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those ‘secular processes and struggles by which the law has been, is now, and ever will be strug

glin towards justice and emerging into a better con ormity to the actual wants of mankind.’ These are the words of one of the greatest con stitutional lawyers of our time, the late James Bradley Thayer." "Workmen's Compensation." By Theodore Roosevelt.

Outlook, v. 98, p. 49 (May 13).

"I fail to see how any thoughtful man can read what I have above quoted and not see that this decision of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York is a case, not really of inte retation of the law, but of the enactment of in ge-made law in deﬁance of legislative enactment, and in

deﬁance of the inte retation of other legislative enactments by the highest courts of this country. . . Decisions such as this of the Court of Ap peals, involving such far-reaching injustice and wrong (and implying in our Government such contemptible futility from the standpoint of remedying wrong and injustice), if unchecked and uncorrected, will go a long way toward convincing people that, at whatever cost, the entire system must be changed. The so-called conservatives who work for and applaud such decisions, and deprecate criticism of them, are doing all in their power to make it necessary for the Nation as a whole in these matters to go to

a far more radical extreme than the most radical state has as yet even proposed to go."

Miscellaneous Articles of lnlereal to the Legal Profession America. "America Revisited: The Sen sations of an Exile." By William Morton Fullerton. Scribner's, v. 49, p. 658 (June). "The theory of ‘equal rights’ has been tried and has been found wanting. The tradition of that persistent Jeliersonian rinciple is being hopelessly demolished by t 0 lessons which Americans of the last generation have drawn from their political and economic experience. It is becoming a democracy of selected individuals,

who are obliged constantly to justify their selection. It is no longer, as Matthew Arnold called it, the home of do: Gemeine. Its members are becoming united in a sense of joint respon

sibility for the success of their political and social ideal." i Biography. Harmon. "Judson Harmon and the Presidency." By William Bayard Hale. World's Work, v. 22, p. 14446 (June).

An interesting study of Governor Harmon. Morgan.

“Masters of Capital in America;

Wall Street—- How Morgan Built the ‘Money Power.’ " By John Moody and George Kibbe Turner. McClure's, v. 37, p. 185 (June). "General democracy is not in his vision; poli ticians and movements in politics are cheap, claptrap things. He is the arch-representative of property. . . . He works for the development of the country and its industries at large, as well as for more immediate property. The interests of both to him seem identical. This is a curious

place, after all the years of agitation for democ racy, for the actual power over the daily living made from the great co-operative associations of modern industry to centre. Yet it is a perfectly logical place. established by natural economic forces. And it came to Morgan in the straight course of doing his duty, as he saw it, to the top of his strength and ability." "The Life Story of J. Pierpont Morgan: The Spirit of Combination." By Carl Hovey. Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 365 (June).

"In the past twenty years we have seen many kinds of men at work in the ﬁeld of changing conditions, some building up institutions like the Standard Oil or the Woolen Trust as a means of makin and keeping an enormous personal for tune; ot ers, opportunists, dipping in and get ting out whenever they see the vision of a 'ble ‘clean-up’;

but Morgan in his long

ife has not been a simple fortune-maker 0 either class-he has been the maker of in dustries, the consistent agent of solid businss conditions. Yet there are many who distrust what they call the ‘Morganization‘ of industry, with their eyes fastened upon the social ﬂaws inherent in these same wonderful organizations 0 his." Canadian Reciprocity. "Reciprocity be tween Canada and the United States." Quarterly Review, v. 201, no. 427, p. 491 (Apr.). "The East [of Canada] has manufactures

and a complicated urban structure. The West as yet is mainly agricultural. . . . Should the East and West seriousl diverge. it is all over with the Confederation 0 Canada. The present measure,it is argued, makes for such a divergence. . . . The advocates of reciprocity. . . deny that the present arrangement can have any of the harmful political consequences ascribed to it. . . . Which of these two views is correct the future alone can tell."

Capital and Labor. "Business: The Moral Question, I." By George W. Perkins. World's Work, v. 22, p. 14465 (June). “We have now at Washington a Supreme Court to which is referred the ﬁnal settlement of our legal questions. . . . Why not have a similar goal for our business men? Why not have a court for business questions, on which no man could sit who had not had a business training, with an honorable record?" Foreign Trade. “The Commercial Strength of Great Britain." By James Davenport Whelp ley. Century, v. 82, p. 159 (June). "There is no si n of decadence in En land. By contrast with t e rapid development 0 Ger many and of the United States she seems, however, to be progressing but slowly. . . . In brief, this little island is the commercial heart of the world. . . . It is her money which builds the pioneer railroads, opens mines, dams

the waters, and ﬁnances the lesser nations. From all these enterprises the people take their toll and seek new outlets for this increment. That too much money and too many men have been sent abroad attracted by promise of greater