porated outside the United Kingdom, which on the first of July, 1908, has a place of business within that Kingdom, to file certain documents with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies within a limited time, to file annual statements with the registrar, and, in certain cases, to state the name of the company and the place of its birth in its prospectuses, on its British places of business, and in its letters and other documents. The section also provides for service of process and notices at the address required to be registered. This section, which probably suggested the book, is adequately dealt with, but it is only one of many matters which interest and affect foreign traders in this Kingdom. As the author says, 'The Merchant Shipping Acts apply to every foreign vessel which enters its ports,' and the Patents Act, 1907, is of supreme importance to every foreign inventor. The author modestly warns his readers not to expect to find an unfathomable mine of information in the 148 pages of the book, but what it contains will be found useful, not only to the foreign traders to whom it is principally addressed, but also to British lawyers and laymen. F. E.

Die Weltanschauung der Jurisprudenz. Von ALFRED BOZI. Hanover : Helwing. 8vo. viii and 227 pp.-This book criticizes the defects which, according to the author, characterize the legal doctrines and modes of procedure prevailing at present in the German Courts, and which in his view are still under the influence of the formulas of mediaeval scholasticism. He advocates a system of jurisprudence based on the methods of the natural sciences and recognizing the doctrine of evolution as applicable to the growth and development of legal institutions. The ideas expressed by the author are not entirely original and his arguments and illustrations are not always convincing, but a discriminating reader will nevertheless find the book interesting and instructive. E. S.

Russisches Recht; Vormundschaftsrecht, Patentlizenz, Rücktritt, Vertragsstrafe ein Gutachten von Dr. F. K. NEUBECKER. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. 1908. 8vo. 141 pp.-This is an opinion written by a German jurist on some points of Russian law arising in a case which was tried in a German Court. By way of appendix a comparative statement is added dealing with the rules contained in various systems of law, as to the right of a party to a bilateral contract to refuse performance of his obligation, in the event of a breach on the part of the other party. In so far as this statement deals with English law it does not show any traces of profound study. E. S.

La Doctrine de Drago. Par H.-A. MOULIN. Paris: A. Pedone. 8vo. xii and 368 pp. 7 fr.-This volume consists of essays by the author, who occupies the chair of international law at the University of Dijon, G. W. Scott, and Amos T. Hershey (the two latter in French translation), pretty full extracts from the proceedings of the Hague Conference of 1907 relating to the Drago doctrine,' and a bibliography. It will be welcome to special students of public law and diplomacy, as it collects the important materials in a moderate compass, and M. Moulin's own observations, though we do not agree with them at all points, are always worthy of attention. How far he is right in regarding the adoption of General Porter's rule by the Hague Conference as an unqualified victory of the 'Drago doctrine' is a question for specialists to consider at leisure.

Matthiae Calonii praelectiones in iurisprudentiam civilem: ediderunt WILHELM CHYDENIUS et VÄINÖ NORDSTRÖM. Helsingfors: 1908. 4to. Five leaves unnumbered; 677 pp.-Calonius (1737-1817) was a Finnish

jurist, and Rector of the University of Abö at the time of the Russian conquest in 1808-9: he afterwards held office under the new government without abandoning his academical work. These lectures (not prepared for publication by the author) are now edited from a MS. in the University library of Helsingfors. The law therein expounded appears to be Swedish law as applied in Finland about the end of the eighteenth century, and the language is a businesslike professional Latin which does not pretend to be classical. An English writer knowing nothing of Swedish or Finnish law can say nothing more except that the book is very handsomely produced and has all the appearance of being well edited.

Verschollenheit und Todeserklärung nach deutschem und ungarischem Rechte, etc. Dargestellt von Dr. ELEMER BALOG. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht. 1908. 8vo. 212 pp. A monograph on presumption of death under German and Hungarian law, with reference to the drafts now in hand of a Hungarian Civil Code and Civil Procedure Code.

A Lawyer's Manual of Book-keeping. By H. HUGHES-ONSLOW. Second Edition. London: Butterworth & Co. 1908. (108. net.)-This book is intended to convey a knowledge of book-keeping sufficient to enable lawyers and others to keep their own books of account according to the most modern and simple principles of double entry. The book is prescribed by the Council of the Law Society for their examination in book-keeping.

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The Revised Reports. Edited by Sir F. POLLOCK, assisted by O. A. SAUNDERS, J. G. PEASE, and W. BowSTEAD. Vols. XCIX and C. 18531855. (17 Beavan; 2 Drewry; 4 Ellis & Blackburn; 15 & 16 Common Bench; 2 Weekly Reporter.) London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co. Vol. XCIX, xviii and 919 pp.; Vol. C, xvi and 909 pp.

Ruling Cases. Arranged, annotated and edited by ROBERT CAMPBELL. With American notes by JAMES T. KEEN. Vol. XXVII (First Supplementary volume). London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. Boston: The Boston Book Co. 1908. La. 8vo. xliii and 788 pp.

The Acts relating to Estate Duty and other Death Duties included in the Finance Act, 1897. By Sir EVELYN FREETH, assisted by C. R. ELLIOTT. Fourth Edition. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. xxvii and 355 pp. (128. 6d.)

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