To Brewer Chapter we wish to extend our thanks for the interest shown in our behalf; and to the other chapters of Phi Delta Phi we extend many thanks for taking us into the list of the many universities of the country.

Since our installation we have proceeded to do the work set out by our older chapters, have taken rooms for our meetings, and studying rooms, and on October 26th we will hold our first initiation taking in nine new members of the law school, many of the former members of the Lord Mansfield Club and five members of our Law faculty as honorary members. Being a new chapter we would gladly receive suggestions and plans from the older members and hope to make this chapter one that the other chapters may look to as one trying to fulfill the ideals and hopes of Phi Delta Phi.

DENVER, COLO., October 21, 1907.

WAITE.

F. L. M.

This season of the year is hardly prolific of interesting material for a chapter letter. This fall Waite Chapter has assembled twenty-two of its old members. Bro. Bowman, '09, is recovering from a severe attack of typhoid and will not return until after Christmas. Bro. Kochersperger, '09, who left last year on account of illness, has entered the Harvard Law School. Bro. Angell, '08, who affiliated last year from Harlan, has started active practice with Bro. Babcock, '07, in Ketchikan, Alaska.

A suggestion in a recent number of the BRIEF has been approved by the chapter and it has been decided to send two circular letters annually to the graduates for the purpose of continuing their interest in and their association with the active chapter.

The system of moot court trials, which is the serious work of the year, will be renewed after the fall initiation, which takes place the latter part of November.

Our representation on the honor rolls of the Law School, on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal, in university athletics and in other activities is as usual very strong and the auguries are favorable for another successful year. H. T. S.

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 21, '07.

ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

At Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, preparations are making to petition for a charter. If the men are on a par with those of Minor Chapter, the Fraternity will be strengthened by this further advance into the South. The matter is called to the attention of Province Chief Lee Douglas of the new Malone Chapter at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and the officers of Minor Chapter, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., with whom the applicants should communicate.

ALUMNI NOTES.

Robert W. Wells, Marshall and Green, on September 25, married Miss Jessie Rayner Bevan, niece of Senator Rayner of Maryland; Julien Gunn, Minor, has been elected Commonwealth's Attorney of Henrico County, Vir

ginia, on a reform ticket; A. M. Dobie, Minor, has been added to the law faculty of the University of Virginia; Henry Blodgett, Cooley, has been appointed U. S. District Attorney at St. Louis; Phillips W. Moss, Cooley, was elected Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis.

CHICAGO PHI DELTA PHI CLUB.

In order that the Fraternity may realize that Chicago Alumnus Chapter of Phi Delta Phi is fulfilling its mission and is very much alive, I shall attempt to give a brief sketch of the work accomplished in the last year.

Immediately after the annual banquet and election held at the Hamilton Club, March 15, 1906, it was resolved by the new officers that everything possible was to be done to arouse enthusiasm among the large membership of the Chapter and place the Chapter on a business basis. The president, pursuant to a resolution passed at the annual meeting, at once appointed a committee of seven for that purpose. The membership list was completely gone over and revised, and letters mailed to the four hundred and fifty members, enclosing registration cards to be filled out and returned, and requesting that each member pay an annual fee of $1.00 to defray the incidental expenses of the Chapter. Many responded and a working balance in the treasury was secured. Further letters were later sent to those who had failed to respond to the first. In order that the members be brought closer together a series of informal suppers was planned. The first was a smoker with a buffet supper, given at the Hamilton Club on June 26, and considering the season it was well attended and proved very enjoyable. Considerable time and consideration was given to the question of whether or not the Chapter should undertake to see that the candidates for the new Municipal Court were qualified in every way for the office to which they aspired, but in view of the comprehensive work being done along the same line by the Chicago Bar Association it was finally determined not to pursue the matter further as a body, although many members of the Chapter ably assisted in the election of able judges by efficient work personally.

The Chapter was exceedingly well represented among the candidates for various offices filled at the election last November, there being thirteen of its members among the nominees for judicial, legislative and executive offices. Of these nine were elected. The officers of the Chapter deemed it appropriate that a dinner be given in honor of these thirteen men who had honored the Chapter. The dinner was well attended and many pleaaant and interesting responses given by those called on by the toast master. Many members were in attendance who had not attended a meeting of the fraternity in years.

Plans are under way for the issuance of a catalogue giving the complete membership of and much desirable information concerning the Chapter. Invitations for the annual banquet are about to be issued and it is hoped and confidently expected that the attendance this year will be a record breaker. HOWARD P. CASTLE

CHICAGO.

BOOK REVIEWS.

LAW LATIN. By E. H. Jackson. 8vo, pp. 1–236. Buckram. John Byrne & Co., Washington, D. C.

This is a handy book of translations of the greater number of maxims, with reference to their origin and citations to the institutes, etc. The more important maxims are discussed briefly. It is arranged a little too much like a text-book, or even a grammar school book, the first hundred pages being divided into lessons on the declensions, conjugations, etc., neither useful to infants nor interesting to men. But apart from this, the little volume is entirely commendable. Its arrangement after the school book model makes it easy to find what you want, and the vocabulary at the end is probably not amiss when we all forget the more unusual Latin wards so soon after doffing our caps and gowns. It should be of great value to those without college education.

FORMS OF COMMON LAW DECLARATIONS.

By George C. Gregory. 8vo, pp.
Albany, N. Y.

For use in State and Federal Courts. 1-226. Sheep, $1. J. B. Lyon Co.,

Among the several more bulky form books containing common law declarations, none that we recall is quite so adequate for all purposes as this by Mr. Gregory of the Virginia bar. An amusing feature, doubtless unintentional, is its beginning with a declaration by an infant by next friend, continuing through life and concluding with one by an administrator. This will serve, however, to point the completeness of the volume. Unlike many of the older works, it is up to date, and includes declarations upon states of fact only of modern occurrence. Under each declaration are given citations in support, with occasionally a caution to the pleader. Fully indexed, and not too large, and with wide enough margins for memoranda, it is a handy work to have on the desk.

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. By J. Allen Smith, LL.B., Ph.D. 12m0, pp. xv+409. Cloth, $1.25. The Macmillan Company, New York. This volume, by Professor Smith of the Department of Political Science of the University of Washington, is the latest issue of the "Citizen's Library" series. It consists of a study of the Constitution, its origin, influence and relation to democracy. The author, pointing out that political writers generally have passed over the undemocratic features of the Constitution, remarks: "It is to call attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent opposition to democracy, the obstacles which it has placed in the way of majority rule, that this volume has been written."

Starting with the English government of the eighteenth century and the American Revolutionary government, Professor Smith describes the reactionary character of the Constitution, giving a chapter to the significance of the

amendment feature. He deals with the Federal judiciary and the checks and balances of the Constitution, together with the influence of the latter upon political institutions. There are chapters on the Party System, Municipal Government, Democracy of the Future and other topics.

The author finds in the frequent unearthing of graft and political robbery not a greater tendency to evil in politics but an awakened public conscience and the result of the light of publicity being thrown upon city halls and state capitols.

BROWN OF HARVARD. By Rida Johnson Young and Gilbert P. Coleman. Illustrated. 8mo, pp. 1–319. Cloth, $1.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. It is a difficult matter to write a good novel of college and school life. Many attempts have been made and many failures have resulted. Tom Brown's School Days and Tom Brown at Oxford stand in a class by themselves often imitated but never approached in excellence or truthfulness, except by Verdant Green.

Brown of Harvard is not a convincing novel of college life. Instead of the play of the same name being a dramatization of the book, we suggest that the book is a novelization of the play; that is, characters, scenes and events capable of dramatic handling and taken from the college world make up the play and are written up to form the book. That does not mean that the authors have not in places caught the spirit of college days, have not given clever passages of wit and repartee of the typical college kind. The story deals with the "fast set" at Harvard; but, in the opinion of the reviewer, the situations and characters belong rather to stageland than collegeland. Nevertheless, it is a brisk and stirring novel, full of surprising incidents and holds the reader's attention to the end.

THE LAW OF RAILROAD RATE LEGISLAT'On, with special reference to American Legislation. By Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., and Bruce Wyman. 8vo, pp. lii +1285. Buckram, $6.00. William J. Nagel, Boston.

The passage of the Federal Railroad Act of 1906, which prompted the authors to write this volume, has made it a very important one. Few lawyers or citizens realize the power of railroads to make or unmake a town or section of the country through change of rates. It is therefore highly proper as it has been recognized from the first that the state in its capacity of protector of her citizens should guard defenceless interest against the encroachments of powerful railroad corporations, or, to quote the authors: "Great power brings as its consequence the need of control of that power for the good of the whole people."

There are two ways to meet the situation-governmental control of rates and practices, and, in the alternative, government ownership. Believing that the former is preferable and realizing that the duty to solve the complex questions of railroad laws and regulation will devolve upon lawyers, the authors have written this volume to prepare the legal profession for their new work. In conformity with that idea, they have done more than discuss government regulation. They have first set forth the primary obligations of those in public employments, making the first book a practical and concise exposition of the principles of common carriers as far as railroads are concerned.

Book II. deals with the Regulation of Rates at common law, and Book III. with Regulation by Legislation. The full text of the present Interstate Commerce Act with the decisions of the Commission and the Courts, and also certain portions of the State acts are given. To the end that the volume may be a guide to practice as well, the appendix contains Rules of Practice before the Commission as well as approved Forms.

Professor Beale and Assistant Professor Wyman, of the Harvard Law School, have embodied in "Railroad Rate Regulation" the result of years of study and research. Appearing at a time when the subject of railroads and rates is so vital, we believe the volume will be of great use to the profession.

AMERICAN ADVOCACY, based on the Treatise by Richard Harris. Enlarged, Revised and Americanized by Alexander H. Robbins. 8vo, xiv + 295. Cloth, $2.50. Central Law Journal Co., St. Louis.

Mr. Robbins, who is the editor of the Central Law Journal, by way of introduction, wisely says: "The profession of law sustains the most personal relation to the individual all professional or business relations of life. The supreme characteristic of a great lawyer, therefore, is not so much an expansion of the brain as an enlargement of the heart, a wide and generous sympathy, a nervous system carefully attuned to all the passions and prejudices in life, a man that not only knows human nature, but has an appreciable quantity of human nature in him; a man, indeed, whom, when his client seeks advice, he finds not merely a cold-blooded jurist, a profound oracle of the law, but a man strong in his sympathies and full of resources for evading or escaping difficulty; resources that come not altogether from law books, but from the book of experience, which he has so diligently studied, both in his own life and the life of others. . . . Such is the truly great lawyer, as distinguished from the jurist. The qualifications that go to make up his success cannot be learned out of the text-books of the law-they come only to the man who flirts with human nature; who experiences, as far as possible, all the passions of the heart and all the hopes, pleasures and disappointments of life."

The author has carefully gone over the English work of Mr. Harris and cut out all portions dealing only with English practice, rearranging the balance more logically. To this ground work have been added four new chapters dealing with Office Work and Preparation for Trial; Briefs, Arguments and Methods of Speaking; Legal Ethics; Ethics-Compensation and Advertising. The whole was then reviewed, expressions changed and interpolations made in order that American Advocacy might be a strong assistant to every lawyer, young or old.

We believe the bar will find the new edition full of valuable suggestions and information and that to the young practitioner it will disclose a mine of wealth.

THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS. Edited by William Jennings Bryan and Francis W. Halsey. 16mo, ten volumes. Cloth. By subscription only. Funk and Wawnalls, New York.

Mr. Bryan, in his Introduction, asserts: "The age of oratory has not passed, nor will it pass. The press, instead of displacing the orator, has given