a paper on "English Culture in Virginia," by William P. Trent, M.A. The rise of the University of Virginia is interestingly told, and a study of the Gilmer letters and an account of the English professors obtained by Jefferson for the University are embodied in the article.
Vol. IV. of the Political Science Quarterly opens with an exceedingly interesting number. "Scientific Anarchism," by H. L. Osgood, gives the reader a clear insight into the real aims and objects of the Anarchists, and draws the line very clearly and distinctly between the Individual Anarchist and the Communistic Anarchist. "The Ballot in New York," by A. C. Bernheim, opens up a very interesting chapter in the politics of the Empire State. The other contents are "Income and Property Taxes," by Prof. Gustav Cohn; "Irish Secession," by H. O. ArnoldForster; "The Crisis in France," by A. Gauvain.
Under its new management, the Chicago Law Journal is certainly a most readable periodical. The leading article in the May number on "The Commercial Power of the Nation v. The Police Power of the State," is from the pen of Hon. George W. McCrary. No one is better qualified to speak authoritatively upon the subject of interstate commerce than Mr. McCrary, and the article is one that will well repay a careful perusal. We wish the new Editor, Mr. John Gibbons, every success in his new enterprise. The Law Journal could not be in better hands.
BOOK NOTICES.
A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property. By Leonard A. Jones. Fourth edition. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: Boston, 1889. Two volumes. $12.00.
This admirable work by Mr. Jones is so well known to the legal profession that any further words of praise seem almost superfluous. For a thorough and comprehensive treatise upon the subject of Mortgages of Real Property, there is no work to be compared to it, and it is really indispensable to every lawyer. The present edition includes the decisions upon mortgages which have been reported since the preparation of the previous edition. The number of new cases cited is almost four thousand, and nearly one hundred pages have been added to the text. It is said that there is always room for improvement in everything, but it is difficult to see in what respect this last edition could be improved upon.
Lawyers' Reports Annotated. Book II. Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y., 1889. $5.00 net.
The second volume of this series of Reports only serves to confirm our opinion that this new departure in the system of reporting cases cannot fail to commend itself to every lawyer. It is a relief to have the wheat garnered and the chaff thrown aside by such skilful hands as Mr. Desty's, instead of being obliged to undertake the task one's self. The practitioner can turn to these Reports in the full confidence that he will find in them every important case decided in the State and Federal Courts. The Co-Operative Publishing Company deserves the unqualified thanks of the profession for undertaking this work; and the Reports should, and we have no doubt will, find a place upon the shelves of every lawyer.
Points in Pleading and Practice under the Massachusetts Practice Act. By Charles E. Grinnell. Charles C. Soule, Publisher. Boston, 1889. $3.00 net.
This work of Mr. Grinnell's will be heartily welcomed by the Massachusetts Bar. The Practice Act is taken up by sections, and all cases bearing upon each section are carefully noted, so that the practitioner has before his eyes at a glance all the decisions upon any questionable point. Throughout the book are suggestions in the form of general rules concerning modes of using pleading in the management of cases according to the Act.
