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President Taft said: "We are ap proaching a crisis in this country. We need the bar, and we needed the bar when our government was founded. If we are the handmaids of justice, then it falls upon us to defend our institu tions when they are in danger." He then referred to the danger of making our Constitution "a mere liquid thing," and to the recall of the judiciary. The President also said that to avert the harm of the people being misled, "you members of the profession should speak the truth that is in you and give the reasons for the truth that is in you."

Other speakers at the banquet were Presiding Justice Almet F. Jenks of the Appellate Division of the second depart ment, Ambassador Jean T. Jusserand, and Robert C. Smith, K.C., of Montreal. The officers elected for the coming year are as follows : — President, William Nottingham of Syracuse; Vice-Presidents, William G. Choate, James D. Bell, D. Cady Herrick, Francis A. Smith, Jerome L. Cheney, Michael H. Kiley, Richard E. White, Franklin D. Locke, and John F. Brennan; Secretary, Frederick E. Wadhams, and Treasurer, Albert Hessberg.

Reviews of Books STIMSON'S LAW DICTIONARY A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims; with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in law books. By Frederic Jesup Stimson, Professor of Comparative Legislation in Harvard University. Revised edition, by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees of the Boston bar, author of "The Law of Arrest in Civil and Criminal Actions." Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. 346. ($3 net.)

IN marked contrast with the encyclo pedic law dictionaries of which we have so many, Professor Stimson's short work, correctly described as a glossary of law terms, is marked by a condensation which at first savors of incompleteness. Examination will show, however, that the vocabulary is very full, and probably as complete as one would desire, in spite of the brevity of the definitions. The strength of the original edition of 1881 lay in its skillful explanation and translation of Saxon, Latin, and French terms, giving the book a scholarly stamp. The reviser has added nearly two thousand addi tional words, and he has done his work well. The dictionary will be of the greatest use to law students and law

stenographers, but the lawyer himself will often turn to it with profit to refresh his memory, and for some pur poses it will obviously serve him quite as well as a bulkier work.

HALL'S CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Constitutional Law. By James Parker Hall, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law and Dean of Law School, University of Chicago. LaSalle Extension University, Chicago. Pp. xiv, 376 + 82 (appen dices and index). (S3 net.)

THIS work is designed for the general student and general reader rather than for the law student, and is evidently intended to be used in university exten sion classes. Whatever may have been the intention, the book is manifestly well suited to those beginning the study of the law of the United States Constitu tion, and in need of a clear, rapid, logical survey of fundamental principles, conducted in a manner as little technical as possible. The author has done his work conscientiously, and his plan is commendable, owing to the lucidity