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 Index to Periodicals "Recent Interpretation of the Sherman Act." By Attorney-General George W. Wickersham. 10 Michigan Law Review 1 (Nov.). Address delivered before the Michigan Bar Association last July. "Size alone does not constitute monopoly. The attainment of a dominant position in a busi ness acquired as the result of honest enterprise and normal methods of business development, is not a violation of the law. But unfair methods of trade, by destroying and excluding competitors by means of intercorporate stockholdings, or by means of agreements between actual or poten tial competitors, whereby the control of com merce among the states or with foreign countries in any particular line of industry is secured or threatened, expose those who are concerned in such efforts to the penalties prescribed in the second section of the act, because they are en gaged in monopolizing or attempting to monopo lize such commerce." "The Trusts, the People, and the Square Deal." By Theodore Roosevelt. Outlook, v. 99, p. 649 (Nov. 18). See p. supra. "Price Restriction on the Re-Sale of Chattels." By William J. Shroder. 25 Harvard Law Review 59 (Nov.). Discussing Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park fir Sons Co., 220 U. S. 373, the writer says: "It would be difficult to conceive of a re straint of trade more complete than one seeking to fix the prices on all sales from the manufac turer through the intermediate dealers to the consumer. The manufacturer restrains him self by agreeing to sell at only one price and only to contracting dealers. All competition be tween wholesale dealers is destroyed by their agreement to sell only at a minimum price and only to authorized purchasers. The retail dealer likewise is removed from the possibility of com petition by his agreement to sell at fixed prices and to none other than the consumer. No dis coverable room for competition is left from the manufacturer to the consumer. . . . To legal ize the system of fixing prices would furnish the 'trusts' the most simple and least expensive method of accomplishing this end. The estab lishment of such nght would render nugatory the efforts of a quarter of a century to enforce the public policy declared in all the anti-trust statutes." Negligence. "Humanity and the Law." By Andrew Alexander Bruce. 73 Central Law Journal 335 (Nov. 10). "One thing is certain, and that is, that the law of negligence and of tort liability has been, and always will be, progressive. It has in the past, it is true, been and perhaps always will be, largely judge-made. It has in the past hardly been popular in its origin. It has, however, though king and judge made, largely reflected the social conscience of the king and of the judge. Though circumscribed by formalism it has had its origin and expansion in a policy of democracy and of humanity. As our democ racy and humanity grow, that expansion will continue."

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Partnership. "The Desirability of Express ing the Law of Partnership in Statutory Form." By Dean William Draper Lewis, University of Pennsylvania. 60 I' nit: of Pa. Law Review 93 (Nov.). "Whenever a subject is exceedingly complex, that is whenever it requires for the unraveling of its more difficult problems, close analytical reasoning, the chances increase that these weak nesses in the common law system will prevent the development of a body of law which will be both certain and clear. This is exactly what has taken place in the domain of partnership law, a subject which presents peculiar difficulties. . . . Of course a hundred and more years of judicial decision has of necessity cleared up many con crete questions; but the fundamental causes of confusion indicated, as well as several minor ones, still remain, and there is no reason to expect that the next ten, or fifteen, or twenty years will make matters any better than they are today. If the law of partnership is to be come more certain than it is, the fundamentals must be rendered clear, and this can only be done, for the reasons given, by the careful statutory expression of rules of law based on clear ideas of fundamental principles." Perpetuities. "Unenforcible Trusts and the Rule Against Perpetuities." By George L. Clark. 10 Michigan Law Review 31 (Nov.). "In conclusion, if a case should arise of an unenforcible trust for a purpose not unlawful in itself, it would seem a fair prediction that such a trust would be held valid if it should be limited in duration to a period not longer than twentyone years after lives in being at the creation of the trust." Preferential Voting. See Election Laws. Procedure. "Uniform Judicial Procedure — Let Congress Set the Supreme Court Free." By Thomas Wall Shelton. 73 Central Law Journal 319 (Nov. 3). "If it be decided to give announcement to the repeal of section 914 of the Revised Federal Statutes and the amendment in lieu thereof, of a statute or statutes conferring upon the federal Supreme Court the power and duty to prepare and put into effect, on the law side of the federal courts, a complete, simple, and expeditious sys tem, there will, in the opinion of able and patri otic lawyers, have been taken one of the greatest forward strides. This idea was mooted at the 1910 meeting of the American Bar Association at Chattanooga. It met with the official approval of the President of the United States in his De cember (1910) message, and there is reason to believe that Congress would gladly permit the burden to be lifted from its shoulders and placed where it belongs." "Necessity for Summary Action in Judicial Proceedings." By Judge R. B. Middlebrook. 21 Yale Law Journal 55 (Nov.). "No fair observer will contend that at this time we are suffering from a tyrannical, domi-