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roads" appeared in 1902, and dealt only incidentally with the subject of negli gence. The great bulk of accident liti gation induced the writer to issue a second work two years later on "Street Railroad Accident Law," in the prepara tion of which he was assisted by Dewitt C. Moore, Esq. These two volumes were favorably received, and the need of a new edition being felt, the publishers

the ﬁrst edition of this work a very large

have seen ﬁt to merge the two works in one, avoiding any duplication of mate

It is impossible to take up any volume of reports, either federal or from any state, without ﬁnding a considerable number of the cases reported dealing

rial which might have resulted, and bringing the treatment down to date. The outcome is a comprehensive treatise on the law relating to street railway corporations, their franchises and prop

erty, their regulation by statute and ordinance, and their rights and liabili ties, and of the law of negligence appli

number of citations have been added, and cases cited during the last ﬁfteen years are now made easily available by

the full footnotes and classiﬁcation adopted by the author. While the principles of law involved are becoming well settled, yet the varied application of these principles to new statutes is constantly before the courts.

with the interpretations of some statute. Courts are increasingly anxious to make

a statute carry out the intention of the legislative body that enacted it. They have become more and more impatient

of the quibble and technicality which

cable to such corporations, and pleading

evade or totally destroy the legislative

and practice under it. The new edition seems to have been prepared with accu racy and pains. The topics of negli

mandate. The author of the present volume has emphasized this spirit in expounding the cardinal and funda mental principles underlying the inter pretations of all statutes. This volume will be found a convenient guide, both to the practitioner and to the law student, in easily acquiring an under standing of the difficult points that are

gence are very fully covered.

BLACK ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION Construction and Interpretation of’ the Laws By Henry Campbell Black, M.A. (2d ed.) Horn book Series. West Publishing Company, St. Paul. Pp. 710+ xii. ($3.75.)

HE method and standard set and maintained by the Hornbook Series of legal text-books is too well known to need explanation. The present volume

sustains the high standard of that series. The terse formulation of the rules of law set forth in the manner of a code is useful alike to the busy practitioner and the law student. With the increasing importance of the acts passed by Con gress and the state legislatures the use fulness of an adequate book dealing with the interpretation of statutes is apparent. To be effective such a book, however,

must be thoroughly up-to-date.

Since.

only too apt to arise from the hasty legislation that is annually increasing our statute law in appalling quantity.

The- usefulness of the book has also been much increased by the key num ber system adopted by the West Pub

lishing Company through all its recent publications. HUNGARIAN HISTORY The Development of Hungarian Constitutional

Liberty.

By Count Julius Andréssy.

Translated

from the Hungarian by C. Arthur and llona Glnever. Kegan Paul, Trench. Trtlbner 8: Co., Ltd.. London. Pp. 465.

HE eminent statesman who wrote this book rendered distinguished

services to Hungary in the conﬂict with