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Oregonian Railway Decision," " How Law is Taught in Italy," " County Councils in Scotland," "The ' Negligence Clause ' in Charter Parties," "Local Government in France," " Lord Fraser," and "The Judicial System of Germany." This new Review must commend itself to the profes sion, and we are confident will meet with the success which it certainly deserves.

a paper upon the manner of carrying into effect the sentence of death by means of electricity, and there is also an account of an interesting series of experiments with the " Death Current " at the Edison Laboratory. J. Hugo Grimm has an ar ticle, in the same number, on " Insanity as a Defence to the Charge of Crime."

BOOK NOTICES. Messrs. Warren and Brandeis continue the dis cussion of "Great Ponds" in the April Harvard Law Review, in an article entitled " The Law of Ponds." The paper is an able reply to the argu ment of Hon. Thomas M. Stetson, published in the February number of this periodical. Prof. James B. Ames contributes an interesting article on "The Disseisin of Chattels."

The Columbia Law Times for April contains a paper on " Direct Taxes," by Prof. F. M. Burdick. The following statement, made by the writer, will perhaps be novel to many of our readers : — "Were one, unfamiliar with the Federal deci sions on the subject, to be asked what was meant by ' direct taxes ' in the United States Constitu tion, he would undoubtedly answer : ' Taxes as sessed upon the property, person, business, income, etc., of those who can pay them.' If his definition were called in question, he would support it not only by quotations from political economists of opposite schools, but from jurists like Judge Cooley (Cooley on Taxation, p. 6). He would be astonished to learn that the Supreme Court had given to these words as used in the Federal Con stitution a different — a purely conventional — meaning, limiting them substantially to real estate and poll taxes." The adoption of electricity as a means of execu tion in capital cases in the State of New York has naturally called forth much discussion upon the subject. In the March number of the MedicoLegal Journal, Henry Guy Carlton contributes

The American Digest, 1888 (United States Digest, Third Series, Vol. II.). West Publish ing Co., St. Paul, 1889. $8.00 net. This Digest gives full and intelligible statements of all points of law decided in each case, excluding dicta. The whole judicial law of the United States for 1888 is embraced in this volume, and the practitioner can turn to it with a certainty that every case is to be found in it, with full, clear, and reliable statements of all points decided. The work is so well known to the profes sion through the first volume (1887), that we need only say that the present volume is fully up to the standard of its predecessor, and has even been im proved in certain minor respects. The classification of paragraphs is such that reference is made ex tremely easy, and the lawyer is thus saved a vast amount of valuable time. The Digest is in fact al most indispensable to every member of the legal profession. Wharton's Law Lexicon (Eighth Edition). Edited by J. M. Lely-Stevens and Son, Pub lishers. London, 1889. This admirable Law Lexicon is too well known by the profession to need any formal introduction. Forming, as it does, an epitome of the law of Eng land, and containing full explanations of the technical terms and phrases thereof, both ancient and modern, as well as the various legal terms used in commer cial business, it is invaluable to both the student and the practitioner. This last is an improvement over all former editions, the editor having made manyadditions and alterations, thereby much enhancing the value of the work. The volume is exceedingly attractive in form; paper, type, and binding being all that could be desired.