Reviews of Books in a general way the principles involved in the regulation of public service utilities by means of taxation, rate regulatiompublic service commissions, the referendum, and municipal ownership." The work is to be issued in two volumes of which the one under consideration is the first. It includes the preliminary discussion of fundamental principles and illustrative chapters on electric light, telephone, tele graph, signal, electrical conduit, water, sewer. heating, refrigerating, pneumatic tube, pipe-line and gas franchises, all treated in a highly technical and exhaustive but at the same time interesting manner. Dr. Wilcox aims primarily to present an analysis of facts and conditions in such a form as to be available for the use of officials having the responsibility of granting franchises or enforcing franchise contracts, of special students of public affairs. and of citizens who, individually or through serni~public organiza tions, are endeavoring to bring intelligence to bear in a practical way on the governmental problems of their home cities; but he insists that his efiorts can be of use only to such persons, whether in official or private life, as are, in good faith. seeking light upon this most complex problem, and will approach it not from the standpoint of personal or private interests, but from that of the public good. CORPORATION MANUAL FOR 1910 The Corporation Manual: Statutory Provisions Relating to the Organization, Management, Regu lation and Taxation of Domestic Business Corpora tions, and to the Admission, Regulation and Taxation of Foreign Corporations in the several States and Territories of the United States, arranged under a uniform classification; Corporation Laws of Alaska, Philippine Islands and Porto Rico, Federal Statutes afiecting Business Corporations, and Digest of Business Corporation Laws of Mexico; and Cyclopedia of Corporation Forms and Pre cedents. Edited by john S. Parker, of the New York bar. 16th edition. Corporation Manual Company, New York. Pp. xvi, 1904. ($6.50 net.)
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issuing the sixteenth edition of this valuable compilation, it is the purpose to include the amendments in the corporation laws relating to business corporations that have been enacted at the sessions of the legislatures of the various states and territories since the fifteenth edition, and, at the same
time the editors have taken the opportunity to revise and rewrite the entire subject matter for several of the states. The enlarge ment occasioned by these changes has made
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it necessary to omit from this edition the corporation laws of the Dominion of Canada and the several Canadian provinces which have heretofore been included; but to make up for this omission, the federal statutes aflect
ing business corporations have been inserted, including the anti-trust law, interstate com
merce law, and the corporation tax law and regulations. As in previous editions the matter for each of the states is grouped under a uniform classifimtion, and wherever practicable the full text of the statute provision is given under the appropriate heading of the classifia tion. Thus the volume contains the statutory corporation laws of all the states in available form, a feature which will be greatly appre ciated by the busy practising lawyer, who wishes to segregate the homogeneous statutory provisions of all the jurisdictions in the country in order to examine the authorities in those having cases directly in point. The editor-in-chief is Mr. John S. Parker, of the New York bar, and his assistants on the editorial board are Messrs. Franklin A. Wagner, George Tumpson and Frederick W. Keasbey, and there is an associate editor
for each state. While primarily intended for the practical use of lawyers, this compilation will also be found a valuable reference aid by all who are interested in the study of modern in dustrial conditions. A somewhat full discussion of the license tax system of Louisiana is embodied in the paper of W. 0. Hart, Esq.. of the New Orleans bar, a member of the Louisiana Tax Commission, now issued in a pamphlet of about ninety pages. Mr. Hart read this paper at the Third International Conference on State and Local Taxation at Louis ville last September. He traces historically the license tax system as set forth in constitutional provisions, in statutes, and in the decisions of the state Supreme Court.
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acknowledged:— State Bur Association of Connecticut; Annual Report. 1910. Edited by James E. Wheeler, New Haven, secretary. Pp. 126. New York State Bar Association; Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting, held at Rochester January 18, 20, 21, 1910. The Argus Company, Albany. Pp. vi, 910. Report of Atlantic City Conference on Workmen's Compensation Acts, held at Atlantic City, N. J., July 29-31, 1909. H. V. Mercer. secretary, Minne apolis, Minn. Pp. 3l9+index 14. (Paper, 50 cts.)
