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The Green Bag

The book everywhere indicates careful

federal courts or opinions of the Attor

and intelligent scholarship. As a node ney-General, which elucidate the sec meeum to the busy lawyer, who has a tion, are there collected and succinctly case in which an automobile ﬁgures, it summarized. The reader has placed will prove invaluable to put into his before him, clearly, tersely and intelli hand without delay the law on any gently the penal law of the United given topic. The arrangement of the States, section by section with all deci book is convenient and sensible and the sions of the courts and rulings of the discussion is pointed and helpful. It is Attorney-General, that aid in its under standing. The book must be of real a thoroughly good piece of work. value to our federal judges and prac

TUCKER’S FEDERAL PENAL CODE The Federal Penal Code, in force January 1. 1910; together with other Statutes having Penal Provisions in force December 1, 1908. Annotated by George F. Tucker, joint author of "Gould and Tucker's Notes on the United States Statutes." and Charles W. Blood, of the Boston bar. Little Brown 8! Co., Boston. Pp. lii, 301 + 168 (appen dix + 35 (index). ($5 net.)

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Congress on the Revision of the Laws performed a labor of vast national importance in collecting in the form of a code all existing penal laws of the United States. To this codiﬁcation the authors of this work have added an appendix containing all laws of a general and

permanent character in force December 1, 1968, which have penal provisions not properly separable from the administra tive provisions, which are not contained

in this Criminal Code but are embraced in the General Revision of the Laws of the United States. The result has been to put in easily accessible form all of the

Criminal Federal Law. The wide experience of Mr. Tucker as a reporter of decisions in Massachu setts, as annotator of statutes, and

tising lawyers to enable them to put their hands on the Federal Criminal Law without waste of time and energy. The annotations are sensible and useful, and the arrangement of the material

admirably practical. The only omission which we notice is the failure to include references to the Interstate Railroad Commission Reports. A complete index and table of cases and of statutes add real value to the book in giving ready access to all its contents.

THE LAW OF PAWNBROKING A Treatise on the Law of Pawnbroking, as governed by the principles of the common law, and as modiﬁed hy the statutes of the different states of the United States, and the ordinances of the municipalities regulating pawnbroking; and a Re view of Pawnbroking. By Samuel W. Levine, of the New York bar. D. Halpern Co., 271 Broad way, New York. Pp. 111+ 13 (index). ($3.50.)

HE book is divided into two parts. The ﬁrst gives a review of the

history of pawnbroking and discusses its economic and social aspects. The second part is an exposition of the law of pawnbroking. The work is more than a mere law book. The ﬁrst part

author of law books is a guaranty of

presents in a very interesting manner a

accuracy and practical usefulness of any

sketch of a long and varied history of

book for which he is sponsor.

an ancient occupation that begins with

After setting forth in full the exact wording of each section of the statute, this volume gives the previous legisla

the ﬁrst days of Babylon and Egypt and is already old when Athens and

tion on which it is founded and calls attention to changes of phraseology, if any. All decisions of the state and

Rome enact legislation to regulate its abuses. While every student has learned casually of the attitude of the mediaeval

church, which regarded as sinful usury