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Washington University Law Review Volume 14 Issue 1 January 1928 Review of “The Department of Justice of the United States,” By Albert Langetuttig L. H. Breuer Office of the U.S. Attorney Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview  Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation L. H. Breuer, Review of “The Department of Justice of the United States,” By Albert Langetuttig, 14 ST. LOUIS L. REV. 096 (1928). Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol14/iss1/23 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact digital@wumail.wustl.edu. ST. LOUIS LAW REVIEWfor that reason it is to be regretted that he passed the subject of insolvencyas defined by the Act and as a condition, if required, when filing an invol-untary petition in bankruptcy, with only a comment in a footnote.Again, cases on the subject of pleading when filing an involuntary peti,tion have been omitted. The young practitioner in a contested case, havingperhaps followed official bankruptcy Form No. 3 without a great deal ofnecessary amplification, might find himself in a very embarrassing positionfor a while, unless he had made further and independent study of the re-quired allegations when pleading. Of course, a case book is not intended totake the place of the digest or the elaborate books published by authoritieson a particular subject, yet it is very often referred to as a handy meansof quickly finding the case desired.The publication is very nicely compiled and undoubtedly entailed a greatamount of work on the part of the author, and to those who prefer the casebook method of instructing it can be highly recommended.CLYDE W. WAGNER.St. Louis University School of Law.THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES, by Albert Langetuttig(Institute of Government Research, Studies in Administration). Bal-timore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1927. Pp. 318.Perhaps no other question in this country is today receiving more earnestconsideration on the part of the serious minded and thoughtful people thanthat of law enforcement and the prevention of crime. And a governmentnever has a more serious business than the enforcement of its law.At this time and for some time past it has been pretty generally felt thata so-called crime wave has been sweeping this country and is now by nomeans abated but, on the contrary, that the public generally still feels theblighting effect of its disastrous reign. In days gone by, the commission ofcrime was in the main limited to the square-jawed, weather-beaten, andhardened professional criminal, whose offenses were largely crimes ofviolence. But today the criminal courts are deluged with men and womenof every type, from the high to the low, both young and old, including thehardened and tender, and their offenses are no longer confined to any par-ticular line, but now exhaust the catalogue of criminal offenses.Giving heed to this state of affairs, and considering the cause thereforand the remedy, has led many to take stock, so to speak, and to undertakea sort of a survey of our whole situation and a consideration of our lawsand the methods of enforcement employed by municipal, state and theFederal Government. All such and any who are unfamiliar with the Fed-eral Government's method of enforcing its laws and punishing offenders,can read this book with profit and find a vast amount of informationtherein. The author has undertaken to deal with his subject in plainunderstandable language, apparently avoiding the use of technical terms,so far as possible, and is, therefore, intelligible alike to the layman and tothe lawyer.The first chapter of the book gives an interesting historical developmentof the law-enforcing arm of the Government from the beginning. OtherWashington University Open ScholarshipBOOK REVIEWSchapters deal with the organization and operation of the Attorney Gen-eral's office and with various branches or departments thereof, such as theAdministrative Division, Technical Divisions, the Solicitors, the DistrictAttorneys, the Marshals, and various clerks of the Federal courts. Tothese are added a discussion of the Federal prisons and their operationand control, a discussion of litigation by the United States, the force andeffect of the opinions of the Attorney General, and the relation betweenhis office and that of the Comptroller.All the foregoing is set out in Part One of the book, while Part Twodeals with problems in the administration of the Federal laws and theagencies for the detection of crime.On the whole, the book presents a most excellent picture of the Depart-ment of Justice of the United States, at work in the various departmentsat Washington and in the field.L. H. BREUmR.Office of the U. S. Attorney, St. Louis, Missouri.CAaZS ON DAMAGES, by Judson A. Crane. St. Paul: West Publishing Co.,1928. Pp. xiii, 508.This is an addition to the American Casebook Series and replacesMechem and Gilbert on Damages as a unit of the System. The presentwork contains many of the old leading cases on the subject, as well asmany late cases to aid the student in fitting the principles to modern con-ditions. These cases show the influence of various workmen's compensa-tion statutes, the automobile, and many other factors which have becomeimportant comparatively recently. These newer cases are particularly ofvalue in an outstanding course such as Damages; for the amount of re-covery is of as great interest to lawyer and client as the rules of law whichdetermine whether or not there shall be recovery.On other points than the wealth of new material presented here, Pro-fessor Crane's book may be contrasted with Beale's Cases on Damages, astandard work on the subject. There are fewer fragments of cases in thepresent work to confuse the student on account of the dearth of facts pre-sented. Here there is a fairly complete report of all cases included, witha few exceptions. And in addition to having a complete table of cases andindex-digest, which is a part of all casebooks in the series, Prof. Crane'sbook is arranged in a most clear and logical manner.The book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with the proceduralapplication of the law of damages, such as admission of evidence, plead-ings, and the like, and with non-compensatory damages, viz., nominal andexemplary damages. Part II illustrates the principles of compensatorydamages, their assessment and measure, while Part III has to do withdamages in specific actions, such as personal injuries, domestic relations,trespass, sales, breach of promise of marriage, and actions against tele-graph and telephone companies. The copious footnotes to almost everycase are replete with additional material, additional citations to texts,cases, and law review articles. The book is a very excellent one for animportant practical course.CHARLES H. 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