The Harvard Law Review for June commences with a lucid, and therefore enlightening, Article by Professor Roscoe Pound, entitled Juristic Science and Law, in which he endeavours to ascertain, and prove by examples, the ultimate source or sources and processes wherefrom and whereby our legal rules arise and take shape. We can but briefly indicate his conclusions.

'Looking back over the development of the divergent docrines of the civil law and of our own law . .we may see five different processes by which legal rules have been worked out juristically and judicially in the past. The first and crudest is a method of eking out binding authority by differences and analogies, illustrated by the common-law adjudication of the question of ownership of border trees on the analogy of seisin of the trunk. The second is generalization from procedure, illustrated by .. the common-law doctrine of gift by deed without delivery as an inference from the procedural force of a seal in estoppel by deed. Out of these develop the scientific method of systematic analysis, illustrated .. in the common law by the theory of gift as made up of the elements of declared intention to give plus manifested intention to accept. A fourth method disclosed is historical. The history of legal institutions and legal doctrines is relied upon to give us a conception or a principle from which the rule for a particular situation may be reached... Lastly, we see a philosophical method, a method of deduction from some extra-legal philosophical principle, illustrated in Roman law by the doctrine as to border trees, derived from Aristotelian metaphysics and Aristotelian natural philosophy, and civil-law doctrine of gift as a legal transaction, based ultimately in part on analysis and in part on philosophical theories of the intrinsic binding force of promises fortified by XIXth century philosophical theories as to free assertion of the individual will.'

Other Articles are The World War and its Effect on Future Private International Law II., by Jules Valery, of the University of Montpelier; The Spanish Civil Code, by Peter J. Hamilton, of the United States District Court, Porto Rico; and Rights in Overdue Paper, by Zechariah Chafee, Jr., of Harvard Law School.

We have also received the Michigan Law Review for June, with Articles on Is a Contract necessary to an Escrow, by Ralph W. Aigler, of the University of Michigan; Logic v. Common Sense in Pleading, by

Nathan Isaacs of Cincinnati Law School; and The Sociological Interpretation of Law, by Joseph H. Drake, of the University of Michigan: The Yale Law Journal for May with Articles on Hindu Law and its Influence, by Alfred Swindlehurst, of the Montreal Bar; Leases and the Rule against Perpetuities, by Edwin H. Abbot, Jr., of the Boston Bar; and The Delegation of Legislative Functions, by Professor John B. Cheadle, of the University of Oklahoma: the Solicitors' Journal (London) for May and June; Law Notes of Northport, New York: The Southern Law Quarterly for May, with Articles on Deceit by False Statement of Intent, by Francis M. Burdick, of Columbia University; and The Hexabiblos-A Code of the Roman Empire still in Use, by Charles P. Sherman, D.C.L.; The Canada Law Journal for May; The Washington Law Reporter of June 21st, and our other valued exchanges, including those from British India.

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.

Law Lyrics, by E. Douglas Armour, K.C.: Toronto: Canada Law Book Company, Limited, 1918.

It is reassuring to see that the Spirit of Humour has not yet finally forsaken the Bar of this province. We have heard the opinion expressed that he had done so as a just penalty for the way in which we have allowed the profession to become commercialized. That, however, gives rise to some interesting questions, amongst others, what exactly is meant by "commercializing the profession." We wish someone with an analytical mind would enlighten us on this point. Meanwhile the genial humour of the author never fails throughout this little book. Perhaps one of the best things in it is the

DEDICATION.

It's a curious observation

To make, that dedication

Is common both to highways and to books;
But I'm satisfied that you

Must acknowledge that it's true,

No matter how ridiculous it looks.

But a highway's always free,
While a book can never be,

(The publishers, of course, would not advise it),
And so I beg to state

That I gladly dedicate

This little book to any one who buys it.

It is evident that the Spirit of Humour itself is not altogether untainted with commercialism!

Many a shrewd hit delights the reader. Witness the following in some verses entitled Past and Present:

In modern practice pleading isn't

Either art or science;

And even rules of practice don't
Require strict compliance.

The plaintiff says a thing is so;
Defendant then denies it;

The Judge hears any thing that's said

And that's the way he tries it.

We wish space would permit us to quote the whole of The Squib in which the famous case of Scott v. Shepherd which every student knows is quoted. It is, perhaps, the very best thing in the book. The Student's Dream has some capital verses, though we fancy that Student belongs to happy days, and nights, gone by. Amongst other questions which trouble his slumbers is this:

Suppose your neighbour dines with you and guzzles too much port, Are you, as neighbour, bound to give him lateral support?

If B. sues A., for that A. merely shook his fist at B.,

Is falsa demonstratio non nocet a good plea?

We all want cheering in these sad times, which is another reason why Mr. Douglas Armour deserves the gratitude of every lawyer.

The Grotius Society (founded 1915) Volume III., Problems of the War. Papers read before the Society in the year 1917. Price to non-members five shillings net: London: Sweet and Maxwell, Limited, 3 Chancery Lane, W.C. 1918.

This tastefully published little volume follows an admirable portrait of Professor Goudy, with a number of papers by eminent writers, amongst them, Treaties of Peace, by Commander Sir Graham Bower, K.C. M.G.; The Black List and The Control of Air Spaces, by J. E. G. de Montmorency, M.A., LL.B., who recently contributed a paper to our pages, and is a constant contributor to the Contemporary Review; International Law Teaching, by E. A. Whittuck, B.C.L.; and The Revolution and the Unity of Russia, by L. P. Rastorgoueff, of the Russian Bar and, also, of the Middle Temple.

The Position of Foreign Corporations in American Constitutional Law, a Contribution to the History and Theory of Juristic Persons in Anglo-American Law, by Gerard Carl Henderson, A.B., LL.D.: Cambridge: Harvard University Press: London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press: 1918: 1 Vol. Pp. 194, and Index, Table of Cases, etc.

We have in this book the following subjects treated of: The Beginnings of American Law of Foreign Corporations; the Rule of Comity; The Citizenship of a

Corporation; The Jurisdiction of the Courts over Foreign Corporations: The Power to exclude Foreign Corporations; Foreign Corporations and the Commerce. Clause; the Doctrine of Unconstitutional Conditions; and Foreign Corporations and the 14th Amendment. The cases referred to appear to be carefully considered, and the list is a long one. There is also a careful historical introductory chapter on the 'Beginnings of American law of Foreign Corporations.' We have also received:

The Development of German Prize Law, by Charles Henry Huberich, J.A.D., D.C.L., LL.D., of the United States Supreme Court Bar, and Richard King, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, London: New York, Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1918.

The American Journal of International Law: A Quarterly, Vol. 12, Number 2: April, 1918: Published for the American Society of International Law, by Oxford University Press, 35 West 32nd Street, New York, UJ.S.A.

Also Supplement to the above containing Official Documents.