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 Reviews of Books qualities of symmetry and complete ness. The book puts perhaps greater em phasis on British positions than some other recent English treatises, the writer concerning himself to a large extent with British objections to provisions of the Declaration of London, and ad hering steadfastly to the British posi tion with regard to the capture of pri vate property at sea. On deeper prob lems of international relations little is attempted in the line of constructive discussion. But the tone of the book will in the main be approved by those who believe in the progressive tendency inspiring the Hague Confer ences and recent proposals aiming at a closer international solidarity. The authors are also likely to be commended for maintaining a level of sound scholar ship. ADVOCACY IN GERMANY Die Advokatur unserer Zeit. By Dr. Edmund Benedikt, Hof- und Gerichtsadvokat, Vienna. 4th ed., revised and enlarged. Otto Liebmann, Berlin. Pp. 228. (3 M. paper. 4 M. bound.)

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the realization of high standards of pro fessional ethics, and in various proposals for reform. As the evils of an over crowded and underpaid profession are evidently not less familiar abroad than here, the views expressed are likely to arouse a sympathetic interest on the part of American readers. We wish there were a work of similar scope and quality on the profession of the law in the United States. Such a book would attain great popularity and accomplish a great deal of good.

THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION The Corporate Nature of English Sovereignty; a dissertation. By W. W. Lucas, B.A., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Submitted to and accepted by the University of Cambridge as a work of original re search for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Jordan & Sons, Ltd., London, W.C. Pp. 91. (2s. 6d. net.) The Origin of the English Constitution. By George Burton Adams, Professor of History in Yale College. Yale University Press, New Haven; Oxford University Press, London. Pp. 341 + appendices and index 36. ($2 net.) The Making of the English Constitution, 4491485. By Albert Beebe White, Professor of His tory in the University of Minnesota. G. P. Put nam's Sons, New York and London. (1908.) Pp. 401 + index 8. ($2.)

WRITTEN by an Austrian excep MR. LUCAS'S discussion, which will tionally well informed with regard be recalled by readers of the Law to conditions of professional practice Quarterly Review, having appeared in in Germany and Austria, this book has the pages of that journal, is written to won a popularity evidently due not only develop the thesis that England has to its high moral tone but to the mass never been a real monarchy, but that of interesting facts presented, and to the various powers of government have the mellowness of the writer's apt ob always been exercised by separate agen servations on questions which bear cies co-operating now in one way, now directly on the lawyer's earning capacity in another. The political history of and the higher rewards of his career. England, viewed in this light, presents The relations of the lawyer to the gov few sharp contrasts, but exhibits in the ernment, to his client, to his brother main continuity of development. The practitioners, and to the community in reader is thus made to feel that England general receive attention. Advice such has been true from the period ante as would prove useful to a young man dating the Conquest to a type of modi debating the choice of a career is abund fied or incomplete democracy, con ant, but the book also appeals to the forming to current ideas of Germanic maturer interest of those interested in origins and leading without abrupt