THE MENACE OF THE MOB by Dmitri Merejkovski American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (FEBRUARY, 1922), p.

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Ameri People v. Barltz, 180 Northeastern, 423?12 can Law Reports, page 520. The question is also dis cussed in the notes to People v. Barltz in theAmerican 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. act it was so expressly In addition to theWisconsin in this last New year Jersey (299), Arkansas provided, (6), Tennessee (95), and Massa (59), Vermont chusetts (449). however, recognizes Massachusetts, 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 Social, Congress. racial, economic conditions vary in the sections of this continent, so different greatly 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
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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 the menace of the mob. By Dmitri Mere citizen thus: "The American people and their Gov Nicholas L. Brown, New York. jkovski. ernment are not two separate and distinct entities, but This book is a reprint of three essays written some a composite one. No model state can exist in practice years ago. Of the first,whose title names the book, until its virtues are realized in the lives of the majority the introduction says: "It is little short of astonishing Such citizens will strive to educate of its citizens. to see how many of the warnings in the Menace of the themselves politically. They will study the current Mob have come true. There is scarce a line where a They will seek to under problems of government. pin would not prick upon a prophecy fulfilled. And stand the workings of political parties and will en were we to use it as a volume for sortes?there is scarce deavor to make their influence felt in the councils of a line that is not pregnant with what . . . the party of their choice and if such citizens fore-warnings still more dire." Speaking of Russia before the Rev aspire to office themselves, their strongest motive will be the opportunity and privilege of rendering a full olution the author says: "The hungry proletariat and the satiated bourgeois have different economical in measure of honest endeavor to promote the welfare but their metaphysics and religion are the same terest, of the Republik' ?the metaphysics of a sober common sence, a religion OF THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES LAW. By of sober bourgeois repletion." This identity of phil Ernest Arthur Jelf. Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., Lon osophy and religion the author conceives to be natural and Canadian don. American agents, the Carswell istic positivism. The author points Russia's way out Toronto. Company, of her difficulties thus: "Neither religion without This is the second edition of a little book, the prin nor sociality with religion, but only a re sociality, cipal interest of which is the choice of the cases rather Christ Come ligious sociality will save Russia?from than the discussion of them. Its fifteen chapters begin to the Coming Christ." The following statement of with Ashby v. White and end with Allen v. Flood. the introduction is well within the facts: "The reader These chapters are papers which appeared in the Law of these essays cannot but perceive Merejkovski's some two decades ago. They are very well Times supreme and unerring insight into the Russian heart written and of more than usual interest. and mind. All the books written about Russia by out siders cannot tell one jot as much as [his] self credit and collections. By Richard P. Ettinger analytical study in contrast." and David Golieb. New York University School of INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE AND EFFICIENCY. In Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Prentice-Hall, By H. M. Late of Fellow Vernon, Magdalene corporated. College, Oxford. and Sons, Ltd. Seventy of this book's three hundred and ninety George Routledge This book contains a complete and careful state pages deal with all of the legal remedies of a creditor. The treatment is necessarily superficial. The heart of ment of the present state of our knowledge concerning

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.

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