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Current Legal Literature 107

People v. Barltz, 180 Northeastern, 423?12 Ameri can Law Reports, page 520. The question is also dis cussed in the notes to People v. Barltz in the American Law Reports, Columbia Law Review, vol. 21, page 712, Penn. Law Review, vol. 70, page 30; Case and Com ment, vol. 27, page 136.]

Whatever may be the opinion in respect to the

duty or the right of sitting upon a jury the political equality of women undoubtedly implies equality in the

right to hold office. This has been generally admitted. In addition to the Wisconsin act it was so expressly provided, this last year in New Jersey (299), Arkansas

(59), Vermont (6), Tennessee (95), and Massa chusetts (449). Massachusetts, however, recognizes a difference in value for various positions based on sex

by expressly permitting "any officer to request male

employees" for certain positions and authorizing the Civil Service Commission to recognize any special qualification of sex so stated in a requisition.

Whatever may be the opinion as to the advisa

bility of a blanket bill in the states, the differences in the several states in respect to the property and personal rights of women, such as the varying dower systems as contrasted with the community property system in the west, make it evident that the burden of legislating to secure equality for women should not be put on

Congress. Social, racial, economic conditions vary greatly in the different sections of this continent, so that where a national issue is not involved, it is surely

wiser to allow local communities to adjust their own social institutions to their own ideas of their own needs.

CURRENT LEGAL LITERATURE

A Guide to Recent Books in Law and in Neighboring fields and to Current Legal Periodicals

Among Recent Books

AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEIR GOVERNMENT. By Kenneth Colegrove, Associate Professor of Political

Science, Northwestern University. The Abingdon Press.

This is a non-technical description of the Ameri can Government in operation. By a happy blending of history, political science, and law, the author has drawn a very illuminating picture which has its timely uses. He closes his discussion of the model American citizen thus: "The American people and their Gov ernment are not two separate and distinct entities, but a composite one. No model state can exist in practice until its virtues are realized in the lives of the majority of its citizens. Such citizens will strive to educate themselves politically. They will study the current

problems of government. They will seek to under stand the workings of political parties and will en deavor to make their influence felt in the councils of the party of their choice . . . and if such citizens

aspire to office themselves, their strongest motive will be the opportunity and privilege of rendering a full measure of honest endeavor to promote the welfare of the Republik'

FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE LAW. By Ernest Arthur Jelf. Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., Lon don. American and Canadian agents, the Carswell Company, Toronto.

This is the second edition of a little book, the prin cipal interest of which is the choice of the cases rather than the discussion of them. Its fifteen chapters begin with Ashby v. White and end with Allen v. Flood. These chapters are papers which appeared in the Law Times some two decades ago. They are very well written and of more than usual interest.

credit and collections. By Richard P. Ettinger and David Golieb. New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Prentice-Hall, In

corporated.

Seventy of this book's three hundred and ninety pages deal with all of the legal remedies of a creditor. The treatment is necessarily superficial. The heart of

the book is its two hundred and fifty pages treating the principles and practices of credit management, the credit man being thought of as a credit engineer op erating the forms and machinery of credit. This part bristles with stimulating glimpses of sound business

management and is full of practical material for those who must decide to whom credit shall be extended. The book closes with a description and an evaluation of credit insurance which are very informing.

the menace of the mob. By Dmitri Mere jkovski. Nicholas L. Brown, New York.

This book is a reprint of three essays written some

years ago. Of the first, whose title names the book, the introduction says: "It is little short of astonishing to see how many of the warnings in the Menace of the

Mob have come true. There is scarce a line where a

pin would not prick upon a prophecy fulfilled. And were we to use it as a volume for sortes?there is scarce a line that is not pregnant with what fore-warnings still more dire." Speaking of Russia before the Rev olution the author says: "The hungry proletariat and the satiated bourgeois have different economical in terest, but their metaphysics and religion are the same

?the metaphysics of a sober common sence, a religion of sober bourgeois repletion." This identity of phil osophy and religion the author conceives to be natural istic positivism. The author points Russia's way out of her difficulties thus: "Neither religion without sociality, nor sociality with religion, but only a re ligious sociality will save Russia?from Christ Come to the Coming Christ." The following statement of the introduction is well within the facts: "The reader of these essays cannot but perceive Merejkovski's supreme and unerring insight into the Russian heart and mind. All the books written about Russia by out siders cannot tell one jot as much as [his] self analytical study in contrast."

INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE AND EFFICIENCY. By H. M. Vernon, Late Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford. George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.

This book contains a complete and careful state ment of the present state of our knowledge concerning

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