Book Reviews

These two volumes, published simultaneously in the fall of 1912, are the first fruits of the labor of the committee which 'has been working since 19o9 to make available to American lawyers the 'works of the best legal historians of Continental Europe. The Series is to contain' a volume on the "History of Germanic Private Law," one on "Italian Law," one on "French Public Law," one on each of the subjects,-"Continental -Criminal Procedure," "Continental Criminal Law," "Continental Civil Procedure," and "Continental- Commercial Law," with a concluding volume on the "Evolution of Law in, Europe," and an extra volume (to be published as Volume II of the Series) on "The Great -Jurists of the World, -from Papinian to Von Ihering." The Series extends over a field not before covered in English nor in any continental language and gives in translation the 'works of the most eminent European specialists on the subjects treated.