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and the remaining chapters deal with The History of the British Post Office. By J. C. special topics. The transportation of Hemmcon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics the mails having resulted in a substan in'vMcGill University, v. 7, Harvard Economic Studies. Harvard University, Cambridge. Pp. tial profit, there is really no room for 239 + 17 (appendix) + 5 (index). ($2.00 net.) the question whether government owner THIS carefully executed history of ship has been advantageous to the coun the Britishpost-office is mainly try or the reverse. With regard to the a collection of facts. The author surely telegraph and telephone enterprises, cannot be accused of partisanship, for there is more chance for a difference of he advances few sweeping generaliza opinion. The writer's judgment as re tions and draws few conclusions save gards mistakes of policy is likely to be those that appear inevitable. In the accepted as sound. This survey should first four chapters he treats the subject assist our own country to profit by by periods, down to contemporary times, British experience.

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Index to Periodicals Baseball. " Baseball and the Law." By L. A. Wilder. 19 Case and Comment 151 (Aug.). "Coming to the adjudications on matters per taining to baseball, it is found that, with a few exceptions, the decisions involve either the con tract relation of club and player, or the applica tion of the nuisance or Sunday laws to baseball. As early as 1882 a case involving the former matter came before the United States circuit court for the western district of Pennsylvania, wherein it was held that a baseball player who had signed an agreement to execute, between certain future dates, a formal contract to play baseball for a certain club during its season, could not, by a bill in equity, be compelled to execute the formal contract, or enjoined from contracting with or playing for another club. Alleghany Baseball Club v. Bennett, 14 Fed. 257." Biography. "Henry Erskine." By J. A. Lovat Fraser. 24 Juridical Review 51 0"ne)"Romilly, the Law Reformer." From the Law Times (London). 46 American Law Review 558 (July-Aug.). Corporations. "Commercial Registration in Japan." By John Gadsby. 28 Law Quarterly Review 305 (July). Criminal Law. "The Immigrant in the New York County Criminal Courts." By Robert Ferrari. 3 Journal of Criminal Law and Crimi nology 194 (July). "My suggestions? First, Public Defenders, who will much better represent defendants, both because they would be more competent than defenders now are and because of their capacity as public officers to be of invaluable service in setting the power of the County in motion to aid defendants in the collection of evidence, and with witnesses. Second : Larger staffs of Dis trict Attorneys and of Public Defenders. Third:

Public Prosecutors and Public Defenders who understand the languages of the people who are brought before the courts. Fourth: Interpreters Fifth: More and better judges." See Criminology. Criminal Procedure. "Procedure in Crimi nal Courts." By William N. Gemmill, Judge of Chicago Municipal Court. 3 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 175 (July). "Such legislation is urged as will effectuate the following changes in the criminal laws of this state: — "First: The abolition of the grand jury, "Second: The designation of certain appellate courts as courts for criminal appeals whose duty it shall be to remain in continuous session until all appeals are disposed of. "Third: Instructions to juries should be oral and exceptions should be allowed only when objection is made and exception taken before the jury has retired from the bar. "Fourth: Some method should be provided by which the original record of the trial court may be transferred at once to the court of criminal appeals. "Fifth: All courts of criminal appeals should have the right to summon and hear the evidence of additional witnesses, when newly discovered evidence is urged as the ground of appeal. "Sixth: Courts of criminal appeals should have the right to compel the presence of appellant and his counsel upon the call of the calendar, to examine appellant under oath if desired and to require his counsel to state the points relied upon to sustain the appeal. "Seventh: Such courts of appeal should an nounce in court at the close of the hearing, if they choose to do so, their decision and the reasons which led to it. Such reasons so stated should be taken down in shorthand and when