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which throws much light on the general types of this new form of municipal government and analyzes the merits

of the system. We quote the fol lowing conclusions reached by the

and other industrial tests and practices must be adopted, as well as the form of organization, if the efficiency of the municipal corporation is to be brought up to the standard maintained in our

present-day industrial enterprises."

author:

“That the commission form of city government is a panacea for all muni cipal ills, is a claim that no one familiar with the problems of municipal ad ministration will make. That it is an

BlGELOW ON FRAUDULENT CON VEYANCES

improvement on the ordinary system

Bigelow on Fraudulent Conveyances. Revised edition, by Kent Knowlton of the Boston bar. Little, Brown 8: Co.. Boston. Pp. 762+lxix (index and table of cases). ($6.50 1m.)

of city administration as it has been

HE editor of the present work has

organized down to the present time, would seem to be borne out by the ex

perience of those cities which have operated under it for any considerable length of time.

Our present system

promises a simpliﬁcation of the ma chinery of government and a deﬁnite ﬁxing of responsibility for ofﬁcial action should be worthy of the careful study and consideration of all students of municipal administrative law. That the commission form of organization

is more in harmony with the industrial and business methods of today, and

more in harmony with the most im portant functions which the city is now called upon to perform, can scarcely be questioned; but that a wider ap plication of the plan will reveal defects in the system, also cannot be doubted. "It is too much to expect that the commission form as it has been perfected up to the present time will be the ﬁnal form of municipal organization in this country. Other safeguards will probably have to be erected around it. Our electoral system has not yet been per

divided Dean Bigelow's work on fraud into two parts, of which the pres ent volume on fraudulent conveyances

forms an independent textbook.

The

subjects treated not only cover the

original statute of Elizabeth on fraudu lent conveyances at common law, but also the more recent statutes, such as the

American and English Bankruptcy Laws, State Insolvency Statutes, Sale of Goods in Bulk laws and laws relating to condi tional sales. In view of the provisions of our Bankruptcy Law, much of the original subject-matter of the treatises is superseded for practical purposes. The principles involved and the dis cussion of them are, therefore, of rather

academic interest and of more value to the scholar or law student than to the practical lawyer. Nevertheless, such a work has a place in legal literature, and

is of far greater value to the profession at large than the mere compilation of decisions of which so many modern text

books consist. The spirit of the ripe scholarship of Professor Bigelow, which pervades this

commission plan, the election system

book, gives it a real and permanent value. His elaborate discussion of the theory of law is a constant source of

is of the utmost importance.

illumination.

fected in this country; and under the Under the

The editor has done well

commission plan the matter of publicity is also of unusual importance. Cost

to preserve this in so large a degree in

accounting systems must be installed

editor is again illustrated in directing

the present edition. The wisdom of the