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 Reviews of Books Law School slands sponsor and which it has listed as No. 3 in its series of publi cations. The treatment of the constitu tional questions is logical and convinc ing Four possible methods of making federal incorporation compulsory are discussed. Two of them, exclusion of products of state corporations from inter state commerce and exclusion of their matter from the mails, the author thinks of questionable constitutionality as in fringing the equal protection of the laws. Of the other two, the writer gives his preference to exclusion of. state corpora tions from interstate commerce, though he considers that taxation of interstate commerce transacted by state corpora tions would be equally constitutional. Other phases of the subject are also discussed, and in the concluding chap ter a clear definition of interstate com merce is attempted.

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One of the most interesting of recent bar association reports is that of the last annual meeting (1913) of the Illinois State Bar Associa tion. So much discussion of the subject of pro cedural reform in Illinois took place at the ses sions that the volume contains much that is worthy of attention. Besides the extended de bate the papers delivered by President Harry Higbee, William E. Higgins of Kansas, Herbert Harley and Albert M. Kales, all touch various phases of the general topic of procedure and the administration of justice. Of the committee reports included, one of the more significant is that of the Committee on Legal Education, in which the chairman, Dean John H. Wigmore, presented a strong dissenting opinion in which he urged that more adequate recognition be paid to the laxity of requirements for admission to the bar in Illinois.

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