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which throws much light on the general types of this new form of municipal government and analyzes the merits
of the system. We quote the fol lowing conclusions reached by the
and other industrial tests and practices must be adopted, as well as the form of organization, if the efficiency of the municipal corporation is to be brought up to the standard maintained in our
present-day industrial enterprises."
author:
“That the commission form of city government is a panacea for all muni cipal ills, is a claim that no one familiar with the problems of municipal ad ministration will make. That it is an
BlGELOW ON FRAUDULENT CON VEYANCES
improvement on the ordinary system
Bigelow on Fraudulent Conveyances. Revised edition, by Kent Knowlton of the Boston bar. Little, Brown 8: Co.. Boston. Pp. 762+lxix (index and table of cases). ($6.50 1m.)
of city administration as it has been
HE editor of the present work has
organized down to the present time, would seem to be borne out by the ex
perience of those cities which have operated under it for any considerable length of time.
Our present system
promises a simplification of the ma chinery of government and a definite fixing of responsibility for official action should be worthy of the careful study and consideration of all students of municipal administrative law. That the commission form of organization
is more in harmony with the industrial and business methods of today, and
more in harmony with the most im portant functions which the city is now called upon to perform, can scarcely be questioned; but that a wider ap plication of the plan will reveal defects in the system, also cannot be doubted. "It is too much to expect that the commission form as it has been perfected up to the present time will be the final form of municipal organization in this country. Other safeguards will probably have to be erected around it. Our electoral system has not yet been per
divided Dean Bigelow's work on fraud into two parts, of which the pres ent volume on fraudulent conveyances
forms an independent textbook.
The
subjects treated not only cover the
original statute of Elizabeth on fraudu lent conveyances at common law, but also the more recent statutes, such as the
American and English Bankruptcy Laws, State Insolvency Statutes, Sale of Goods in Bulk laws and laws relating to condi tional sales. In view of the provisions of our Bankruptcy Law, much of the original subject-matter of the treatises is superseded for practical purposes. The principles involved and the dis cussion of them are, therefore, of rather
academic interest and of more value to the scholar or law student than to the practical lawyer. Nevertheless, such a work has a place in legal literature, and
is of far greater value to the profession at large than the mere compilation of decisions of which so many modern text
books consist. The spirit of the ripe scholarship of Professor Bigelow, which pervades this
commission plan, the election system
book, gives it a real and permanent value. His elaborate discussion of the theory of law is a constant source of
is of the utmost importance.
illumination.
fected in this country; and under the Under the
The editor has done well
commission plan the matter of publicity is also of unusual importance. Cost
to preserve this in so large a degree in
accounting systems must be installed
editor is again illustrated in directing
the present edition. The wisdom of the
