Index to Periodicals Of a lawyer like Mr. Judson nothing but a luminous discussion of any subject requiring a knowledge of consti tutional law could be expected. The work is admirably arranged, and rulings not easily accessible but of value as precedents are cited for the purpose of illustrating the law as administered by the Commission. The treatment of federal sovereignty in interstate com merce, concurrent and exclusive powers, business combinations, labor combina tions, and federal control of state regulation of railways engaged in inter state traffic is lucid and authoritative. The various federal statutes are pre
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sented in convenient form with the annotations of the author. BOOKS RECEIVED The Inheritance Tax Law; containing all Ameri can decisions and existing statutes. By Arthur W. Blakemore of the Boston bar, author of Massa chusetts Court Rules Annotated, and "Wills" in the Cyclopaedia of Law and Procedure, etc., and Hugh Bancroft, formerly District Attorney, north ern district of Massachusetts, author of Inheri tance Taxes for Investors. Boston Book Co., Boston. Pp. 1280 + 96 (tables, index). A Hoosier Village: A Sociological Study, with special reference to Social Causation. By Newell LeRoy Sims. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, v. 46, no. 4 (whole number 117). Columbia University; Long mans. Green & Co., New York, and P. S. King & son, London, agents. Pp. 181. ($1.50, paper covers.)
Index to Periodicals Articles on Topics of Legal Science and Related Subjects Attachments. "When and in What Cases will Statutes Providing Attachment Proceedings Be Available in Support of Actions Ex Delicto." By Walter J. Lotz. 74 Central Law Journal 399 (May 31). "Non-Residence as a Ground for Attach ment." 1 Bench & Bar N. S. 64 (June). Compulsory Condemnation. See Eminent Domain. Constitutional Law. See under special subjects, especially Government. Contracts. "Replacement in the Market." By A. G. Sedgwick. 12 Columbia Law Review 519 (June). Copyright. "Advantages and Defects of the Copyright Act, 1911." By G. Herbert Thring. Fortnightly Review, v. 91, p. 1132 Describing the British legislation of the past year, which in the main follows the program adopted by the Berlin Convention of 1S08, dis pensing, for example, with the formalities of registration, and otherwise aiding the author. The pressure of trade interests, however, has resulted in some restriction of the author's rights, particularly in the case of musical composers.
Corporations. "Piercing the Veil of Cor porate Entity." By I. Maurice Wormser. 12 Columbia Law Review 496 (June). Various cases are reviewed for the purpose of showing under what conditions the concept of corporate entity shall be ignored and "the veil drawn aside." By way of summary: "When the conception of corporate entity is employed to defraud creditors, to evade an existing ob ligation, to circumvent a statute, to achieve or perpetuate monopoly, or to protect knavery or crime, the courts will draw aside the web of entity, will regard the corporate company as an association of live, up-and-doing men and women shareholders, and will do justice between real persons. This is particularly true in courts of equity, but finds many illustrations in courts of law as well." "The Government and the Corporations." By Francis Lynde Stetson. Atlantic, v. 110, p. 27 (July). "We may sum up the whole matter, and may answer the inquiry as to the proper relation of the government to the corporation, in our con clusion that not necessarily as creator or patron, but in the old sense of visitor, the appropriate government should provide for the great cor porations, as businesses, suitable supervision and administrative regulation to forfend public
