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DEISER AND JOHNSON'S CLAIMS Claims: Fixing Their Values. By George F. Deiser, A.B., 1. 1. .It., of the Philadelphia bar. and Frederick W. Johnson, formerly Assistant General Claim Agent. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York and London. Pp. 140+18 (index.) (92 net.)

WHILE this book includes an ex position of leading principles of the law of negligence, it is not a law book. It is designed primarily for the use of claim agents and all who may be called upon to adjust claims for personal injuries. The idea underlying the book seems to be that an honest and just claim will be met by an intelligent and honorable claim agent without recourse to legal advice, and that an ability to deal logically with facts is the chief essential for the valuation of claims, knowledge of legal principles being neces sary only as bearing upon the questions of responsibility, legal cause, duties of the employer, and the like. The circumstances which may affect the valuation of claims are very com prehensively discussed, and the book gives some sound practical advice which will be found most useful. The authors show a sincere purpose to promote honest and fair methods, and lawyers whose practice includes any consider able proportion of negligence cases will get valuable hints on the best way to deal with questions of fact and of damages. NOTES Harvard University announces the publica tion on February 26 of a History of the British Post Office, by Professor J. C. Hemmeon of McGill University. In addition to an account of the development and present organization of the postal department of Great Britain, the book includes a discussion of the parcels post, the telegraph and telephone system, and similar subject s. It is issued as Volume VII of the Harvard Economic Studies.

"Recent Administration in Virginia," by F. A. Magruder, Ph.D., Instructor in Political Science in Princeton University, is the latest of the Johns Hopkins University Studies to be received (Series 30, no. 1). The expansion of administrative functions since the constitutional convention of 1902 is considered, and the present administration is contrasted with that of the period covered by the constitution of 1869. The Proceedings of the thirty-second annual meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association con tains the interesting debates on legal adminis tration and reform of procedure which took place at the sessions at Cedar Point last July. Congressman Samuel W. McCall's address, "Representative as Against Direct Govern ment," is one of the most important papers included. The President's address, by Hon. Allen Andrews, contains reflections on public criticism of the courts. Other papers include ''Liability Legislation, its Purpose and Methods of Enforcement," by James Harrington Boyd, and "The Reclamation of the Arid West, with (a little) of the law under which it proceeds," by Stanley E. Bowdle. Mr. Boyd's address, taking up more than eighty pages of the book, treats the subject in a very logical and system atic manner, and is a most valuable feature of the volume.

BOOKS RECEIVED An Essay on Hinduism: Its Formation and Future — illustrating the laws of social evolution as reflected in the history of the formation of the Hindu community. By Shridhar V. Ketkar, M.A., Ph.D., Ph.D. in Sociology, Politics, and Political Economy, ex-president of the Society of Compara tive Theology and Philosophy. Cornell University, v. 2 of History of Caste in India. Luzac & Co., London. Pp. xxxix, 162+ 15 (appendix). History and Organization of Criminal Statistics in the United States. By Louis Newton Robinson, Assistant Professor of Economics in Swarthmore College. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York. Pp. viii, 100+4 (appendix). ($1 net.) The Law of Interstate Commerce and its Federal Regulation. By Frederick N. Judson, of the St. Louis Bar. 2d ed. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago. Pp. xxiv, 630+ 77 (appendix) + 26 (table of cases) + 71 (index). ($6.50.) The Marriage Law of Canada: its Defects, and Suggestions for its Improvement. By George S. Holmested, one of His Majesty's Counsel for Ontario. Arthur Poole & Co., Toronto. Pp. Ui, 46 +5 (index). ($2.) The Sunday Law in Canada. By George S. Holmested, one of His Majesty's Counsel for Ontario. Arthur Poole & Co., Toronto. Pp. ix, 111+17 (index). ($3.)