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stood ready to let loose upon each other the dogs of [war in the Hull incident], the Hague Convention furnished an instrumentality for the fair and careful examination of the facts, and led to reparation, so far as reparation was possible, for the injurious act of Russia." International Law. See Panama Canal. Inventions. See Literary and Artistic Prop erty. Juvenile Delinquency. See Criminology. Law Reporting. "The Revised Reports." By A. E. Randall. 28 Law Quarterly Review 276 (July). "The publication of the Revised Reports has led to one result for which the profession has every reason to be thankful, and that is that a sufficient law library can be purchased for a reasonable sum of money. I remember the time anterior to 1892, when the eleven volumes of Clark's House of Lords Cases cost /80, and the four volumes of Kay and Johnson .£16." Legal Classification. See Legal Encyclo pedia. Legal Encyclopedia. "A Juristic Survey." By H. J. Randall. 28 Law Quarterly Review 298 (July). "There is a remarkable poverty in English legal literature of works dealing with the subject of classification at all. Austin certainly recog nized its importance, but only dealt with it in the fragmentary lectures that were never pub lished during his lifetime, and most later writers are agreed that his system of classification suffers from grave defects. . . . The only modern essays of importance are the General Introduc tion to the Encyclopedia of the Laws of England by the Editor of this Review, and an appendix to Professor Salmond's Jurisprudence, and both suffer from the rather rare defect of excessive brevity. "We venture to say that a really adequate book on the subject, illustrated chiefly from Eng lish and Roman law, as the German encyclo paedias are illustrated from the German Code, would fill a very distinct gap in our legal litera ture." Legal History. "The Reception of Roman Law in the Sixteenth Century, IV." By Prof. W. S. Holdsworth. 28 Law Quarterly Review 236

(July). In this concluding paper Dr. Holdsworth deals particularly with the development of the chancery courts, and with their struggle with the common law courts for supremacy in which struggle the victory was with the common law and Parliament. We have received Roman law, but only "in small homeopathic doses at differ ent periods, and as when required." When re ceived, it has never been continuously developed on Roman lines." "Hoke-Day." By Hugh H. L. Bellot. 28 Law Quarterly Review 283 (July).

"Hoke-Day" was the great spring law festival of the Pre-Roman British, observed by the judges with impressive ceremonial. "The Forcible Recaption of Chattels." By C. A. Branston. 28 Law Quarterly Review 262 (July). Mainly a study of thirteenth century common law principles. See Dred Scott Case. Literary and Artistic Property." "Com mon Law 'Property in Notion.' " By George E. Brand. 1 Bench and Bar n. s. 100 (July). Literature. "The Law and Lawyers of Bal zac." By Judge John Marshall Gest. 46 AmericanLaw Review 481 (July-Aug.). A notable paper read before the Pennsylvania Bar Association. See 23 Green Bag 456. Negotiable Instruments. "Holder in Due Course." By A. M. Hamilton. 24 Juridical Re view 41 (June). "The question whether an original party to a bill or promissory note can be a holder in due course recurs through various English cases. The point appears to be an evasive one." Panama Canal. Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls." By Professor Emory R. Johnson. North American Review, v. 196, p. 174 (Aug.). "The ships engaged in the trade of which the Panama route has a monopoly will comprise the larger share of the canal s tonnage, but the marginal traffic is a prize so well worth com peting for that it should be given careful con sideration in fixing the tolls to be charged at Panama. The volume of traffic and the com mercial usefulness of the canal, as well as the revenue obtained from its operation, are depend ent upon the transit dues.' Pleadings. "On the Logical Structure of Pleadings." By Mortimore Sandford. 46 Ameri can Law Review 572 (July-Aug.). "Whenever any remedy or any kind of re dress is sought in a court of justice, it is the predicate of a syllogism, which must, in some shape, be brought to the notice of the court; and unless relief can be predicated of a right or duty, and such right or duty can be made a constituent part of a syllogism recognized at law (or in equity, where the jurisdictions are separate) as valid, such right or duty as between parties does not legally exist. Ubi jus, ibi remedium. Until the syllogism is constructed, neither the court nor the party can proceed in that behalf. A contention at law, generally and in all its parts, from its commencement to its close, is a contention by syllogism, and it is this fact that gives a meaning to rules which otherwise would be unnecessary or be merely arbitrary." Procedure. See Criminal Procedure, Plead ings.