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two phases. Federal criminal statis for the whole Dominion, to hold sessions tics, in the form they have possessed in each Province and bring about a uni up to the present time, "tell little or form administration of the law of di nothing of criminality in the United vorce. He also urges that the law as to States," and state criminal statistics impediments to matrimony be changed, are "almost without exception bad." to remove the objections to which the doctrine of pre-contract in the Province A reorganization is needed. The writer's plan for reorganiza of Quebec gives rise. tion, which is "not radical nor even In his work on Sunday laws, the same new," contemplates co-operation be author gives a historical review of Eng tween the federal census office and the lish legislation regarding dies non juridstates in putting a standard uniform ici, by way of introduction to the system into operation. The same re present state of the law. Legal pro form that has been carried out in the ceedings, sittings of Parliament, and field of mortality statistics is advocated. consultation of judges on Sunday are Eighteen states have come into the area considered, and information regarding of co-operation with the census office Canadian laws as to Sunday observance, in mortality statistics, and this registra sports, and games, and prosecutions for tion area will gradually be extended violations, is included. from year to year by the admittance of those states which come to maintain NOTES the required standard of excellence. It The proceedings of the twenty-third annual will be conceded that the same plan meeting of the Washington State Bar Associa in connection with criminal statistics tion, held at Spokane last July, contains the president's address delivered by Hon. C. W. will surely prove practicable and effi Howard of Belli ngham and the following papers: cient. "Delays of Courts," by Judge S. J. Chadwick CANADIAN MARRIAGE AND SUN DAY LAWS The Marriage Law of Canada: its Defects, and Suggestions for its Improvement. By George S. Holmested, one of His Majesty's Counsel for On tario. Arthur Poole & Co., Toronto. Pp. iii, 46 + 5 (index). ($2.) The Sunday Law in Canada. By George S. Holmested, one of His Majesty's Counsel for On tario. Arthur Poole & Co., Toronto. Pp. ix, 111 + 17 (index). ($3.)

IT WILL surprise most American lawyers to learn that doubts re garding the validity of a divorce often arise in Canada, owing to conflicting decisions by courts of different juris dictions, in the same manner as in the United States. To remedy this evil, the author of these suggestions urges that all Provincial matrimonial courts be superseded by one court established

of the state Supreme Court; "The Courts of Germany," by Fred H. Peterson of Seattle; "The Facts of the Case," by Federal District Judge Frank S. Dietrick of Boise, Idaho; "The Recall of Judges, by T. J. Walsh of Helena, Mont., and "The Ownership of Property in the United States by the Federal Government, Whether as Proprietor or Sovereign," by Russell L. Dunn of San Francisco. The Transactions of the seventh annual meet ing of the Arizona Bar Association, held March 18-19, 1912, contain the President's address, "Compensation of Employees Injured in Indus trial Accidents," by Frederick S. Nave of Globe; "Reversals for Technical Reasons," by Walter Bennett of Phoenix; "The Lawyers' Relation to Legislation," by Frank O. Smith of Prescott; "The Commission Form of Municipal Govern ment as Applied to the Citizens of Arizona;" "The Conservation and Utilization of State Lands," by R. L. Alderman of Globe;and "Some Attainable Reforms to Expedite the Disposal of Civil Business," by John Mason Ross of Bisbee.