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 Reviews of Books tive, impregnably built up around the existing law, rather than around the author's opinion of what the law ought to be. America may have produced jurists of keener insight into the abstract principles of the law than Judge Dillon, but it has not produced any one his superior in the indefatigable zeal which performs the irksome labor essential to a sound and applicable interpretation

of the law that is. It is a truism that no man can produce above his own level, and a corollary of this is that no one but a great jurist can

write a great treatise on the law. Judge Dillon modestly attributes such merits as his work may possess largely to the fact that it was written by a judge and practitioner, but that is only half the

story. N0 one but a jurist of the highest attainments could treat the disputed and more shadowy problems of the law with such admirable judicial moderation and such sane self-restraint. The very caution of his utterances lends them an added authority, for if he ventures to criticise or to correct a debateable doctrine, such as that, for example, that

land may be taken by eminent domain only for a necessary public use, the

contrary view is suggested only with prudent circumspection. Conservative yet permeated with good sense, his

elucidation partakes of the majestic impartiality of the law itself, reﬂecting in the mirror of his erudition its inherent reasonableness and plastic continuity. The new chapters added deal with Constitutional Prohibition of Special Legislation, Constitutional Limitations and Restrictions on Power to Incur Debt, Amotion or Removal of Oﬂicers,

Ordinances Exercising the Police Power, Warrants on Municipal Treasury, Muni cipal Bonds, Street Franchises, Public Utilities, and Special Assessments. These new chapters exhibit but a small fraction

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of the enlargement of the work. The most important topics brought down to date are possibly the regulation of public utilities and their charges, constitutional limitations on municipal indebtedness,

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HE so-called organismic theory of

the state is adversely criticized by so many distinguished writers that one is almost tempted to say that the cur rent orthodox theory of political science is that the state is an aggregate, not an organism, and that its juristic person

ality is a legal ﬁction and not a reality. The adverse critics include sociologists