explanatory notes. Many students of international law and affairs will be glad to have this important body of conventional rules bound together in good print. An index would have increased the utility of the book; the omission of any general statement of the contents is perhaps accidental. The reader is duly warned that the conventions agreed upon at The Hague in 1907 by the delegates of the Powers were subject to ratification by their principals, and that the extent of the final ratifications could not be known at the date of publication (see now the Times and other newspapers of July 2, 1908).

Mozley and Whiteley's Law Dictionary. Third Edition. By LEONARD H. WEST and F. G. NEAVE. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. 8vo. 369 pp. (108. 6d. net.)-More concise than most law dictionaries, which so far is a virtue, and probably not less accurate: but the collector of 'howlers' may pause on Allegans suam turpitudinem non est audiendus: no man is allowed to incriminate himself', where the Latin is falsely translated (it means, of course, that a man may not rely on his own illegal or immoral conduct as part of his case), and the proposition which figures as a translation is manifestly not true. The first man who produces a really revised law dictionary with references to trustworthy authorities will deserve well of the profession.

Archbold's Quarter Sessions Practice. Sixth Edition. By FRANCIS R. Y. RADCLIFFE, K. C. London Butterworth & Co., and Shaw & Sons. 1908. 8vo. lvi and 732 PP. (258. net.) It is scarcely necessary to do more than to record the appearance of the sixth edition of this standard work in a more convenient format and under the capable editorship of Mr. Radcliffe, K.C. The book is distinguished by its excellent collection of forms, which are now collected together at the end of the work and have received numerous and valuable additions. The inclusion of various Home Office Memoranda will also be found useful by those who have to dispense justice at Quarter Sessions. The work in its present form will no doubt maintain its high position.

The Principles of Bankruptcy. By RICHARD RINGWOOD. Tenth Edition. London: Stevens & Haynes. 1908. 8vo. xxxviii and 439 pp. (108. 6d.)— Mr. Ringwood's sketch of Bankruptcy Law is well known. The present edition, like its predecessors, contains a carefully written and condensed statement of the law in a form convenient for business men. For students less detail and a greater explanation of the general principles would be an advantage. Condensed statements of the law, however accurate in themselves, are not so easily understood and remembered as are more discursive statements with explanation and well-chosen illustrations. Sometimes the attempt to condense results in obscurity; for instance, in speaking of the effect of disclaimer of a lease upon tenant's fixtures, Mr. Ringwood says, 'if the trustee disclaims the landlord should either take the tenant's fixtures at a valuation or give a reasonable time to the trustee to remove them before disclaimer.' The latter part of this sentence reads as if it were the landlord who had to give the reasonable time and to disclaim. The sentence is in our opinion calculated to puzzle any one who has not the opportunity of looking up the case cited as the authority for the proposition (In re Moser, 13 Q. B. D. 738).

The new edition appears to be well brought up to date and to be in no way inferior to its predecessors.

The Finance Act, 1907, in its Relation to Income Tax. By T. HALLETT FRY. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 8vo. viii and 100 pp. (68.)-In this little book Mr. Fry explains the new law relating to Income Tax contained in ss. 18 to 28 of the Finance Act, 1907. He gives the forms in use, and explains carefully and fully how they are to be used and what particulars should be given to entitle a taxpayer to relief in respect of tax upon unearned income. The actual law is contained almost wholly in the sections themselves, and only seven cases are referred to. With regard to these we regret that Mr. Fry has not given references to the best reports. Three of the cases which are reported in the Law Reports are cited only from reports which are either not generally accessible or not of much authority.

The effect of s. 19 (8) of the Finance Act, 1907 may be, as the author says, not quite clear; but we think Mr. Fry has failed to appreciate its effect. What it appears to do is, in effect, to repeal s. 34 (1) of the Finance Act, 1894, that subsection having ceased to be operative by reason of s. 8 of the Finance Act, 1898.

In other respects Mr. Fry's comments on the Act are suggestive and useful.

Legal Representatives. By SYDNEY EDWARD WILLIAMS. Second Edition. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. lxviii and 324 pp. (98.)— This book may be described as an annotated index, and is well designed to supply the practitioner with cases on everyday points relating to real and personal representatives. Our review of the preceding edition (L.Q.R. xvi. 208) expressed a favourable opinion of the book, an opinion vindicated by the appearance of the present edition, which will doubtless maintain its position among living textbooks.

The Law and Practice relating to the Formation of Companies (limited by shares) under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1907. By VALE NICOLAS. Third Edition, by the Author and W. F. LAWRENCE. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. 8vo. xxxvii and 357 pp. (178. 6d. net.)-The first edition of this work came out in 1903, and the second in 1904. In less than four more years we get a book increased in size and improved in quality. The Act of 1907 is given in full, with some notes, and there is an appendix of useful forms. These have been altered so as to include both present and future requirements.' Any one who has read the Companies Act, 1907, will have observed the necessity of making, at an early date, considerable alterations in existing articles of association.

The Companies Acts, 1900 and 1907, with Commentaries. By PAUL FREDERICK SIMONSON. London: Effingham Wilson, and Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. 8vo. lxvi and 265 pp.-Mr. Simonson has written several books on different branches of company law, and the volume under review is the best of all his works. The introduction, which occupies forty-one pages, is admirable. The two Acts are, of course, given in extenso, and the notes are full, but not too full, clear, and learned. The notes on the thirty-seventh section of the Act of 1907 (private companies) are especially valuable, and contain, amongst other things, a comparison of the advantages of a private company and a limited partnership which is by no means favourable to the latter.

Talbot and Fort's Index of Cases Judicially Noticed, 1865-1905. Second Edition. By M. R. MEHTA. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim., and Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. 1025 pp. (388.)-The new edition of Talbot and Fort' should be welcomed by the profession. It gives in a handy form the result of forty years' noting-up. This edition follows the lines of the old work, the only new features being that the manner of judicial treatment is shown, and that the dates of the cases in which the original decision is cited are now omitted. We notice some minute errors, mostly survivals from the first edition, but on the whole the work is extremely well done.

An Everyday Guide for the Secretary and other Officials of a Limited Company. By T. HALLETT FRY and HOWARD DEIGHTON. London: Effingham Wilson. 1908. 8vo. 138 pp. (28. 6d. net.)-The writers do not seem to think limited partnership will be attractive to business men as compared with private companies. We do not agree with them that there is any serious risk of the right of a limited partner to advise with the partners' leading him into being held liable as a general partner for taking part in the management, which means, we conceive, acts of management apparent to third persons.

The Constitutional History of England. A course of Lectures delivered by F. W. MAITLAND. Cambridge University Press. 1908. 8vo. xxviii and 548 pp. (12s. 6d.)—This book comes too late for more than bare acknowledgment in this number. The Publishers' note states that the Lectures were delivered by Professor Maitland at Cambridge during the Michaelmas Term of 1887 and the Lent Term of 1888. They contain a sketch of English public law at five periods, namely at the years 1307, 1509, 1625, 1702 and 1887, and are now published as an Introduction to the study of English Constitutional History.

Leet Jurisdiction in England, especially as illustrated by the Records of the Court Leet of Southampton. By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW. Southampton Record Society. Southampton: Cox & Sharland. 1908. La. 8vo. XV and 406 pp.-Review will follow.

Deeds Registration in Australasia. Stevens & Sons, Lim. Sydney: Melbourne C. F. Maxwell. 1908. Review will follow.

By JAMES EDWARD HOGG. London: Law Book Co. of Australasia, Lim. 8vo. xxix and 172 pp. (128. 6d.)—

The Law relating to Dogs. By MONTAGUE R. EMANUEL. London : Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. ix and 131 pp. (38. 6d.)

A General View of the Law of Property. By J. ANDREW STRAHAN and J. SINCLAIR BAXTER. Fifth Edition. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. xxxii, 420 and 24 (index) pp. (128. 6d.)

A Practical Companion to the Indian Merchandise Marks Act IV of 1889, with notes, &c. By ANANDRAM MEWARAM JAGTIANI. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Karachi: Union Press, Lim. London: Luzac & Co. (88. net.)

The Law of Carriers of Merchandize and Passengers by land. By WALTER HENRY MACNAMARA. Second Edition, by the Author and W. A. ROBERTLondon Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. Xxxvii and 672 pp. (308.)-Review will follow.

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The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States. By FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON. Boston: Boston Book Co. 1908. La. 8vo. xix and 386 pp.

The Law of Copyright in Designs. By LEWIS EDMUNDS, K.C., and HERBERT BENTWICH. Second Edition. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. xliii and 488 pp. (258.)

The Public Trustee Act, 1906, with introduction and notes. By F. G. CHAMPERNOWNE, HENRY JOHNSTON, and JOHN S. C. BRIDGE. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. La. 8vo. 18+ 160+ 18 pp. (68. net.)

International Law applied to the Russo-Japanese War. With the Decisions of the Japanese Prize Courts. By SAKUYÉ TAKAHASHI, Professor of International Law in the Imperial University of Tokyo. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. 823 pp. (328. net.)-Review will follow.

The Law in General Practice. Some chapters in Every-Day Forensic Medicine. By STANLEY B. ATKINSON, M.B. London: Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. 1908. 8vo. viii and 239 pp. (7s. 6d.)-Review will follow.

The Diseases of Workmen. By T. LUSON, M.D., and R. HYDE, M.R.C.S. With an introduction by His Honour Judge RUEGG, K.C. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. 8vo. viii and III pp. (48. net.)

Principles of the Criminal Law. By SEYMOUR F. HARRIS. Eleventh Edition. By CHARLES L. ATTENBOROUGH. London: Stevens & Haynes. 1908. 8vo. xl and 597 pp. (208.)

Criminal Appeals under the Criminal Appeal Act of 1907, with Rules of Court and Forms. By A. C. FORSTER-BOULTON, M.P. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. 8vo. xiv, 115 and 6 pp. (58. net.)

The Alberta Law Reports. Reported under the authority of the Law Society of Alberta. Editor, C. C. MCCAUL, K.C. Vol I, Part I. Toronto: Carswell Publishing Co., Lim. 1908. La. 8vo. 48 pp.

Ruling Cases. Arranged, annotated, and edited by ROBERT CAMPBELL, with American notes by JAMES T. KEEN. Vol. XXVII (first supplementary volume), Abandonment-Will. Addenda. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. Boston, Mass.: The Boston Book Co. 1908. 8vo. xliii and 708 pp.

Forms and Precedents.

Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, with Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Vol. XI. Peace to Proclamation. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Edinburgh: Wm. Green & Sons. 1908. La. 8vo. vii and 699 pp. (218. net per vol.)

The Revised Reports. Edited by Sir F. POLLOCK, assisted by 0. A. SAUNDERS, J. G. PEASE and W. BowSTEAD. Vol. XCVIII. 1853-1854 (3 De G. M. & G.; 14 C. B.; 23 L. J.) London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co. 1908. La. 8vo. xvi and 868 pp.

State and Family in Early Rome. By CHARLES W. L. LAUNSPACH. London: George Bell & Sons. 1908. 8vo. xx and 288 pp. (78. 6d. net.)

Die Trennung von Staat und Kirche. München: C. H. Beck. 1908. La. 8vo.

Von KARL ROTHENBÜCHER. xv and 478 pp. (M. 14.)

An Analysis of Williams on the Law of Real Property, for the use of Students. By A. M. WILSHERE. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1908. 8vo. vii and 135 pp. (58.)

La Justice Privée. Par LOUIS CRÉMIEU. Forcel). 1908. La. 8vo. xv and 324 pp.

Paris J. B. Sirey (Larose et (8 fr.)

By T. EUSTACE SMITH. Tenth

A Summary of the Law of Companies. Edition. By the Author and W. A. BEWES. London: Stevens and Haynes. 1908. 8vo. xxi and 323 pp. (78. 6d.)

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