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Reviews of Books The letters of Professor Holland to the Times are notable for their singu larly lucid and concise statements of principles, and for a dignified diversion of learned acumen into a journalistic channel. The letters reproduced are selected from a greater number in accord

ance with a definite plan.

To these

_ letters, arranged in a logical order of topics, are appended erudite notes which

insure for the volume no little value as a sort of illustrative case book for the concrete elucidation of the matters dealt with in a systematic treatise.

The book deals with recent incidents in international law, including the Vene zuelan Controversy of 1902 and 1903,

the question of foreign soldiers in Eng land in 1909, the Suez Canal in 1898,

the Russian use of Chinese Clothing

the notes.

The book is certain to be

employed by classes to great advantage under the supervision of a competent instructor. Otherwise it is neither likely nor intended to be of any use, except possibly to advanced students

seeking profitable powers.

exercise

of

their

CRIMINAL PRACTICE IN ENG LAND The Ad ministration of Justice in Criminal Matters (in England and Wales). By G. Glover Alexander, M.A., LL.M., formerly Scholar of Downing College. Banister of the Inner Temple. University Press. Cambridge. England; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Pp. 158 (index). (40 cts. net.)

SIMPLE, lucid description of the workings of the English system of administering the criminal law is given by Mr. Alexander in this well printed

in 1904, the Naval Proclamation in

little book, in terms that will be readily

1906, the Question of Coal in War, and other topics of live interest. The letters are grouped under the following headings:

understood by laymen and may smooth

(1) Measures short of war for the settle ment of international controversies, i.e., friendly measures, reprisals; (2) Steps

the path of American lawyers bafiled

by the intricacies of England's compli cated judicial organization. The reader will find an account of the criminal courts, beginning with the police courts

towards the codification of the laws of

and gradually working up the ladder to

war; (3) The commencement of war, i.e., declaration and immediate effects; (4) The conduct of war, as between

the Court of Criminal Appeal and House of Lords. How the courts are consti tuted, and the mode of selecting the judges, are clearly set forth, and there are

belligerents: this is covered by eight important sections, including one on "the choice of means of injuring”; and

(5) The rights and duties of neutrals. Professor Oppenheim's "International Incidents" is not a legal text-book, but solely a collection of brief statements of

sections dealing with the various pro ceedings, though not from a technical standpoint, and with the successive stages of a criminal action. The student of procedure will glean only superficial information from the book, but it is

discussed in the course of two hours.

well written to serve its particular pur pose. The concluding pages give a brief outline of recent legislation for the pro bation, reform and discipline of offenders and for the protection of juveniles from harsh penalties. Appended is also some interesting matter relating to criminal statistics and the classification of crimi

The alternate pages are left blank for

nals.

the facts of one hundred real and imagi nary incidents, which are not discussed. The incidents are not grouped accord ing to principles involved, and the sole

object is to provide a basis for oral dis cussion in classes, the author having

found that four of them could be thus