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Index to Periodicals quarrels to its adjudication will be visited with the condemnation of the world, and any nation which, having submitted its case to the court,

shall refuse to abide by its decision, will be out lawed by the rest of the nations. This world condemnation and national outlawry will be found to be more effective than the constable’s mace or the policeman's club. They will be as powerful to secure obedience to the behests of this august tribunal as were excommunication and the interdict, in the middle age, to secure

obedience to the spiritual power of the Church."

Kleptomania. SeeCriminology. Labor Laws. “Tendencies of the Labor Leg islation of 1910." By Irene Osgood Andrews. American Political Science Review, v. 5, p. 224

(May) “It is

robable that the labor legislation of

the next

ecade at least will be concerned mainly

with the prevention of accidents in mines, fac tories and on railroads, and with establishing some just s§stern of compensation for injured workmen.

International Law. See Asylum, Maritime Laws.

International Prize Court.

See Maritime

Law.

Interstate Commerce. “The Liability of the Initial Carrier under the Interstate Commerce Act." By Jacob S. New. 73 Central Law Journal 4 (July 7). "This amendment [the Act of 1906] is of great value to shippers, as in a great many cases where an interstate shi ment was involved, and where the value of t e shipment was small, they were without remedy, because of the ex

pense which would be entailed upon them, together with the loss of time, in bringing suit in a foreign forum. The trend of the decisions has demonstrated that the courts are willing and ready to administer the provisions of this legislation with liberality, and, also, with a desire to do justice between the parties." Juvenile Delinquency. "Feeble-Mindedness and Juvenile Crime." By George A. Auden. 2 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 228

ut no such system will be adequate

which does not include relief for industrial diseases as well as for accidents." Lex de Majestate. "The Women of the Cmsars, IV; Tiberius and Agrippina." By Gug lielmo Ferrero. Century, v. 82, p. 610 (Aug.). "Too credulous of Tacitus, many writers have

severely characterized the facility and the severity with which the Senate condemned those accused under the tea: de majestate: they consider it an indication of ignoble servility toward the Emperor. Yet we know very well that the Roman Senate at that time was not composed merely of adulators and hirelings; it still included many men of intelligence and character. We can explain this seven'ty only by admitting that there were many persons in the Senate who judged that the Emperor could not be left de fenseless against the wild slanders of the great families, since these extravagant and insidious calumnies compromised not only the prestige and the fame of the ruler, but also the tran

quility, the power and the integrity of the empire." Maritime Law. "The Declaration of Lon nightly don." Review, By Sirv.Thomas 90, p. 126 Barclay, (July). M.P. Fort~

(July) “The returns from the state inebriate institu tions have been purposely excluded from con sideration in this paper, but enough has been said to show the enormous total amount of crime which is the outcome of feeble-mindedness. Neither the prison nor the asylum is the right place for these feeble-minded criminals. There is no place for their custodial care in our present scheme of social polity, and we are driven to the strange conclusion that the best chance for the individual and for society at large is, under existing circumstances, the commission of some serious crime, such as murder or arson, which

will remove him for a lengthy period from further opportunities for anti-social action. By the removal from our penal establishments of the

admittedly

feeble-minded

prisoners

(on

whom punishment and prison disci line are recognized as having no deterrent e ect), the opportunities for greater specialization and classiﬁcation of the same prisoners by the Borstal system, and b

the recent r

ulations for the

provision of umanizing in uences, will be greatly increased. It is evident that an indeter minate sentence with statutory power to transfer to some form of institution which shall be sub stituted for the prison, affords the only satis factory solution to the question."

"At the outset of this article I mentioned that I was not sure that we were wise in promoting the establishment of an International Prize Court. The object of instituting such a Court was to avoid the bias which it is supposed weighs in the decision of cases by belligerent courts. But how do we know that the International Court would notbejust as much biased in favor of the neutral interest? . . . “The new Convention prescribes that the Court shall be com sed of ﬁfteen members out of the whole panel Article 14). Of these ﬁfteen members

Great

Britain,

France,

Germany,

Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy, the United States and Ja n each aplpoint one (Article 15). A schedule 0 the other owers is appended to the Convention, under which they take their turn. . . . The American bias is in favor of immunity from capture, and this may be taken to be the bias of all the weaker states, possibly of the whole of the seven subsidiary countries. Of the eight permanent 'udges, besides those of the United States, the Austro-Hun arian judge might be suspected of a similar ias against Great Britain. The same would probably be true of the state to which the captured vessel belonged. Thus, out of the eight permanent judges, almost certainly three would be biased against Great Britain; possibly, with all the