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the position of the modern German jur ists.
The so-called “analytical" school
is giving way to a school of scientific jurisprudence which freely utilizes the results of the social sciences. Through out the world, we are tending toward unity of legal knowledge and a common basis of legal investigation, and the work
of contemporary German jurists, par ticularly of those who, like Gareis, have most successfully shaken off the shackles of Hegelian idealism, should no longer be regarded as alien and forbidding by the American lawyer. Gareis's exposition of the principles of legal classification is marked by an ex treme lucidity—the lucidity of invin cible logic and strong common sense.
Especially clear is the differentiation of
the fields of public and private law, and of the law of persons and the law of things. The publication of his treatise in this country should work a wonderful clearing of the atmosphere of juridical discussion.
In laying aside the book, I cannot too strongly emphasize the merit of its succinctness and brevity, which should
in no way be confused with super ficiality of treatment, the author having compressed a vast amount of pregnant manner within the scope of a short ex
position.
Its simplicity, in these days
of complex and involved treatises, is an inestimable advantage. It also deserves
to be prized by American students as a most useful key to the German Civil Code.
Reviews of Books COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy, under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898. By William Miller Collier. 8th edition. with amendments of 1903, 1906 and 1910, and with decisions to date, by Frank B. Gilbert of the Albany bar, editor of Street Railway Reports, Annotated; joint author of Com mercial Paper, etc. Matthew Bender 8: Co., Albany. Pp. lxxxi, 854+ 244 (General Orders and Forms) + 157 (Rules and Statutes) + 51 (General Index). ($7.50.)
EGARDING the general merits of Collier on Bankruptcy, there is not much to say in addition to our comment
on the seventh edition of this leading work on the subject (see 21 Green Bag 587). The eighth edition has been made necessary by the important amendments to the national bankruptcy law adopted last year. These amendments were not radical, as they were the outcome of a
careful study of the working of the law, and were framed to clear up some points concerning which there had been con
fusion, but they were far reaching, over riding interpretations of the statute that had come to prevail in many jurisdictions.
Moreover, during the two years
since the preparation of the seventh edition, many important decisions on
matters of bankruptcy law have been rendered. Mr. Gilbert, the high quality of whose work was exhibited in the seventh edition, has consequently made
some important changes in his treatise. The new edition has kept pace with the latest developments of the law in this important field, and will continue to perform the service of an indispensable handbook of the law as it stands at the present time. The system of useful cross references and convenient appen dix of general orders and forms continue to play the part of prominent features. There is no increase in the number of
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