EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " State Inter ference with Interstate Commerce," by H. P. Burnett, Virginia Law Register (V. xiii, p. 497)CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "Railroad Rate Regulation," by Herbert S. Hadley, The Brief (V. vii, p. 175). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "Has the State of California the Right to Exclude Japanese Subjects from the Public Schools?" by Warren Tubbs, The Brief (V. vii, p. 196). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "Levy of At tachment upon Rolling Stock of a Railroad Company Doing Interstate Business —■ Is it a Regulation of, or an Infringement Upon, the freedom of Interstate Commerce?", by W. F. Meier, Central Law Journal (V. ixv, P- 35i). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Segrega tion of Hawaiian Lepers by Administrative Process," by W. F. Meier, Central Law Journal (V. Ixv, p. 314). CONTEMPT. "Statements by Attorneys in Arguments, Pleadings, and Briefs pertaining to Rulings and Decisions, as Contempt of Court," by Sumner Kenner, Central Law Journal (V. Ixv, p. 331). CONTRACTS. "The Right of Recovery for Partial Performance of Entire Contracts," by Graham B. Smedley, Central Law Journal (V. Ixv, p. 292). CONVENTIONS. "The International Law Association at Portland," by T. Baty, Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxiii, p. 75). Reviewing and commenting upon the work of the meeting. CORPORATIONS. "Liability of Corporate Directors," by Frederick Dwight, Yale Law Journal (V. xvii, p. 33). Arguing for a more vigorous insistence on actual oversight of affairs and criticising the tenderness of courts toward directors who do not direct, but are not personally concerned in wrong-doing. CRIMINAL LAW. "The Trial of the Insane for Crime," by James Hendrie Lloyd, Albany Law Journal (V. lxix, p. 306). CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (Scotland). "The Criminal Procedure and Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Bill," by Henry H. Brown, Law
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Magazine and Review (V. xxxiii, p. 60). Analyzing and commenting on a proposed bill simplifying criminal procedure. DIGEST. N. Y. Appeals Reports (V. clxiv-clxxxv). Colin P. Campbell, L.L.M., Matthew Bender & Co. A single line digest with references to No. E. Rep., an index to notes contained in the Annotated Rev. Ed. of N. Y. Reports and a table of cases in which no opinion was filed. EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY. Employers' Lia bility Act of New York, Alger & Slater (2 ed.), Matthew Bender & Co. The author has made this second edition much more valuable as he has been enabled to treat his subject in the light of numerous recent decisions by the courts of New York and other states, thus construing quite fully and authoritatively all provisions of the act. EQUITY-CONTRACTS. In the November Illinois Law Review (V. ii, p. 217) is a careful analysis of the English cases involving, "The Word 'Not' as a Test of Equity Jurisdiction to Enjoin a Breach of Contract," by Henry Schofield. The article is inspired by two recent Illinois cases, which applied the test formerly adopted in England, but never widely accepted in this country. ETHICS. " Legal Ethics," by John C. Harris, Albany Law Journal (V. lxix, p. 300). EVIDENCE. Handbook of the Law of Evidence, by John Jay McKelvey, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, 1907, 2d ed., price S3. 75 delivered. Like all clear treatises on this subject in recent times this book is frankly based on the teaching of the late Professor Thayer who did not live to complete his own work. Mr. McKelvey's book is intended chiefly for students of principles and is not a digest for searchers of precedents. In this new edition its statements are admirably clear and accurate. Recent cases are frequently cited by way of illustration of new tendencies of the courts and give evidence of a sifting of many de cisions. Portions of the text have been largely rewritten. Occasional lapses in proof reading cause regret. HISTORY (England). " The Trial of Peers" by L. Owen Pike, The Law Quarterly Review (V. xxiii, p. 442). An examination of Mr.
