EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT most recent development in England and America. The two succeeding volumes will be devoted to the history of particular depart ments of the law. The authors represented in the first volume comprise such men as Maitland. Holdsworth, Dillon, Bryce, Beale, and Bowen. A large part of it is devoted to a series of articles entitled " A Century of English Judicature," by Van Vechten Veeder, previously published in the Green Bag. It is impossible in small compass to thoroughly review the many different authors repre sented in this volume, but as each has been taken at his best and after an examination of many thousand publications, it will be readily realized that the material included is of the highest value to a student of legal history. It is to be hoped that it will accomplish the purpose of the editors by stimulating real interest in this neglected subject. HISTORY. In the September Harper's (V. cxv, p. 538), Frederick Trevor Hill pre sents another of his accounts of the decisive battles of the law, entitled, " A Fight for Freedom of the Press." This is an account of the case of United States v. Callendar, tried in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Virginia in the early days of the Republic, by the notorious Judge Chase, under the unpopular sedition law. The story is well told and worthy of the telling. HISTORY (Australia). History of the ship "Melville Island." Case by J. B. Castrean, Paul & Hewitt, Melbourne, 1906. INTERNATIONAL LAW. " The State in Constitutional and International Law," by Robert Treat Crane, one of the John Hopkins University Studies, John Hopkins Press, Omaha, 1907. A discussion of the systems of- classifications and terminology in which the word state is used in different senses by the two systems of law. INTERNATIONAL LAW. " De La Pro tection Diplomatique des Nationaux A L'Etranger." by Gaston de Leval, Bruxelles, 1907. A valuable discussion of principles under which citizens are protected abroad. JURISPRUDENCE. " Customs and Cus tomary Law," by Ashutosh Mukerjee, Bom bay Law Reporter (V. XIV, p. 225).
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JUVENILE COURTS. " Hon. John A. Cal dwell and the Juvenile Court of Cincinnati," by Eliza Spruhan Painter, Ohio Law Bulletin (V. lii, p. 490). JUVENILE COURTS. Ernest K. Coulter, deputy clerk of the Children's Court in New York, contributes to the September Circle (V. ii, p. 133) an article on an extension of the probation system in New York, entitled "The Big Brothers and the Children's Court." LIBEL AND SLANDER (Nature of "Fair Comment "). " Fair Comment and Qualified Privilege," by Norman de H. Rowland, The Commonwealth Law Review (V.' iv, p. 202). Upholding the view that the defense of fair comment is a branch of qualified privilege. LEGISLATION. " Recent Legislation on the Mississipi River," by Robert Marshall Brown, September Popular Science Monthly (V. lxxi, p. 131). LITERATURE. " Recollections of a Prac titioner," by John S. Wilkes, judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Law Notes (V. xi, p. 109). Interesting incidents of Tennes see practice. LITERATURE. Another entertaining article is the address by Samuel Kalisch before the New Jersey State Bar Association entitled, "Military Tactics of Trial by Jury," published in the New Jersey Law Journal (V. xxx, p. 232). LITERATURE. In the August New Jersey Law Journal (V. xxx, p. 228) is an entertain ing account of a libel case in the court of Queen's Bench at Dublin entitled, " Scene in an Irish Court Room," by A. D. V. Honeyman. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. "Compe titive Bidding in Letting Municipal Contracts for Street Paving when Patented, or Monopo lized Articles or Materials are Involved as a pha,se of the Case of the Will of the Law v. the Will of the Judge," by Eugene McQuillin, Central Law Journal (V. lxv, p. 198). NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW. "Effect of Negotiable Instruments Law on Liability of the Surety," by " T. A. S.", Sep tember Law Notes (V. xi, p. 105). Adverse criticisms of the recent case in Oregon, of Cellare v. Meachem, 89 Pac. Rep. 426, where it was held that a person who signs his name to a note as accommodation maker, adding the word " surety " to his signature, is not
