Index to Periodicals King something in return. . . . It is now quite generally conceded by the courts that a common carrier of passengers is not only liable for the exercise of a high degree of care in the carriage of its passengers, but is liable for flaws and defects in its cars and machinery, provided the manufacturer could have ascertained their exist ence by a high degree of care, but regardless of the fact as to whether the railway company itself
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did you bust, Mr. Roosevelt, and what male
factors of great wealth did you punish?" Camorra Trial. "The Neapolitan Camorra and the Great Trial at Viterbo." By Walter Littlefield.
Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 405 (July).
“Secret commands were given the Minister of War — commands which his colleagues in the Departments of Justice and the Interior knew
(even after the most thorough examination),
nothing about, and Captain Fabbroni and his
could have ascertained the defect after the same had been manufactured." See Old Age Pensions.
companions were ordered ‘to purge’ Naples. Together these Three Musketeers of Modern Italy laid out their cam ign. Fabbroni, with documents all in proper orm, was to probe the
Miscellaneous Arlicles of Interest lo the Legal Profession America. "The New Spirit in America." By Prof. L. T. Hobhouse. Contemporary Review, v. 100, p. 1 (July). "The ‘Bosses’ of the old type are said to be dead or dying out everywhere. Though the Commonwealth still wages uncertain war with the Trusts, few appear to think that the methods by which the reatest of the Trusts built up its power would e available today. Finally, the railways have been tamed by the Interstate Commission, and have learnt at an
rate the
first lesson in the doctrine that they have to be the servants rather than the masters of society.” Biography. "The Militant Justice Harlan.’ ' Current Literature, v. 51, p. 33 (July). “With such a militant career in war and litics, surely no one can be surprised that J’iidge Harlan can still, at the age of seventy eight, manifest a certain degree of militancy even with a solemn-looking b ack robe draping his tall form." “Grotius, and the Movement for International Peace." By R. Walton Moore. 18 Case and Comment 81 (July). “He knew that nations, without their consent, cannot be subjected to the natural law which imposes u n them moral obligations. But he insisted t at they should oonsent to be thus subjected. He meant that their positive law should express their moral sense. He was ad versely criticized for theorizing and dreaming about what the law of nations should be, and,
as some believed, never would be, rather than announcing what it was.
But as i understand,
the validity of his premise has for a long time been uncontested. Unless I misapprehend, it has from the foundation of our government been approved in this country. It seems to pervade the utterances of our courts."
"The Life Story of J. Pierpont Morgan." By Carl Hovey. Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 507 (July). Telling the story of Mr. Morgan's wonderful generalship in the panic of 1907. “Theodore Roosevelt Please Answer." By
archives of the police, courts and prisons. Farris, with letters of introduction from eminent
persona es in Rome, was to enter the charmed circle 0 the Neapolitan aristocracy. "There remained for Capezutti the hardest and most dangerous task of all. He, in the guise of one of the brigands, escaped from his own Sardinia, was to enter the ‘mala vita’ of Naples
and gather the roots of the Honorable Society of the Camorra, while his comrades plucked its fatal fruit in the professional and social life of the city. "These three men began their work in silence and in darkness. Five years were before them — five years of secret and perilous toil. Then the light was to shine over the most extraordinary and romantic feats of detection that the age can produce." Fiction. "Strategy — A Story Partly True." By Judge A. G. Zimmerman. 18 Case and Com men! 88 (July). Roman Catholic Church. "The Pope and Democracy." By William Canon Barry. Atlan tic Monthly, v. 108, p. 8 (July). "Long before the American Constitution was dreamed of, and nearly two hundred years previous to the States-General of 1789, our lead ing theologians, Jesuits in the front, had afiirmed that power comes to the ruler through the people, who are its immediate depositary. In resisting that superstition which makes kings irre sponsible, these eminent teachers were follow ing St. Thomas Aquinas; they did but repeat the lessons inflicted on European tyrants by the Papacy during its glorious Middle Age. To bring out the whole of the story by citation from documents is not now my design. Scholars know it well. Pope Leo XIII has thrown into lucid Latin the idea itself in his beautiful style;
and mortale the el Del,’uent or that state other paper entitled which ‘ ins ibertas,‘ ‘Im will furnish me with warrant enough for the parallel on which I am insisting. "The sum of these things is that as regards the
ns who shall govern, the Catholic
Church is a free elective system; that Catholics are as much members of a voluntary associa tion as are the citizens of every true Republic; that the Pope himself is, according to the sublime ascription, ‘Servant of the servants of God’;
M. E. Stone, Jr.
Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 487
(July). Treating of Mr. Roosevelt's behavior towards "malefactors of great wealth.” "Just what trusts
and that consequently he is at home in a demo cratic age, as he never could be under the yoke of the old absolute monarchies. Therefore he belongs to the future, not to the ancient regime."
