and the ordinances of the municipalities regulating pawnbroking; and a Review of Pawnbroking. By Samuel W. Levine, of the New York bar. S. W. Levine. New York. Pp. 11l+13 (index). The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy, under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898. By William Miller Collier. 8th edition, with amendments of 1903, 1906 and 1910. and with decisions to date. by Frank B. Gilbert of the Albany bar, editor of Street Railway Reports. Annotated; joint author of Com mercial Paper, etc. Matthew Bender 8! Co., Albany. Pp. lxnu', 854+ 244 (General Orders and Forms) + 157 (Rules and Statutes) + 51 (General Index). ($7.50.)