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 Index to Periodicals "The Railroad Commerce." By 4 American (Nov.).

Bill and the COurt'E'Of James VallaceﬁBryan.

Political

Science

Review

537

The treatment is extended, but is marred by what seems an occasional lapse of judgment, and by overemphasis on some of the technical arguments which have been adduced against the constitution of the new court. A ustralia. ‘ ‘The Commonwealth Con stitution and its Development." By Sir Courtenay Ilbert. K. C. B. 9 journal of C‘mparaziw Legislation, pt. (Nov.).

1, no. 23, p. 28

A review of the Second edition of Moore's "Commonwealth of Australia," with an account of constitutional developments that have taken place since the appearance of the ﬁrst edition in 1902.

Canada.

Appeals to Privy Council.

See

p. 25, supra.

Cuba. "Cuba." By Sydney Brooks. Fortnightly Rai'iew. v. 88, p. 796 (Nov.).

Treating of the of that country. Grmt Britain.

recent political history “The Prerogative of the

Crown and the House of Lords."

By Hugh

H. L. Bellot, D.C.L. 36 Law ﬂ/Iagazine and Review 65 (Nov.). The prerogative of the Crown with regard to the creation of peers is treated historically, and the Conservative party is found fault with for denying the power of the Crown to create peers in order to meet a litical crisis. This author would like to see “t e old alliance between the Crown and the people" renewed,

and considers that the peerage 1S seeking to

limit the prerogatives of the Crown. "The Evolution of the Cabinet System in England." By W'. F. Wyndham Brown. 36 Law .llagazine and Review 49 (Nov.).

The author is evidently animated by a des're to ﬁnd something in the history of the Cab‘ ﬂing the and Separation _of the rowlcli-gtofslixhgoexecutive of Parliament, and he thinks there might ‘be advantages in a non-Parliamentary executive, removed from the vicissitudes of kpopular elﬁctions. hHe st, could owever, ow ‘sue gatziscalniqzinjvlgggn be accomplished.

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A somewhat bitter partisan denunciation of "the stilted’ constitutionalism of the political judges who sat in the Osborne case" (22 Green

The writer thinks it a. grave question whether it was expedient to establish a new court at considerable expense, merely to accelerate litigation and to secure uniformity of decision, advantages attainable by other means. He does not approve of the policy underlying the creation of the new court, the formed, workheof thinks, which could by the be existing effectually courts. per

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udg-ment and Trade Unions." The 051302;] MacDonald.

p_ 535 (Nov.).

Contemporary

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ag 135).

The author is in favor

of payment of members of Parliament by the government. Latin America. "Causes of Lack of Political Cohesion in South America." By Hiram Bingham. 4 American Political Science Review, 508 (Nov.). _ The explanation is found in the inherited characteristics of a pie accustomed to live under decentralized institutions, used to the continuous hazards and hostilities of the conquest of an unexplored land. Philippines. “The Extraordinary Session of the Philippine Legislature and the Work of the Philippine Assembly." By James Alexander Robertson. 4 American Political Science Review 516 (Nov.). The writer considers this session, convened to meet legitimate bud et needs, to afford an encouraging exampe of the growing political capacity of the Filipinos. South Africa. "The Union of South Africa." By Stephen Leacock. 4 American Political Science Review 498 (Nov.). A brief but illuminating paper, reviewin leading features of the new constitutiona entity m their broader aspects. See Federal and State Powers, Local Government,

History.

Status, etc.

“A Diary of the Reconstruction

Period; XI, The Results of Impeachment." By Gideon T. Welles. Atlantic, v. 106, p. 818 (Dec.). “The managers of the impeachment, on

the part of the House, have summoned witnesses. . . . This wholly illegal and unauthorized inquisition by this resuming and usurpin House shows the spirit which prevails, an how personal rights are dis regarded. . . . Fora conscientious discharge of their oﬁicial duty, and a regard for their oaths, the ablest Senators of long experience are assailed with bitterness, as apostates and renegades. . . ." See Government (Great Britain). Immigration. “Some European Condition. Affecting Immigration.” By Arthur Clinton

Boggess.

Popular Science Monthly, v. 77,

p. 570 (Dec.). “Since 1889 no Jew in Russia can be ad mitted to the bar except by a. special permit of the minister of justice in each case. . . . Private practice of law or medicine is almost the only rofessional work open to Jews, and as a result these occupations are so crowded that a living income can scarcely be made.” International Arbitration. "International Courts." By Justice Henry BillingS Brown.

retired.

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