FRANK'S BANKRUPT LAW, SECOND EDITION. Annotated Bankrupt Law: The Bankrupt Act of 1898, as Amended by the Act of 1903, together with General Orders in Bankruptcy and Forms, with Citation of Authorities Applicable to its Provisions. Compiled, with full Index, by NATHAN FRANK, of the St. Louis Bar, Compiler of "Annotated Bankrupt Law of 1867." Assisted by DAVID W. VOYLES, of the St. Louis Bar. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1903.

This is the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 with its recent amendments and with the General Orders and Forms in Bankruptcy, annotated by references to all the decisions applicable to the same. The amendments of 1903 have been inserted in their appropriate places so as to present the text of the law as it now stands in a symmetrical shape. It has what seems to be a good index.

The author is the compiler of the Bankruptcy Law of 1867, as amended by the act of 1874, and the plan pursued in this work follows the plan of that work. The author is a lawyer of distinction, has been a member of Congress, is a practitioner of large and long experience in bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, and this experience works no doubt to the advantage of the present work.

COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY, 4TH EDITION. -The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898, as Amended by the Act of February 5, 1903, by WILLIAM H. HOTCHKISS, Referee in Bankruptcy at Buffalo, N. Y., and Lecturer on the Law of Bankruptcy in the Buffalo Law School. Albany, N. Y.: Matthew Bender. 1903.

Mr. Eaton, the author of the third edition, having died, the choice of a successor became necessary, and it fell upon Mr. Hotchkiss. He has presented substantially a new work. It contains the late amendments and the General Orders in Bankruptcy, established and promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States. He has cut out some of the padding which existed in the previous edition, but the book is still a very large one. He has given a large number of useful forms, so that where the Official Forms do not fit the law or the General Orders, these new forms, though in no sense official, are offered as substitutes. These, it is believed, will greatly enhance the value of the work. The writer expresses the opinion in his preface that the bankruptcy law has come to stay, but he admits that it would have been repealed but for the late amendments; and accordingly he gives credit to WILLIAM A. PRENDERGAST, of New York, Secretary of the National Association of Credit Men, for his untiring work in securing the enactment of the late amendments. We doubt whether the bankruptcy law has come to stay. It is the fate of such legislation that it always gathers round itself an increasing number of enemies. Every bankruptcy is attended with a loss to a large number of creditors; and, roughly speaking, every such creditor becomes an enemy of the system through which he thinks he has suffered the loss.

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Taentury preceding the foundation **h is coeval with the first certary of rotide for great legal reforms. Tacy were r marized by the Supreme Court of the United St ce in sust.oning as valid under the Fourteenth A State statute regulating the hours of hor. Thus we entmeratet f'e sin plification of legal procedure by the elimhedion ef the whole fabric of specral pleading, the abolition of the exelusionare rules of evidence, the sweeping away of the ancient teni. 2. of real estate, the abolition of imprisonment for debt a: 1 Lancipation of married women.

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