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Index to Periodicals The treatment is largely historical, showin how the fisheries dispute actually started. The award is considered with reference to its practical consequences. rather than in its egal aspect. See International Servitudes.
Nominations. “Direct Primaries-A Needed Measure of Reform.’ By Darwin R_ James, Jr. Editorial Review, v. 3, p. 1111 (Nov.). “Direct Primaries-——Vain Refomi Tinkering and its Moral-Labor Saving Devices." By James L. Brewer. Editorial Review, v. 3' p. 1126 (Nov.). _ Two articles on the aflirmative and nega trve sides, respectively, of the question. Osborne Once.
See Party Politics.
Party Politics. “The New Politics— Parties and Men." By William Garrott Brown. North American Review, v. 192, p. 630 (Nov.). A second article on the subject (see 22 Green Bag 658), wherein the author predicts that there will be two parties in this country, one the part of privile e, the other the party oppose to it; and e thinks this sure to be the result, whether the latter party is to be the Democratic party or is to be a new party organized by the Pro essive Republicans. oosevelt receives eoquent
States. taken u
He believes that state rights will be by the Republicans, and that this
issue wi divide the arty, new parties arising on the ruins, one avoring Mr. Roosevelt's “new nationalism" and the other Mr. Taft's “old nationalism." The way is prepared for a wholesale revolutionizing of parties, and parties will thus come to mean something. England. “The Story of the Osborne Case." By Harold Cox.
Nineteenth Century, v. 68,
p. 569 (Oct.). This article goes fully into the circum stances of the noted case of Osborne v. Am amated Societ of Railway Servants (22 reen Bag 135, the decision in which has been hi hly distasteful to the Labor party in Eng nd, inasmuch as it has made it impossible for Labor members of Parlia ment to secure any remuneration for their services except through voluntary subscrip tion. "The Position of Trade Unions." By Harold Cox. Quarterly Review, v. 213, no. 425, p. 567 (Oct.). The political demands of the English trade unions and the complexity of the situation wing out of the Osborne judgment are ere set forth. England. “Conservatisrn." Quarterly Review, v. 213, no. 425, p. 501 (Oct.).
We list this pa r because some readers may be interested in its thoughtful historical review of the vicissitudes of political parties
homage from this writer, but is conceived as
in En land during the
lacking the characteristics necessary to a sound, safe leader of a progressive opposition party. There must be no one-man power, and proper leaders can come only throu h the
treate from the stan point of one who believes that the Unionist cause can succeed only by steady adherence to conservative principles. Patents. "Liability of the United States for Use of Patented Inventions; with special reference to the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to Provide Additional Protection
awakening of “a widespread, an intel ‘gent,
and a stubborn patriotism." “The Confusion of American Politics." By Sydney Brooks. Fortnightly Review, v. 88, p. 646 (Oct.). The writer makes some acute and just comments on Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt, their methods and principles, but he betrays an undue bias in favor of that popular cult of exaggeration which the sensational maga zine writers and Mr. Roosevelt have done so much to foster. Mr. Brooks greatly over estimates the devotion of the American people to this cult. “It is because he has returned from Europe more than ever the foe
of
Privile e
that
Mr.
Roosevelt
has
stepped instant y back into the moral leader ship not only of the Republican Party but of the American people." The results of the November elections, however, hardly con firm such a statement. "American Affairs.”
By A. Maurice Low.
National Review, v. 56, p. 271 (Oct.). Reviewing the important part which the doctrine of state rights has played in American politics, this writer considers that a political
rssue has at last been found in the United
ast hundred years,
for Owners of Patents of the United States,
and for Other Purposes,’ approved June 25, 1910." By George A. King. Chicago Legal News, v. 43, p. 74 (Oct. 15), 10 Phi Delta Phi Brief 138 (Nov.). This paper was read before the Patents Trademark, and Copyri ht Section at the recent annual meeting 0 the American Bar Association. It gives a very complete, detailed exposition of the purpose of the act and the import of its various provisions. “Mechanical Equivalents in the Law of Patents." By Hugh K. Wagner. 71 Central Law journal 275 (Oct. 21). The writer finds the law on this subject in a somewhat confused state. Penology. "Fifteen Years’ Work in a Female Convict Prison." By the Countess of Bedford. Nineteenth Century, v. 68, p. 615 (Oct.).
