plementary chapter by SIR COURTENAY ILBERT. London: A. Constable & Co. 1908. 3 vols. La. 8vo. This excellent work has already been noticed in its original text, L.Q.R. xxii. 244. The learned contributor of that review expressed the hope that an English translation would soon appear, and we now have one which may be accepted without discussion, as it is approved by the author, and has been seen and considered by Sir Courtenay Ilbert. From the Clerk of the House of Commons, too, we have a supplementary chapter bringing the procedure on Private Bills up to date, and a bird's-eye historical view of our parliamentary forms by way of preface. Sir Courtenay shrewdly asks where our two-party system might have been if the House of Commons had continued to occupy a circular building, like the Westminster Chapter House, or had established themselves, like Continental legislatures, in a building fashioned after the manner of a theatre.' The query would have pleased Bacon; it is quite in the manner of some of his remarks on public business. We are not sure whether another passage does or does not imply disapproval of the Defence Committee or any possible analogous novelties.

La démocratie individualiste. Par YVES GUYOT. Paris: V. Giard et E. Brière. 1907. 8vo. viii and 269 pp.--A handbook of individualist economics in the first line, but touching on constitutional law and the theory of politics; with some special reference to English publicists. Review will follow.

Du Régime des Capitulations en Turquie par rapport à la Bulgarie. Par ALBERT CALEB. Geneva: Philippe Dürr (undated). 12mo. 48 pp.-The author of this pamphlet is a Bulgarian by nationality who holds a chair as Privat-Docent at the University of Geneva. He endeavours to substantiate the claim of his country of origin to be treated as belonging to the family of Western nations, and therefore to be relieved from the exceptional régime of exterritorial justice imposed by the Capitulations on Turkey, of which nominally Bulgaria is still a vassal. In the opinion of eminent jurists,' he says, 'our legislation is one of the most liberal and progressive of the continent' (p. 47) and, as regards her administration Bulgaria is at least on the same level as Servia, Greece, and Roumania, where the capitulary régime has long since ceased to exist. M. Caleb recommends his countrymen to show themselves worthy of the removal of the 'humiliating legacy,' i.e. to make it obsolete by consistent good government and well-organized judicial institutions. All this, of course, is not really law, but politics.

Land Title Registration. By HENRY PEGRAM, of the New York Bar. 112 pp. This is a paper presented at the thirty-first annual meeting of the New York Bar Association in January last. The author was a member of the recent New York State Commission to investigate the Torrens system of Land Title Registration. The paper (now reprinted from the report of the proceedings of the Bar Association) consists of a short account (necessarily of the most sketchy description) of every system of registration of title in use among nations of the Caucasian race'-i.e. throughout the British Empire, the United States, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. In conclusion, a list of thirteen points made in favour of conveyancing by registration of title, and another list of fourteen points against it, is given. The best point against' is that relating to the difficulty of getting the land on to the register for the first time.

New Regulations of the French Law of January 30, 1907, affecting English Companies issuing or circulating their securities in France. By PIERRE PELLERIN. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 12mo. 18 pp.-In this short pamphlet we find briefly and clearly summarized the salient points of interest to English companies and company promoters intending to issue securities in France. Certain formalities must be observed, and among them a very costly insertion in the Bulletin' of the Journal Officiel.' the author puts it, the insertion has created considerable hardship upon As foreign as compared with French companies.' But, he adds, reference can be made to Table A in order to curtail the insertion; but has this been tested in practice?

The Land Registry Fiasco. By J. S. RUBINSTEIN. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. 8vo. 50 pp. (6d.)—There is Second Edition. room enough for serious criticism of the Land Transfer Act, 1897, and the working of registration under it; but the author of this pamphlet defeats his own object by the intemperate language of his attack. We do not say that all the champions of the system, from an ex-Lord Chancellor downwards, have been strictly temperate.

Journal of Comparative Legislation. Edited for the Society by SIR JOHN MACDONELL, C. B., and EDWARD MANSON. (Dec., 1907). London: John Murray. 8vo. 165-475 PP. (58. net.)New Series, Vol. VIII, Part II Among the more important articles in this number are: Customary and other Law in the East Africa Protectorate,' by Sir Lewis Tupper; 'Volenti non fit injuria in the Light of Recent Labour Legislation,' by Mr. Thomas Beven; and The Censorship of Stage Plays,' by Mr. W. F. Craies. There are also an appreciative note on Sir Edward Fry by Lord Justice Kennedy (with portrait), and Mr. Bryce's article on The Influence of National Character and Historical Environment on the development of the Common Law,' which has already appeared in this REVIEW.

Einführung in die Rechtswissenschaft. Eine juristische Enzyklopädie u. Methodologie. Von B. ERWIN GRUEBER. Berlin: 0. Häring. 1908. 8vo. viii and 174 pp.-A new and enlarged edition of the learned author's introduction to the science of law reprinted from Birkmeyer's Encyclopaedia in 1901 (L. Q. R. xvii. 105).

La Substance des Obligations dans le droit international privé. Par D. JOSEPHUS JITTA. Two vols. La Haye: Belinfante Frères. 1906-1907. La. 8vo. Vol. I, xv and 468 pp. Vol. II, xx and 534 PP.

Law and Practice in Divorce and other Matrimonial Causes. DIXON. Fourth Edition. London: Butterworth & Co. Ixiv, 439 and 74 (index) pp. (228. 6d.)

1908. 8vo. By W. J.

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A Selection of Leading Cases in the Common Law, with notes. By WALTER SHIRLEY SHIRLEY. Eighth Edition by RICHARD WATSON. Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. lxviii and 710 pp. (168.)

English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English Mediaeval History. By PAUL VINOGRADOFF.

1908. 8vo. xii and 599 pp. (168. net.)-Review will follow.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.

The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, with Notes and Index and an Introduction. By W. HANBURY AGGS. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim.; Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. xi and 34 pp. (18. 6d. net.)

A Short Treatise on the Law of Wills. By A. GUEST MATHEWS. London: Stevens & Haynes. 1908. 8vo. XXXV and 367 pp. (78. 6d.)

The Revised Reports. Edited by SIR F. POLLOCK, assisted by O. A. SAUNDERS, J. G. PEASE, and WILLIAM BOWSTEAD. Vol. XCVI (16 Beav.; 1 Sm. & G.; 9 Exch.). London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co. 1908. La. 8vo. xix and 990 pp.

The Annual Digest, 1907. By JOHN MEWS. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim.; Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. XV and 393 PP.

By GEORGE SHARSWOOD.

An Essay on Professional Ethics. Fifth Edition (Reports of the American Bar Association, Vol. XXXII). Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson Co. 1907. 8vo. 196 pp.

Die Tuberkulose nach ihren juristischen Beziehungen in rechtsvergleichender Darstellung. Vortrag gehalten auf der 6. internationalen TuberkuloseKonferenz am 21. September 1907 in Wien. Von DR. F. K. NEUBECKER. Leipzig: A. Deichert. 1908. 8vo. 36 pp.-We fear we must leave this to the Faculty of Medicine.

Legal Representatives, being a concise treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators as modified by the Land Transfer Act, 1897. By SYDNEY EDWARD WILLIAMS. Second Edition. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. lxiii and 324 pp. (98.)-Review will follow.

The Principles of Bankruptcy. By RICHARD RINGWOOD. Tenth Edition. London: Stevens & Haynes. 1908. 8vo. xxxvi and 439 pp. (108. 6d.)

The Annual County Courts Practice, 1908. Edited by His Honour Judge WILLIAM CECIL SMYLY, K.C., and WILLIAM JAMES BROOKS. Two vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim.; Stevens & Sons, Lim. 8vo. Vol. I, xxxii and 1,308 pp. Vol. II, vii and 632 pp. Index, 180 pp. (258.)

The Yearly County Court Practice, 1908. Edited by His Honour Judge WOODFALL and E. H. TINDALL ATKINSON, assisted by WALDO R. BRIGGS and HORACE C. FENTON. Chapter on Costs and Precedents of Costs by HARRY COUSINS. London: Butterworth & Co.; Shaw & Sons. 8vo. Vol. I, cxxviii and 1,564 pp. Vol. II, xxxvi and 662 pp. (258.)

Statutes of Practical Utility passed in 1907, arranged in alphabetical order in continuation of Chitty's Statutes.' With notes, &c., by W. H. AGGS. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim.; Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. X, 1001-1332 pp. (108. 6d.)

Stone's Justices' Manual, being the Yearly Justice's Practice for 1908. Fortieth Edition. By J. R. ROBERTS. London: Shaw & Sons; Butterworth & Co. 1908. 8vo. clvii and 1,399 pp. (258.)

The Justice's Note Book. By W. KNOX WIGRAM. Eighth Edition. By LEONARD W. KERSHAW. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim.; Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. 8vo. xxvii and 458 pp. (78. 6d.)

The Master Mariner's Legal Guide. By ALBERT SAUNDERS. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Effingham Wilson. 1908. 8vo. xliv and 524 pp. (108. 6d. net).

A New Guide to the Bar, containing the most recent regulations and examination papers and a critical essay on the present condition of the Bar of England. By L.L.B. Third Edition. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1907. 8vo. vi, 268 and iii (index) pp.

Code Civil Allemand. Tome Troisième. Livre IV (art. 1297-2385). Paris: A l'Imprimerie Nationale. 1908. La. 8vo. 913 pp.

The Law of Wills. By J. ANDREW STRAHAN. Maxwell, Lim.

London: Sweet &

1908. 8vo. xxxiv and 182 pp. (78. 6d.)

A Treatise on the Law of Easements. Eighth Edition. By R. ROOPE REEVE. Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. xxvii and 660 pp.

By CHARLES JAMES GALE. London Sweet & Maxwell, (258.)

Williams' Law and Practice in Bankruptcy. Ninth Edition. By E. W. HANSELL, assisted by A. ROMER MACKLIN. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim.; Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. cvi and 993 pp. (308.) -Review will follow.

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Roscoe's Criminal Evidence. Thirteenth Edition. By HERMAN COHEN. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim.; Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Ixviii and 937 pp. (£1 118. 6d.)-Review will follow.

District Councils. By H. D. CORNISH. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. xxiii and 412 pp. (78. 6d.)-Review will follow.

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