Recent Legal Literature

Wigmore: A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of all Jurisdiction of the United States; Snyder: The Interstate Commerce Act and Federal Anti-Trust Laws, including the Sherman act, the act creating the Bureau of Corporations, the Elkins act, the act to expedite suits in the Federal courts, act relating to telegraph, military, and post roads, act affecting equipment of cars and locomotives of carriers engaged in interstate commerce, with all amendments, with comments and authorities, and rules of practice and forms used in practice before the Interstate Commerce Commission; Hughes: Handbook of Jurisdiction and Procedure in United States Courts; Gould: the National Bank Act, with all its amendments annotated and explained; Longsdorf (ed.): Current Law, A Complete Encyclopedia of New La

Recent Legal Literature

McKelvey: Handbook of the Law of Evidence (2nd ed., rev.); Wigmore: A Supplement to a Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law, Containing the Statues and Judicial Decisions. 1904-1907.; Wood: Modern Business Corporations, including the organization and management of private corporations, with financial principles and practices.

Recent Legal Literature

Bodington: An Outline of the French Law of Evidence; Tompkins: A Summary of the Law of Private Corporations and Cases on Corporations, prepared for use of Students in the University Law School (2nd ed.); Pollock: The Expansion of the Common Law; Parker: Where and How, A Handbook of Incorporatio

Recent Legal Literature

Bigalow: Centralization and the Law; Ridges: Constitutional Law of England; Kales: Conditional and Future Interests and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois; Beale: The Law of Foreign Corporations and Taxation of Corporations, Both Foreign and Domestic; Clephane: The Organization and Management of Business Corporations; Frost: A Treatise on the Incorporation and Organization of Corporations, Created Under the Business Corporation Acts of the Several States and Territories of the United States; Whitten (ed.): Yearbook of Legislation, 190

Recent Legal Literature

Dill: The Statutory and Cass Law Applicable to Private Companies, under the General Corporation Act of New Jersey, with Corporation Precedents; Noyes: A Treatise on the Law of Intercorporate Relations; Benjamin: The General Principles of the American Law of the Sale of Goods; Abbott: Brief for the Trial of Criminal Causes; Rich and Farnham (eds.): The Lawyers Reports Annotate

Book Reviews

The lawyer who, for the last two decades has kept abreast of the literature of the law, is appreciative of the fact that no branch of the old law has received such scientific and scholarly treatment, as has the law of evidence, and few of the more modern fields have been as thoroughly and intelligently cultivated. Led by Professor Thayer in that incomparable series of essays gathered under one title in his Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law, followed by Professor Wigmore with his edition of Greenleaf\u27s first volume, and later by his great work Evidence in Trials at Common Law, and this work of Professor Wigmore followed in turn by the exhaustive treatise of Mr. Chamberlayne who had previously given us the best American editions of both Taylor and Best, we are driven to acknowledge the field well tilled, even had no others been working in it. It is to be recognized however, that others have during this period done work of real practical value though, it may be, not possessing the same degree of scientific meri

Book Reviews

Loewy (trans): the Civil Code of the German Empire. As enacted on August 18, 1896, with the Introductory Statute enacted on the same date.; Parker (ed.): The Corporation Manual and Cyclopedia of Corporation Forms and Precedents; Wilcox: A Description of the Terms and Conditions upon which Private Corporations enjoy Special Privileges in the Streets of American Cities; Watkins: Shippers and Carriers of Interstate Freight; Wigmore: A Pocket Code of the Rules of Evidence in Trials at Law

Recent Legal Litertature

Freund: The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights; Parsons: The Law of Contracts; Baldwin: American Railroad Law; Gilbert (ed.): Street Railway Reports, Annotated, reporting the electric railway and street railway decisions of the Federal and State Courts in the United States, from April 1, 1903

Note and Comment

Baseball and the Judiciary - The acceptance by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of the position of supreme arbiter of professional baseball, as recently announced, raises questions of good taste if not of propriety. It has been generally assumed that Judges of the District Court of the United States have their hands amply full if they do the work incumbent upon them in a way befitting a judge of the United States. It may well be true that the salary provided by the Government is grossly inadequate, but we dare say that no one has considered that the remedy for such condition was to be found through outside jobs paying additional compensation