Page:The Green Bag (1889–1914), Volume 23.pdf/54

 34

The Green Bag

The full citation of cases in the annotations

BOO KS RECEIVED

is a valuable feature, and ready access to

ECEIPT of the following new books is rules of court in different jurisdictions is afforded by a work which does credit to the highly specialized skill of its authors. ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW A Guide to Criminal Law and Procedure; in tended chieﬂy for the use of bar students and articled clerks. By Charles Thwaites, Solicitor. 8th ed. George Barber, London. Pp. xx, 234+ index 12. (10:. net.)

A CLEAR, precise statement of the English criminal law, by a solicitor who enjoys an excellent reputation as a teacher of law, will be found in this well-printed handbook. Each topic of the criminal law is treated in a short, comprehensive exposition of legal doctrine supported by citations of leading British decisions. Statutory oﬂ'enses unknown to the common law are included in the pur view of the treatise. A substantial portion of the volume, nearly one half, is concerned with procedure. Questions and answers for bar examination review are appended. American readers would be unlikely to ﬁnd this handbook of much use except for purposes of comparative study, in which connection it may be found handier than the bulkier Russell on Crimes. It will also give the practitioner ready access to English authorities for those doctrines which may be upheld in American courts.

NOTES A splendid address on professional ethics is that which was delivered by Hon. Pliny T. Sexton of the Board of Regents of the State of New York, at the Commencement Exercises of the Albany Law School last June. This stimulating address has now been issued in pamphlet form, under the title, “Laws as Contracts, and Legal Ethics." The theory of state sovereignty and of the rights of states to secede from the Union is vigorously defended in a striking paper by Associate Justice Eugene B. Gary of South Carolina, which in its logical vigor and cogency recalls Calhoun. This paper, now issued as a pamphlet, was delivered by Judge Gary in October before the law class of South Carolina University. "Some Practical Suggestions for the Preparation of Written Records with a View to their Perma nence" is the title of a brochure written by Webster A. Melcher of the Pennsylvania bar. examiner of questioned writings and documents. It treats of the means which should be employed to ensure the preservation of important documents, with refer ence to ink, paper. binding, etc.

acknowledged :— Ethical Obligations of the Lawyer. By Gleason L. Archer, LL.B.. Dean of the Suffolk School of Law, Boston. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. (53 net.) History of the Sherman Law of the United States of America. By Albert H. Walker. of the New York bar. Albert H Walker. New York. Pp. 312. ($2.) Land Law and Registration of Title: A Compari son of the Old and New Methods of Transferring Land. By Eustace J. Harvey. Longmans, Green & Co., New York and London. Pp. 278. ($2.60 net.) Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England: A Biographical Sketch. By H. A. L. Fisher. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; Cambridge University Press. Pp. 179. ($1.65 net,‘ 5:. net.) Popular Law-Making: A Study of the History and the Tendencies of English and American Legisla tion. By Frederic J. Stimson, University Professor of Comparative Legislation at the Harvard Law School. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. ($2.50 net.) The Constitutional Law of the United States. By Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Managing-Editor of the American Political Science Review, etc. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York. 2 v. V. 1, pp. lxxxv, 628; v. 2, pp. xxx, 714+ 56 (index). (812 net.) The Doctrine of Non-Suability of the State in the United States. By Karl Singewald. Ph.D., Fellow in Political Science in Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 28, no. 3. Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore. Pp. viii, 117. ($1 cloth. 50 cts. Paper) The Visigothic Code (Forum judr‘crnn). Trans lated from the original Latin, and edited by S. P. Scott, author of "Through Spain" and "History of the Moorish Empire in Europe," member of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association. Boston Book Co., Boston. Pp. lxxiv, 409+ 9 (index). (85.) The Federal Penal Code, in force January 1, 1910; together with other Statutes having Penal Provisions in force December 1, 1008. Annotated by George F. Tucker, joint author of "Gould and Tucker's Notes on the United States Statutes," and Charles W. Blood, of the Boston bar. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. lii, 301+ 168 (appen dix) + 35 (index). ($5 net.) Compendium of the Laws of Mexico; ofﬁcially authorized by the Mexican government, containing the federal Constitution, with all amendments, and a thorough abridgment of all the codes and special laws of importance to foreigners concerned with business in the republic; all accurately translated into English. By Joseph Wheless of the St. Louis bar. F. H. Thomas Law Book Co., St. Louis. 2 v. V. 1, pp. lxxxv, 52l; v. 2, pp. 462+ 64 (index). (810.)