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Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUIVIBER. Editorial Board. » John G. Palfrey, Editor-in-Chief. Wirt Howe, Treasurer. Arthur W. Machen, Jr., Eugene H. Angert, William W. Moss, Joseph P. Cotton, Jr., Charles O. Parish, Roy C. Gasser, . Sanford Robinson, George B. Hatch, Dean Sage, Jr., Augustine L. Humes, Beekman Winthrop, Albert S. Hutchinson, Bruce Wyman. The Law School. — The Law School opens with an entering class of about the same number as last year. Full statistics will as usual appear in the December issue. In the last annual report to the Board of Overseers the Committee on the Law School recommended especially that the staff of instructors be increased, that the number of students in the classes be diminished, and that more attention be paid to common-law pleading. It is interesting in this connection to note the changes in the curriculum. Professor Brannan, who has been a practising lawyer in Cincinnati, and for the last two years a professor in the Cincinnati Law School, will give the courses on Part- nership and Bills and Notes. The Bemis Professorship of International Law, founded five years ago, becomes a reality in the hands of Professor Strobel, late Minister of the United States to Chili, who has also filled a number of other diplomatic positions. Thanks to the kindness of the Harvard Law School Association, the School this year has the unusual advantage of a series of lectures by Professor Dicey, Vinerian Professor of Law in Oxford University. One of the most gratifying announcements is that of Professor Williston's return. He will take the new course on Bankruptcy this year, and there seems every prospect that next year he will resume his full classes. Mr. Swift, a practising lawyer in Boston, and for several years United States Marshal, takes the course on Sales. Mr. Westengard, LL.B., 1898, will conduct the course on Pleading, and will take charge of three of the sections in Criminal Law. Professor Wil- liams has resigned his chair, and Property II will be again conducted by Mr. Dodge. The course on Roman Law will be omitted. The new course on Patents will be given by Mr. Storrow, of the firm of Fish, Richardson, & Storrow. Damages, omitted last year, returns to the . active list, as does New York practice. The Bail Courts, which were started last year to give practice in pleading, will be continued. Consti- tutional Law has become a three-hour course, and Carriers is increased