worthy of its importance? Various ways of commemorating the event will occur to those who consider it. The annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association in 1921 might be arranged to take place in the Maritime Provinces. The first sessions might be held in Halifax, to be followed by a trip through the famous Evangeline country and the historic Annapolis valley; a day or two might be given to exercises appropriate to the bicentenary at Annapolis Royal, after which the Association might cross the Bay of Fundy and conclude its sessions at St. John.

Other ways of celebrating the affair will occur to your readers; my main purpose is to direct their attention to the event.

Halifax, N.S.

J. A. CHISHOLM.

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.

Documents of the Canadian Constitution, 1759-1915, Selected' and Edited, with Introduction, Notes, etc., by W. P. M. Kennedy, M.A. (Department of Modern History, University of Toronto). Author of "Life of Parker;" "Studies in Tudor History," etc., etc. Toronto: Oxford University Press: 1918. Price, $4 net.

As he states in his Preface, Professor Kennedy's primary object in publishing this collection of documents has been to provide students of Canadian Constitutional development in the Department of Modern History in the University of Toronto, with a handy and convenient volume. But, apart from that, the widening interest in free governments, and the problems involved in the great question of progressive unification of the Empire, render such a volume as this most timely. The Constitutional History of Canada divides itself into six well defined periods (which natur-· ally form the divisions of this volume)-1763 to 1774, 1774 to 1791, 1791 to 1840, 1840 to 1867, and 1867 to the present day. Professor Kennedy, of course, has

included in his book the great documents which form the pivot points in this constitutional development— The Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Constitutional Act of 1791, the Union Act of 1840, and the British North America Act of 1867. But taken by themselves these documents may be called dull and lifeless. Professor Kennedy has brought them into contact with contemporary letters, despatches, speeches, and parliamentary debates, and has thus very skilfully imparted to them something of the vitality which surrounded them at their birth. The ipsissima verba of the men who helped to mould and administer them are placed in close connection with them. Each of the above periods is preceded by a short, but useful, Introduction. The documents are annotated and cross-referenced; and a distinguishing feature is a careful analytical Table of Contents, which enables the reader to obtain at a glance an adequate idea of the scope and contents of each document. For judges and lawyers the book will be very useful, and handy for reference, and to students it will be invaluable.

Canada has in her constitutional history illustrated every phase of British colonial government, first the military rule of a conquered country; then the Crown colony; then representative, but not responsible, government; then responsible government; and finally federal union under the Crown. Professor Kennedy makes this development unfold itself with dramatic interest. No other volume in existence provides such an adequate collection of material for its study. It bears witness to that scientific treatment of history for which, we believe, the department of which Professors Wrong and Kennedy are members, has acquired a reputation in the University of Toronto. We have no hesitation in saying that by it, Professor Kennedy has inscribed his name in Canada upon an everlasting

monument.

We have also received:

Canadian Official Record, published weekly by the Director of Public Information, to record the Activities of Various Departments of the Government, Commissions and Committees organized for War Purposes, under Authority of Council: Ottawa, October 5th, 1918.

The Labour Gazette. Published monthly by The Department of Labour, Canada, September, 1918: King's Printer, Ottawa.

Carnegie's Endowment for International Peace: Founded December 14th, 1910: Year Book, 1918, No. 7. Headquarters of the Endowment: 2 Jackson Place, Washington, D.C., United States of America.

This volume will be found to contain much of interest, especially to students of the economic and international aspects of the war.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

E. F. Beattie, K.C., Montreal, has been elected President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

The Toronto Monetary Times for October 11th contains the address recently delivered by Mr. Thomas Mulvey, K.C., Under-Secretary of State, before the Convention of the Dominion Association of Chartered Accountants of Montreal, in which he discussed with much learning and research Edwards v. Blackmore, noted supra, p. 668, and the history of company law in connection therewith.

Mr. John Edward Martin, K.C., has been appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench, Montreal, vice Judge Trenholme retired, and Mr. Justice Lamothe has been promoted to the position of Chief Justice.

Mr. James P. Blackwood, K.C., and L. Edward Emerson, B.L., have entered into partnership at St.

John, Nfld., under the firm name of Blackwood and Emerson. Mr. Emerson is a son of the late Mr. Justice Emerson, of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland. With Mr. Fred. R. Emerson, who has also started practice at St. John, he represents the fifth consecutive generation of the Emerson family of lawyers in that city.

Lieut.-Colonel R. M. Dennistoun has been appointed a judge of the Manitoba Court of Appeal.

The judges of the Supreme Court of Ontario have passed a rule permitting a twenty per cent. increase in fees. The new rule declares that owing to the increased cost of living and office expenses due to the present war it is ordered that until further notice the total in any bill of costs in respect of business done in the Supreme Court or any County Court shall be increased by twenty per cent. The increase is to be allowed upon any taxation of costs as well as between party and party and between party and client. The rule does not interfere with the power to allow a fixed sum for costs nor does it apply to counsel fees.

We regret to see the following deaths reported

since our last issue:-1

Alex. C. Shaw, Lanark County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace, at Perth, on October 24th, in his 62nd year.

Paul Emile Lamarche, K.C., of Montreal, Spanish influenza, at Montreal, on October 11th.

Francis Higgerty, of the firm of Chrysler

of

and

Ilin mail boat "Leinster" was torpedoed by a German Higgerty, barristers, Ottawa, drowned when the Dub submarine. He had gone overseas to take a commis sion in the Imperial Army.

Rodolphe Pepin, notary, at St. Celestin, in the

county of Nicolet, Quebec, on October 3rd.

'It is almost impossible to prevent occasional inaccuracies

obituary column of the C. L. T.

in the

Corrections will be always gratefully

received and duly recorded in our next issue.-Ed. C. L. T.

A correspondent, Mr. Frank Samuel, writing to the Times, recently made an original suggestion on the naturalization question, which we think should be I called to the attention of the Dominion Government. He said: 'As the law at present stands, there is, in substance, nothing intermediate between the grant of naturalization conferring full rights of citizenship and the status of aliens with its consequent disabilities. My suggestion, accordingly, is that there should be an intermediate stage between the two, to apply, in particular, to those now alien enemies. The legal machinery to provide for such intermediate or transition stage might, on the analogy of divorce procedure, be furnished by a grant of naturalization nisi, to mature after a number of years of proved good behaviour into naturalization absolute.' It would be a comfort to feel that such a plan would be adopted in future in the case of Austrians or Germans applying for naturalization. But we quite agree with our contemporary Law Notes, that the "nisi" should not be given any definite right to have his naturalization made "absolute" at the end of any definite time. That should be wholly in the discretion of the authorities.

The Federal and Provincial Conference which is now going on at Ottawa, is by no means the first of its kind. There have been several Conferences of a simi-.

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