representation in Professor Gray's Cases on Property, Vol. IV, is here touched upon. For example, the matter of "Testamentary Capacity and Intent" is adequately treated, as is also the distinction between wills and other dispositions of property. The subject of "Descent" is very well treated. This subject is particularly difficult of presentation in a casebook which is intended for use in different jurisdictions in America, and the author has covered it very well, not devoting an inordinate space to it.

An examination of the cases cited shows that the English authorities which lie at the foundation of many of the doctrines treated in the book, and which may well be said to be classical, are freely used. In addition, the book contains many recent cases from the American courts. An examination of the American cases cited shows that the author has used excellent judgment in his selection of them, both in the matter of the jurisdictions from which they are chosen and in the choice of strong, well-written opinions. An appendix contains the English Statutes, which are largely the model of American Statutes, on the subject of "Wills." The book has a good index, and the matter of footnotes has been very well handled, as they are not overloaded with citations.

-University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Of the two volumes under review, the casebook on Carriers is a well-chosen selection of the English and American cases upon this subject and introductory topics. The many phases of this modern and everchanging branch of the law are recorded, and frequent footnotes supplement the necessary omissions in the main text. In an appendix appears a copy of the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of Bills of Lading, and the forms recommended by that board for uniform adoption.

Professor Costigan has essayed a large task, in attempting to give us cases covering the law of Wills, Descent and Administration in a volume of less than eight hundred pages. For the number of decisions in the English and American courts upon this subject runs far into the thousands, and the number of differing rules is not much less. The learned author has included nearly three hundred cases, representing diverse jurisdictions, and appears to have covered the field in an excellent manner. The arrangement of cases is logical, and the footnotes valuable. The English statutory provisions upon these subjects appear in the appendix.

The series is not designed with a principal eye to the practitioner, but for the student and professor of the law. If the succeeding volumes come up to the high standard set by these two, the work will be one of the most successful contributions to the preliminary study of the law that our country has produced.

-Yale Law Journal.

Professor Frederick Green, of the University of Illinois Law School. American Casebook Series, James Brown Scott, Editor. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1910. Pp. xx, 614.

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CASES ON WILLS, DESCENT AND ADMINISTRATION. By George P. Costigan, Jr., Professor of Law in Northwestern University. Same Series. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1910. Pp. xx, 781.

The casebook system of the study of law has rarely received as convincing a statement of its merits, as that which appears as a general preface to the American Casebook Series, by the Editor of the series, to which the two volumes above belong.

The main purpose of the series is to furnish complete and concise collections of cases on the subjects which are ordinarily required for admission to the bar, and taught in our law schools. The authors' list is a notable one, and comprises names which are recognized nation-wide as authorities.

This standard work on constitutional law, now quoted with Cooley and Story, has been steadily growing in favor for fifteen years. Written in clear, straightforward English, no other book on the subject is more readable. Arranged in the style of the Hornbook Series, the statements of rules being in heavy letters, the amplifications in ordinary text, with key references to the principal reporting and digest systems, none is more available for ready reference. The book is adapted as an outline for lectures in colleges and law schools. The new edition embodies the changes that the progress of the times has made in national legislation. These embrace questions relating to the development of government by commissions with delegated powers, social and labor reforms, and the insular possessions of the United States.

-The Advocate of Peace.

TIFFANY'S PERSONS AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS. Second Ed., revised by Roger W. Cooley, author of "Briefs on the Law of Insurance," and special lecturer in Legal Bibliography. Hornbook Series. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. Pp. 551+table of cases and index 105. ($3.75.)

The first edition of this standard treatise was published in 1896, and its popularity was due to the satisfactory manner in which it met the demand for a comprehensive treatise on the common law of persons as modified by statute in the United States. The arrangement was a decided merit, the rule of law being conspicuously stated in black type, followed in each case by explanatory text. The plan of treatment followed did not, to be sure, enable the reader to ascertain the statute law of his own state. The common-law rule was first set forth, being followed by the substance of such statutes as have been generally adopted, and their interpretation by the courts, leaving the reader to ascertain the law of his own state for himself. But as a practitioner is assumed either to be pretty familiar with the statute law of his state or to be able to turn to it readily, this method cannot be criticised; moreover, the wisdom of concentrating the law student's attention upon local rules to the neglect of those generally prevailing is open to doubt. So that Tiffany's Persons and Domestic Relations was well designed to prove serviceable, and but few inaccuracies were noticed in the first edition.

During the past fourteen years the statute law has undergone much change, particularly with reference to the property and contract rights of married women, consequently Mr. Cooley found it necessary to make some additions to the text, the material additions being in that portion of the work dealing with the separate property of married women and in the chapter on Separation and Divorce, a section relating to the extraterritorial effect of divorce having been added. The principal work of the revisor has been the incorporation of the later decisions into the notes. Even in the case of the law of Master and Servant, where it might have been expected that there would have been important changes, and where changes are certainly impending. the editor has seen fit to retain the original text substantially unaltered. A book so largely concerned, however, with fundamental doctrines does not require that frequent revamping neces

sary in the case of treatises which cover a subject with greater minuteness. In the law of divorce, for example, there has been soine activity of recent years on the part of Legislatures, yet it has scarcely resulted in noteworthy innovations nor radically modified the principles set forth in this volume on its first appearance.

The second edition of the work enables it to keep pace with recent developments in the law, its citations being sufficiently complete, and on the whole it well fulfills its purpose. -The Green Bag.

BRIEF-MAKING AND THE USE OF LAW Books. By William M. Lile, Henry S. Redfield, Eugene Wambaugh, Edson R. Sunderland, Alfred F. Mason, and Roger W. Cooley. Second Edition. Edited by Roger W. Cooley. West Publishing Co. 1909. Pp. xii.

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In the second edition of this well-known manual, Professor Lile's introduction, Professor Redfield's article, "The Brief on Appeal," and Professor Wambaugh's, "How to Use Decisions and Statutes," remain. The article of Mr. Mason, entitled in the first edition, "American Law Publications," has become "Where to Find the Law," and has grown from forty-six pages to seventy-six. The article entitled "How to Find the Law" has been rewritten completely by Mr. Cooley. A further article, entitled "The Trial Brief." by Professor Sunderland, has been added.

It is evident that the utility of a book already useful has been increased. Mr. Mason's article will repay reading by the practitioner and may be commended to the student as fair and accurate. Mr. Cooley has performed a distinct service to all who use law books by his lucid and practical exposition of the mechanics of the search for authorities. Professor Sunderland's article also is distinctly a contribution. When one remembers how he learned these things painfully and laboriously by experience, he can but envy the rising generation, for whom the mechanical part of the use of a library has been systematized so thoroughly and expounded so clearly. One who fails to make the best of the materials that are available has but himself to blame. Whatever mere method may achieve is put within his reach. -Illinois Law Review.