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 The Conveyancer's Valentine ing trade as it is conducted by those who are too often tempted to sacrifice literary to commercial considerations. . HUBBELL'S LEGAL DIRECTORY Hubbell's Legal Directory for Lawyers and Busi ness Men. Forty-second year, 1912. Hubbell Pub lishing Co., New York. Pp. 1465 + 446. ($5.35 delivered.)

'T^HE new volume of this standard •*• directory has been thoroughly re vised and brought up to date, and a synopsis of the laws of Porti Rico has been added. All matter is presented in an accurate and accessible form and should prove of inestimable value to the legal profession. The general high stan dard of preceding volumes has been retained. Information covering a wide range is given of interest to lawyers everywhere, including the names of one or more of the leading and most reliable attorneys in over four thousand cities and towns in the United States and Canada; also a synopsis of the laws of the states, the provinces of Canada and Mexico.

85 NOTES.

The report of the sixth annual meeting of the Mississippi State Bar Association, held at Hattiesburg, May 2-4, 1911, contains much discussion of the reform of procedure and prac tice. Among the notable papers were those of Hon. W. H. Powell, in which he discussed note worthy changes in statute law, and S. E. Travis, Esq., on "Uniform Legislation by the States." Resolutions were passed endorsing the acts prepared under the direction of the Commis sioners on Uniform State Laws. The next annual meeting of the Association will be held at Greenville on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of May, 1912.

The proceedings of the Illinois State Bar Association, at the semi-annual meeting of Feb. 16, 1911, and the thirty-fifth annual meet ing of June 23 and 24, 1911, contains three papers read at the semi-annual meeting dealing with Illinois legal history. The proceedings of the annual meeting contain papers by Presi dent William R. Curran, Hon. Charles J. Bona parte (whose subject was "Judges as Law Makers") Hon. George W. Wall ("The Judicial Settlement of International Disputes"), Hon. Clarence True Wilson ("Oregon's Experiments in Self Government"), and Mary M. Bartelme ("A Woman's Place at the Bar").

The Conveyancer's Valentine BY M. L. TYLER DEAR spinster, you alone can give, grant, bargain, or convey The property I'd fain acquire! (It's neither clod nor clayNor strictly incorporeal—it's personal, in a way— And yet it's real—Oh pshaw) I pray If you can give an unencumbered title, clear and free, Your heart, with rights appurtenant, for life, convey to me!