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 The Modern Science of Criminology‘ HE publication of two important series of translations of European treatises in this country has been begun, and when these series are complete the

legal learning of the Continent will for the ﬁrst time be in a fair way to become a permanent and indispensable element of the education of the American lawyer.

Series, is issued by the Committee on Translations of the American Institute

of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the three volumes here noticed are to be followed by others by Saleilles, Ferri. Tarde, burg. Bouger, In bothGarofalo cases the and attempt Aschalienis

One of these sets of books is that known

to set before the American reader the best specimens of contemporary Con

as the Modern Legal Philosophy Series,

tinental

edited by a committee of the Association

treatises. Gratifying as the publication of these translations must be, this feeling of

of American Law Schools, in which

translations of Korkunov and Gareis have already been published, and those of notable works by German, and Italian jurists are about to The other one, to which we here known as the Modern Criminal

French appear. advert, Science

philosophical

or

scientiﬁc

pleasure is accompanied by one of painful

wonder, regarding the mysterious causes which thus far have rendered all this literature accessible only to the few. The most obvious explanation is that the

powers of the American legal scholafl who in acumen is scarcely the inferior Of ‘ Modern Theories of Criminality. By C. Ber naldo De Quiros of Madrid. Translated from the second Spanish edition by Alfonso de Salvio. Ph.D.. Assistant Professor in Romance Languages in Northwestern University. With an American preface by the Author, and an introduction by W. W. Smithers, Esq.. of Philadelphia. Secretary of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Asso ciation. Modern Criminal Science Series. v. 1. Little. Brown & Co.. Boston. Pp. xxvii. 249 (index). (84 net.) Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges. Practitioners and Students. By Hans Gross. J. U. D.. Professor of Criminal Law at the Uni versity of Graz, Austria, formerly Magistrate of the Criminal Court at Czernovitz, Austria, Editor of the Archives of Criminal Anthropology and Criminal istics." Translated from the fourth German edition by Horace M. Kallen, Ph.D.. Assistant and Lee turer in Philosophy in Harvard University. With an American preface by the author. and an intro duction by Joseph Jastrow, Ph.D.. Professor of Psy chology in the University of Wisconsin. Modern Criminal Science Series. v. 2. Little, Brown 8! Co.. Boston. Pp. xx. 492 + 22 (appendices and index).

(:5 m.) Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. By Cesare Lombroso. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology in the University of Turin. Translated by Henry P. Horton, M.A. With an introduction by Maurice Parmelee. Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri. author of “Principles of Criminal Anthropology," etc. Modern Criminal Science Series. No. 3. Little. Brown 8: Co.. Boston. Pp. xlvi. 451+ bibliog raphy and index 27. ($4.50 net.)

his European confrére, have thus far been largely absorbed in the task 0f mastering an intricate body of case law of his own country, quite as reoondite

as the majestic system of Roman law’ and that when he has had the desire to look beyond this national horizon, he

has turned to England ﬁrst of all for guidance, and derived from the native

land of the common law most of his knowledge concerning the profound‘?r problems of jurisprudence and legisla

tion. Why English scholars have so far ignored contemporary Continental writers as unconsciously to belittle the importance of their work would not be easy to explain, but we American-5' inﬂuenced as we are by English discus sion, owe the peculiar provincial tum

given to juristic philosophy in this country chieﬂy to these English in fluences, whereas normally we should

have absorbed not only all the best that England has produced but the ripest 0i