the protection of the Act the limited partnership must be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Act, which requires certain particulars to be sent to the Registrar. When so registered, the limited partner shall not take part in the management of the partnership business, and shall not have power to bind the firm, but may by himself, or his agent, at any time inspect the books of the firm and examine into the state and prospects of the business, and may advise with the partners. If a limited partner does take part in the management, he will be liable for all the debts and obligations incurred while he does so as though he were a general partner. In what we have said we have outlined sufficiently the aim and object of the Act, to the detailed provisions of which we refer our readers to the present manual. In its introduction there is a succinct epitome of the provisions and scope of the Act, and to the principal sections of its text are appended instructive notes. The full text of the Partnerships Act, 1890, is also given, as well as a draft limited partnership deed. "A THE JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES' PRACTICAL GUIDE. By Henry Since the passing of the Companies Act, 1862, no more important measure affecting company law has entered the statute book than the Companies Act, 1907, some of the sections of which came into operation on its passing (28th August last), although the greater part of the Act only comes into force on 1st July, 1908. Its provisions are far-reaching in their effects, and it is to be regretted that, if it was not possible during last session of Parliament to carry through a codification and consolidation of all the numerous Acts affecting joint-stock companies, an effort was not made to embody in one Act the provisions of the Act of 1900 and the Act just passed, so as to avoid in the latter the many alterations made by it on the earlier of these two most important statutes. The labyrinths of statute law affecting joint-stock companies are almost inexplicable, and perplex the most assiduous specialist in that branch of law, not to speak of the commercial community, who are so largely and deeply interested and concerned in its administration. It is therefore of essential importance to those whose daily task is to interpret this bulky and confused mass of statutory regulations, and the wide range of case-made law to which it has given birth, that they should have the benefit and advantage of reliable guides to unfold, as clearly and as far as it is possible to do so, the intricacies which puzzle and distract them in their attempt to arrive at a sound construction of what the law purports to settle. In every respect the work before us satisfies this requirement. We have gone carefully through the text of the present edition, and we have pleasure in testifying that we have found it quite up to date in dealing with the provisions of the recent most important addition to the statute book. AN OUTLINE OF THE LAW OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. By H. P. MacMillan, M.A., LL.B., Advocate, formerly Examiner in Law in the University of Glasgow. Edinburgh: A. Baxendine. 1907. (3s. 6d. net.) The substance of this manual is based on a course of lectures delivered in 1901 under the auspices of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, with the object of describing the innovations on the law of joint-stock companies introduced by the Companies Act, 1900. In a revised and widened form, these lectures are now published as an outline of the law of joint-stock companies for the use of students, which professes to trace the main features of the law relating to the creation, general management, and extinction of limited companies, without pretending to deal in detail with the many complex legal questions connected with company administration. The general principles of company law are briefly but clearly set forth, and to bankers, accountants, and others who are frequently associated with the formation and administration of public companies the work will be of some service. It is to be regretted, however, that its publication was not delayed until after the passing of the Companies Act of this year, which effects so many important alterations in the Act of 1900. These alterations could then have been noticed in the text, a considerable portion of which deals in detail with the provisions of the Act of 1900. THE LAW RELATING TO COVENANTS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE. Second edition by Joseph Bridges Matthews and Herbert M. Adler, M.A., L.L.M., both of the Middle Temple, Barristersat-law. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd. (7s. 6d.) This is a second edition of the work by Mr. J. B. Matthews, which was published in 1893. The important case of MarimNordenfelt Guns & Ammunition Company v. Nordenfelt, decided by the House of Lords in 1894, rendered a second edition of the book desirable, and the author, in conjunction with Mr. Adler, has now prepared and issued the edition before us. In Chapter II. of the work the Maxim-Nordenfelt case is discussed at length, and Chapter IV. deals with the construction of covenants relating to the restraint of trade, and especially with the important question as to their divisibility. A good part of the work is taken up with a digest of cases, followed by tables of cases, divided in the following useful manner:-Table A, containing a collection of words, phrases, and clauses which have received a particular construction; and Table B, in two parts, the first of which contains a list of cases in which restraint held valid, and the second of which contains a list of cases in which the restraint held invalid. A good index completes a most satisfactory work on a branch of law of the utmost importance to the commercial world. AN EPITOME OF REAL PROPERTY LAW FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd. (68.) This is a fourth edition of Mr. Kelke's book on Real Property in Messrs. Sweet & Maxwell's Student Series, prepared by him with the assistance of Mr. Partington, whose success in the solicitors' examinations proves him to be well qualified for the work. It is an admirable outline of the subject and matter; type and arrangement have all been so contrived as to conduce to the rapid acquisition of a general knowledge of the subject by the student. Several improvements with that end in view have been made in the present edition, such as the addition of tables at the end of each chapter presenting at a glance an outline of its contents, and the variation in type so that leading words and phrases readily catch the eye, both of them features of great usefulness for revision purposes. NOTABLE SCOTTISH TRIALS. TRIAL OF JAMES STEWART. Edited by David N. Mackay, Writer, Glasgow. Glasgow and Edinburgh William Hodge & Co. (5s. net.) The first thing that strikes one in glancing at the list of the trials in this series already issued is the judicious selection made by the publishers. True it is that, with the exception of the City of Glasgow Bank case, all the accused persons on conviction were liable to the sentence of death, but the particular offences charged are so different that the series, as a whole, is bound to appeal to quite a variety of tastes. The present volume breaks new ground. The trial of James Stewart of the Glen-if trial and not burlesque it can be called-is one of the most remarkable and interesting in Scottish history. The years that have passed since James Stewart suffered the last penalty of the law at Ballachulish have brought many changes to the Appin country, but the story of the tragedy of Lettermore, passed on, as it has been, from father to son, lives in memory still. Little wonder that the tragedy has already attracted the novelist. Robert Louis Stevenson founds on it in "Kidnapped" and "Catriona," and, later, Neil Munro in "Doom Castle" refers to the Inveraray country at the time of the trial. The proceedings as now recorded have all the interest and excitement of a fascinating novel. The state of the country, the events that led up to the trial, the enmities of the clans are depicted in a manner which reflects the greatest credit on the editor. The story of the crime is soon told. The persons immediately concerned are but three-James of the Glen, Allan Breck Stewart, and Colin Campbell of Glenure. On Thursday, 14th May, 1752, Colin Campbell, on his return from Edinburgh, set out from Fort-William for Appin with a party of three. At a point in the road at the wood of Lettermore a shot rang out, and Mungo Campbell, an Edinburgh lawyer who accompanied Glenure, heard him exclaim, "Oh, I am dead!" Mungo's evidence at the trial as to what happened was that 66 he saw at some distance from him a man with a short, dark-coloured coat and a gun in his hand going away from him, and as the deponent came nearer him he mended his pace, and disappeared by high ground interjected betwixt him and the deponent, and he was at so great distance that he thinks he could not have known him though he had seen his face." This was the only real evidence submitted at the trial. The other evidence was entirely circumstantial, and circumstantial of the most flimsy description. Suspicion fell on Allan Breck Stewart, and, failing to secure him, James Stewart was apprehended and taken to Fort-William. From the first moment of his arrest James was presumed to be guilty, and was treated neither with mercy nor with justice. The trial began before the Duke of Argyll, Lord Elchies, and Lord Kilkerran at 6 a.m. on the 22nd of September, and went on without a single adjournment until 7 a.m. on Sunday, 24th September. Forty-five jurors were cited to attend. Eleven came from Bute, and were presumably free from bias that might exist in the minds of men from the Campbell country. Three Stewarts were cited, but the men of Bute and the Stewarts were ignored. Of the fifteen men chosen, eleven bore the name of Campbell. In these days the prisoner had not the right of challenge, nor was the selection by ballot. The Duke of Argyll, as president of the Court, made the selection, and throughout the course of the trial he seems to have had but one end in view, viz., that a Campbell had been murdered, and some one, and that the prisoner, must suffer for it. Stewart was found guilty, and on 8th November, 1752, suffered the last penalty of the law at Ballachulish. Everything that can now be said regarding the trial is to be found in this report. To a student of the times the most interesting parts of the volume will be found in the introduction and the appendix. In the latter there is collected a valuable number of documents to be found in no other single volume hitherto published. There are also several well-executed illustrations, including a full-page portrait of the Duke of Argyll. Mr. Mackay has performed his difficult task with conspicuous ability. The conclusion one must inevitably come to is that the murder of Colin Campbell still remains a mystery. James Stewart was hanged, and no one has ever been able to justify the doleful deed. Obituary. At Edinburgh, on 8th October, Mr. Harry Herbert Inglis, of the firm of Messrs. Inglis & Allan, W.S., Edinburgh. Deceased was the younger surviving son of Lord President Inglis, and was grandson of the Rev. Dr. John Inglis, at one time minister of Greyfriars' Church. He took little part in public life, but in his own circle of acquaintances he was recognised as an able and shrewd man of business. Born in Edinburgh some sixty years ago, Mr. H. H. Inglis attended the law classes at Edinburgh University, and was admitted a member of the Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet in 1873. He was clerk to the Ministers' Widows' Fund of the Church of Scotland, in which office he succeeded his uncle, and at one time his partner, Mr. Harry Maxwell Inglis, and between them the uncle and nephew must have held the appointment for about eighty years. Mr. Inglis was unmarried. At Irvine, on 6th October, Mr. John Norval Murray, solicitor, town-clerk of Irvine, died at his residence, Bonita, after a lengthened illness. Mr. Murray was for many years deputy to his uncle, Mr. James Dickie, the late town-clerk. On the death of the latter, less than two years ago, Mr. Murray was appointed to the vacancy, but, owing to ill-health, was only able to personally conduct the duties for a short time. Mr. Murray was a partner in the firm of Murray, Gillies, & Wilson, and amongst the positions he filled were procurator-fiscal in the Justice of Peace Court and secretary to the Harbour Trust. Notes from Edinburgb. PARLIAMENT HOUSE, 1st November, 1907. FROM a weather point of view, the sittings of the Court were resumed after the vacation under most inauspicious conditions, for no sooner were all comfortably, or otherwise, housed within the Court buildings than a veritable deluge descended from the heavens, and a darkness as of night, seldom experienced in Edinburgh, necessitated the use of as much artificial light as our resources could furnish. Unfortunately, in the rush made by the workmen engaged in the alterations to get things put shipshape for the sitting of the Court the electric light fittings were overlooked, and an imperfect supply of incandescent lamps made it necessary that candles, enclosed in antique glass covers, should be here and there distributed. The workmen were, and are still, about the premises, and the unpleasant noise of constant hammering must cause some irritation, although no complaints have been made as to the work of the Court being disturbed. Complaint was, however, made of one of the workmen who was engaged in the erection of a ventilator, his rich-toned voice being heard in one of the Court-rooms in a rendering of a song believed to be one of the repertoire of Mr. Harry Lauder. Although he was working outside the building, the ventilator transmitted the sound into |