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ROME THE LAW-GIVER. By Professor J. Declareuil. Translated from the

French. (Kegan Paul. 16s.)-Just the merest note must suffice to announce the appearance of an important book. A distinguished French jurist has set himself to work to describe the sources and formation of Roman law ; the establishment of a scheme in which, hile the individual is left free, his individual rights are controlled in accordance with the requirements of social oiler ; and finally the loss of equilibrium involved by the establishment of State Socialism, or Despotism, in which the ow exaggerated rights of the individual disappeared. There s much in this volume which invites the attention of the odem legislator.