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The Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Com

pany will have ready this month "Dill on New Jersey Corporations," enlarged and brought down to date

by

Frank

White,

author

of

"White on Corporations," and Frank C. McKinney, former associate of Judge Dill. The new edition represents years of careful work by the author up to the time of his death in December, 1910.

The West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., have issued a new illustrated law book catalogue, which is so arranged as to be of value as a book of reference. Copies will be furnished without charge on request.

BOOKS RECEIVED ECEIPT of the following new books is ac knowledged:— Ancient, Curious and Famous Wills. By Virgil M. Harris, member of the St. Louis bar. lecturer on Wills in the St. Louis University Institute of Law. trust officer of the Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis and author of "The Trust Company of To-day," etc. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. 454+ 18 (index). (84 net.) The Law of Fraudulent conveyances. By Mel ville Madison Bigelow, Ph.D., Dean of the Boston

University School of Law. author of "The Law of Bills, Notes and Cheques," “Elements of Equity," “The Law of Torts." etc. With editorial notes by Kent Knowlton of the Boston bar. Little. Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. lxix, 731+ 30 (index). (86.50 MI.)

A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims; with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in law books. By Frederic Jesup Stimson, Professor of Comparative Legislation in Harvard University. Revised edition, by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees of the Boston bar. author of "The Law of Arrest in Civil and Criminal Actions." Little. Brown 82 Co., Boston. Pp. 346. ($3 net.) A Practical Treatise on the Law and Procedure involved in the Preparation and Trial of Cases of Ejectment and other Actions at Law respecting Titles to Land. Treating particularly of the plead ing, practice and evidence. and in a general way also of the principles of the substantive law involved in such actions. By Arthur Gray Powell, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. The Harrison Co.. Atlanta. Pp. 583+ 47 (table of cases) + 121 (index). ($7.50.) Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. By Cesare Lombroso, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology in the University of Turin. Translated by Henry P. Horton, M.A. With an introduction by Maurice Parmelee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri, author of "Principles of Criminal Anthropology." etc. Modern Criminal Science Series. No.3. Little. Brown 8: Co., Boston. Pp. xlvi, 451+ bibliog raphy and index 27. ($4.50 net.)

Index to Periodicals Articles on Topics of Legal Science and Relaled Subjects Admiralty. See Extra-territoriality. Armaments. "Armaments and Arbitra tion." By Rear-Admiral A. T. Mahan, U.S.N. North American Review, v. 193, p. 641 (May). "I think, and have always thought, that the possession of force, of power to effect ends, is a responsibility—a talent, to use the Christian

expression ——which cannot by the individual man or state be devolved upon another, exce t when certain that the result cannot violate t e individual or the national conscience. A eneral arbitration arrangement between Great ritain and the United States approaches this condition, because it is as certain as anything human can be that the two states will never again go to war; that their diﬂiculties will always be settled peace abl. If there were no other reason, the interests an consequent sympathies of the British colonies eijrcept perhaps those of Canada, would insure t 1s. . ..

"But in questions of policy, like the Monroe Doctrine, or the fortiﬁcation of the Panama Canal before the Zone became United States

territory, or the position of Great Britain in Egypt, or of Japan in Manchuria,',determination does not concern lawyers as such, but men of affairs; because, there being no law applicable, what is needed is a workable arrangement upon recognized conditions. Such arrangement becomes a law for the period of its duration. "This is precisely the situation in which Germany ﬁnds herself, and has found herself. The questions pressing upon her, though con ditioned by law, have been and are questions of national policy and imminent national interests. The unification of the Empire, the determination of its limits, the securing of con

ditions which should assure her weight in the councils of Europe, the extension of the sphere of German interests in the outside world, have been and are achievements of policy, accom plished against adverse conditions such as the nited States and Great Britain have never known. To the effecting of them national power organized as military force has been and continues essential." “America's Naval Policy." By Harry D. Brandyce.

Forum, v. 45, p. 529 (May).

"If America is to maintain, and if necessary