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 The Legal World bulletin to comprise the following eleven collections: Modern Anglo-American Law — Includes the modern law as contained in statutes, current session laws, decisions, digests, treatises, collections of leading cases, and journals of the United States, of England, of Ireland, and of Canada; official copies of all the briefs and records filed in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Modfrn Continental Law —- Now numbers some 12,000 volumes of the law of the twentythree European countries, as contained in statutes, decisions, journals, and treatises, is more comprehensive in scope than any other collection in the United States. This collec tion is particluarly valuable to lawyers having a foreign clientage. It is in constant use by counsel from every part of the United States. International Law — Numbers nearly 3,000 volumes, and includes a large quantity of printed material relating to American, to British, and to Continental Diplomacy. Ancient, Oriental, Primitive, and Medieval Law — Includes the Hindu, Mohammedan, Hebrew, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and sundry other systems, as well as the mediaeval European materials. It numbers 14,(XX) volumes. Roman and Civil Law — Numbers 2,500 volumes, including the library of the late Moritz Voigt, of Leipzig, Germany, and contains many rare volumes. Ecclesiastical Law — Numbers 1,500 volumes, containing a selection of the most useful texts, commentaries, and journals. Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law —• Numbers 700 volumes, and includes all the important American, English, German, French. Italian, and Latin texts on this subject. Criminal Law and Criminology — Now num bers over 2,000 volumes. Anglo-American Legal History — Will include material relating to English Historical Legal Literature, complete sets of Colonial session laws (mostly reprints), revisions, contemporary and modern treatises on the laws of the colonies, and all other available material related to the history of the development of the common taw in England and the United States This collec tion now numbers about 2,500 volumes. Latin-American Laws — Will include collec tions of the laws of Mexico, the Central Ameri can and the South American States, following the arrangement in the Gary Collections of Modern Continental Law; that is, a collection

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of the codes, ordinances, decisions of the Su preme Court, of the most important treatises, and of the leading law journals. Thus far the volumes installed number 1,500, and will be increased as rapidly as the material can be acquired. Legal Bibliography — Numbers some 500 volumes and pamphlets, covering all topics and countries.

The 3XCcNamara Trial The McNamara trial at Los Angeles, after costing the state what is estimated as about $200,000, came to an end Dec. 1, when James B McNamara pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and John J. McNamara to that of dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles. The trial began on Oct. 10. The defense fought for delay. They raised the question of the legality of J. J. McNamara's extradition in the Cali fornia courts; they moved for the quash • ing of the indictments on the ground that the grand juiy was biased; they de manded a new judge. Clarence S. Darrow, their counsel, exhausted every pos sible technicality in his fight for his clients, but could not prevent their final arraignment on Oct 11. Then the prose cution announced its intention of try ing the two prisoners separately, and elected to take first the case of James B. McNamara, the younger brother, who is accused of having been the more active partner in causing the actual explosions. He was placed on trial for the death of Charles J. Haggerty, a machinist, who was one of the twenty-one killed in the Los Angeles Times explosion. Though the trial has come to an end before even the case for the prosecution has been opened, it will long be remem bered in legal annals for the extraordi nary length to which the process of the choice of a jury was carried. After seven weeks of continuous sessions only eight jurors had been finally selected, and the proceedings seemed intcrmin