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Death Of one joint beneficiary before tes-
tator-effect of Code, sec. 2j23, where de- |
ceased beneficiary leaves issue, 800. 2 |
Slaughter vs. Smither: Written contracts: |
ParOl evidence 10 vary or contradict, 81; |
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or contradict n written contract, JIG. |
Ill EdltOrial-Committee Of the State Bar
Association to report upon the Torrens
System, 49,; 'John Marshall Day" 3l9;
The West Virginia Supreme COurt-criu-
cism OF, in oveTruling previous decisions
establishing a rule OF property. 800; Ne
cessity OF alleging notice to grantee OF
fraud Of grantor, in bill to set aside con-
veyance. 32l Lapsed devises passing to
ISSUE under sec. 1923 Of COde-Liabllity
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". Notes Of Cases-False Pretences,
1913; Wills-Creditor-lcg 32s Actions
for personal liability-assignabillty 32S:
MISUNDERSTANDING against actions for
negligence 228; Game laws-game brought
from another State-interstate com
merce 1923; Pleading statute OF paroi
agreements, 1913; Judicial sales-ttle de-
pending on adverse possession, 32S; Lega-
cies-demonstrative and specific, 800; Ne
gotiable paper-premature action, 81;
Police power--liberty Of contract 800;
Master and servant-tort in course Of en-
ployment, 800; Municipal corporations
V. Miscellany-Unanimity Of jury, 33i;
Reports. etc, for sale by the State Il
brary. 334; Negotiable paper-defence OF
duress. 33l; Proposed John Il. Minor me-
mortal building, 33j; Attorneys at law
striking from rolls for unlawful use or
mails, 336; The preliminary training OF a
law student, 3I; Legislation recommend
ded by the state Bar Association for dis
barment OF attorneys for unprofessionGl
autr Il N m r
ried women i'm Virginia, 339: John Mar
shall Day proposition of Adolph Moses,
adopted by Illinois Bar Association. 81;
The Virginia State Bar AssQciation-re-
cent meeting at Hot Springs, S8.
VI Correspondence-Nenu of actions
against non-resldents-W. @. Mathews.
SAC.
VII Book Revlews-Hursts Annotated
Digest OF the Virginia Reports, vol. 3,
3lS; Guthries Lectures on the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States COnsu-
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Burdick on the Law of Partnership. SiJ;
Annotated Corporation Laws of all the
States. by Cumming, Gilbert, and Wood
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VIII. Books Received-35o.
che September No. Of the Pall-Mall
Magazine IS doubly welcome this month
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| CONTEMPORARY FRENCH NOVEL
/ lists. BY Rene Doumic. Authorized
translation by Mary d. Frost. New
York: ~ east Fourteenth street, Thomas
/ Y. Crowel & CO. Boston: 100 Purchase
! street
contemporary French Novelists' is a
collection OF NJ Doumic's critical and
/ biographical essays which have appeared
! from time to time during the past Few
years in certain French magazines ana
reviews. The names that the critic mas
treated are Octave Feuillet Edmond ana
Jules de Goncourt. Emile lola, AlphOnse
Daudet. Paul Bourget, Guy de Maupas-
/ SAINT. Pierre Lott. Edouard Rod, j. II.
]
and Rene Balm
NJ Doumic has done his work thorough
" and artisticaily, and contributed a real
addition TO his department Of French
literature His pen is ready one, ana II
Is backed by a keen eye, both for excel
lencies and defects a keen sense OF hu-
NOR. and a ready wit So, Contemporary
| French Novelsts" is a delightful surprise.
For certainly nowadays literary criticism
however valuable. is generally dreary
enough stuff 10 read.
Miss Frost is 20 be commended for her
part in the book Her translation Is very
! graceful. and the force of NJ. Doumic
style is admirably preserved in good
idiomatic English.
FOR sale by the publishers.
THE CARPETBAGGER. Novel. BY
Opie Read and Frank Pixley. other
stories by Opie Read. odd Loenezer,
"Nv Young Master" ION the Suwanee
river" "A Kentucky Colonel "A
tennessee Judge" THE Jucklins,"
ere ere Illustrated. Chicago: Laird
] a Lee, publishers.
Many plays have been made from no.
vels as the authors Of "The Carpetbag-
ger" remark in their preface, but II Is
| cnrnparaticely seldom that novel Is
mad, from play. The Carpetbagger
Is such "A noyel--a kind Of Lambs Tales
up 10 date-Opie Reads Tales from Ople
Read No /. THE Carpetbagger''
The collaboratOIs have made success
Of their work as q very readable book
although the bones OF the skeleton come
/ dv rattle sometimes quite distinctly
through It's new flesh. The incidents OF
the story are improbable, even for recon
struction times. The characters are aD-
solutely impossible for any time what