Review of Periodicals

fessor Boas clearly shows that race suicide also spells race improvement. He finds the finest physical types, as a rule, in the smallest families." Biography. Ames, James Barr. Editorial. 26 Law Quarterly Review 109 (Apr.). “Only his written work is known to us here; it shows great power of minute and accurate research combined with the faculty —perhaps the most indispensable faculty for a teacher—of never letting the main purpose become obscure. In unsettled matters he was prepared to take a bold line on principle. He condemned Doe d. Carter v. Barnard, 78 R. R. 564, 13 Q B. 945, several years before it was disapproved b the Judicial Committee in Perry v. Cli'sso [1907] A. C. 73. His convincing historical ex ‘tion has left a deep impression on the legal thought of America, and will doubtless gain wider appreciation here now that it is made easil accessible. No one has thrown so muc light on the wth of En lish legal concep tions in the ater Middle ges and the six teenth century." Canals. "English Waterways." Edin burgh Review, v. 211, no. 432, p. 273 (Apr.). “It is now proposed to expend a lar sum of public money in buying the ca 5 and running them to com to with railways. . . . If we are to natio 'ze our whole transport system, let it be done in a thorough and comprehensive manner and not in the hap hazard fashion in which we allowed railwa s to grow up and canals to be ruined. To ta canals and leave railways would involve much bitter controversy." Foreign Relations. "Mr. Knox's Scheme Bears the Germs of a World-Revolution." By Dr. E. J. Dillon. Contemporary Review, v. 97, p. 502 (Apr.). “As the fox that lost his tail convinced his comrades that the tailless state was a higher stage of perfection, and persuaded them to imitate him, the Government of the United States is striving to extend the stretch of territory on our planet from which the rifles and heavy guns of the military Powers shall be ever excluded. The entire continent of America, the islands of Cuba and the Philip ines are already taboo. Manchuria and hina are marked to follow. . . . "Whatever immediate objects ma have been floating in the minds of Messrs. 'lgft and Knox when they agreed to ut forward their gigantic scheme for neut zing Manchuria, they have inau bed a licy which seems destined to revo utionize t e world." . Germany. “The Economic Position of Ger many." By Edgar Crammond. Quarterly Review, v. 212, no. 423, p. 480 (Apr.). "Germany is rapidly accomplishing the piiilrpose set out in the preamble of her nayy of 1900, and it has not weakeded her null tary position nor has it crippled her national finances. . . .

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"The taxable resources of the United King dom are greater than those of Germany, and

our taxes at similar rates are more productive. German has tapped, if she has not already practi exhausted, certain sources of taxa tion whi this country has not et ventured to touch.

On the other hand,

rmany has

not yet pressed so far certain of the princi al taxes on which we lar ely depend, name y, the death duties and t e income tax. But we have to reckon with another factor, and

that is the greater thirft and self-sacrifice of the German people." Jonmalilm. “The Case for the Newspapers." By William Peter Hamilton, editor of the Wall Street journal. Atlantic Monthly, v. 105, p. 646 (May). "So far as the cases of unfair practice in stanoed in a previous Atlantic article by Professor Ross (see Green Bag 242) are con cerned, any newspaper man of experience could oblige him with further material of the same character. What that writer entirely fails to rove is his main contention, that the public oes not get the news. No newspaper can afiord to ignore news which contempo raries tint, and any practical man knows how di cult it would be to organize an efiec tive ccnspirac of silence. The public is protected in t e best possible way by the most rigorous competition." Mexico. "Industrial Mexico." By Other nan Stevens. Cosmopolitan, v. 48, p. 731

(May) "The man without money could not ssibly be in a worse place than Mexico. he man with money could not possibly be in a better place. Here are the riches of the earth for exploitation, with every encouragement given to the man with money and one . And not only encouragement but protection." Political Corruption. “The Beast and the Jungle." By Judge Ben E. Lindsey. Every body's, v. 72, p. 632 (May). The concluding instalment of Judge Lind sey's sensational articles. Many of his charges of political corruption could no doubt _be proved, but the articles leave an_impress1on of reckless and irresponsible vilification of corporations and political leaders, and have too strong a Populistic flavor. Railways. “ Probing the Pullman Company." By Lynn Haines. American Magazine, v. 70, p. 114 (May). The writer charges the Pullman com any with monopoly, but does not adduce acts showing any impro r suppression of compe tition; he also claiiils that there has been nearly five hundred per cent profit on the original investment, ignoring what seems obvious, that the real invested capital is much more than $100,000. Scotland Yard. "The Lighter Side of My Oflicial Life, VII." By Sir Robert Anderson,

K.C.B.

Blackwood's, v. 187, p. 508 (Apr.).