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struction — are gathered and set in trilo

gies or three maxim groups, by which the entire body of the law is articulated.

very well arranged. The booklet also includes a special cypher code admirably designed to facilitate communication regarding details of litigation.

From and to these trilogies, centripetally and centrifugally, the argument pro ceeds; around them, as a centre, the

entire body of the law is brought into review as a periphery." Original and unique are the adjectives that best describe Mr. Hughes’ effort. He has made an exhaustive collection

of legal maxims by means of which he has developed and illustrated his theories. A vast number of cases and text-books are cited; common law, civil law, ancient and modern literature, seem to be at

Samuel 0. Dunn, editorial director of the Railway Age Gazette, has published a booklet containing his views on "Current Railway Problems." The four articles deal with these subjects: “Valuation of Railways, with Especial Reference to the Physiml Valuation in Minne sota";

“Shall Railway Proﬁts be Limited?";

"Railway Rates and Railway Eﬂiciency"; and "The New Long and Short Haul Law." The ﬁrst two articles are reprinted from the Journal of Political Economy. The volume containing the proceedings of the thirty-ﬁrst annual meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association, held at Cedar Point, Ohio, July 6-8, 1910, contains the annual address,

the author's command to demonstrate his point that “what ought to be of the Record must be proved by the Record and by the right of Record," and his more startling proposition that "the restoration of the Civil Law of Rome has come to the Western hemisphere and is now prevailing in American

delivered by J. B. Burroughs, Esq., President of the Association, which dealt with general matters. Some attention was given to Work men's Compensation at the meeting. No lengthy papers are printed. The volume mainly consists of the records of the meeting and of memorials of deceased members.

BOOKS RECEIVED

states." ECEIPT of the following new books is ac knowledged:—

SOME GOOD STORIES Four Hundred Good Stories. Collected by Robert Rudd Whiting. Baker 8: Taylor Co., New York. Pp. 262 (index). ($1.)

HIS book, made up wholly of enter

taining anecdotes, may be relied on tofurnish half an hour's good reading, and we know of one case where the reader

was so pleased that he purchased another copy for a gift to a friend. The humor of the stories is to be classiﬁed as alto gether of a wholesome and refreshing kind. NOTES "Legal Proceedings in England: A Short Guide to Practice and Procedure in the English Courts," is the title of a pamphlet written by J. S. Rubenstein, and issued by Rubenstein, Nash 8: Co., the London solicitors and cor respondents. The matter of the pamphlet is

"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press. By Theodore Schroeder, legal counselor to the Medico~ Legal Society of New York. Privately printed. New York. Pp. 439 (index). Criminal Man, according to the classiﬁcation of Cesare Lombroso. Brieﬂy summarised by his daughter. Gina Lombroso Ferrero. With an intro duction by Cesare Lombroso. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London. Pp. 322 (appendix and index). (82 net.) Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions upon which Private Cor porations enjoy Special Privileges in the Streets of American Cities. V. 2, Transportation Fran chises. Taxation and Control of Public Utilities. By Delos F. Wilcox, Ph.D. Engineering News Publishing Co., New York. Pp. xxi, 885 (index). ($5 net.) Legal Doctrine and Social Progress. By Frank Parsons, Ph.D.. member of the Massachusetts bar, author of "Parsons' Morse on Banks and Banking," and other legal works, lecturer for many years in the Boston University Law School, author of "The Railways, the Trusts and the People," the "Heart of the Railroad Problem." "The Story of New Zealand," "The World's Best Books," etc. B. W Huebsch. New York. Pp. 219. ($1.50 net.)