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conditions of professional practice; but there are other observations which seem rather too embittered and not thoroughly candid. This attitude prevents the author from being a wholly trustworthy mentor on questions of professional ethics. The book, however, is enlivened by real wit of a sarcastic order, and sarcasm, when it is as keen as in this case, is one of the most potent and per suasive forms of criticism.

can Bankers' Association, on the uniform Ware house Receipts Act. Working both with the warehousemen and the others, he showed that a law which would secure perfect protection for the banks in dealing with warehouse securities would also increase the warehouse business enormously. Throughout the conference on the form of the law, Mr. Hull was perhaps the most ardent supporter of Professor Williston, who had drafted it.

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