STATUTES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. By Theodore
F. T. Plucknett. (Cambridge University Press. 20s. net.)—The two Cambridgeg are pleasantly connected by the fact that Mr. Plucknett dates rom Harvard the preface to a book which originated as a dis- sertation for a Cambridge degree. This adm irable monograph is the second volume in the series of " Cambridge Studies in English Legal History," edited by the Downing Professor. It deals with the study of statutes and their interpretation in the time of the first three Edwards, and is based on a thorough examination of the Year Books from 1292 to 1847. The subject is too technical for detailed criticism in our columns, but we may congratulate Mr. Plucknett on making a valuable addition to our knowledge of mediaeval legal methods, and may add that the scholarly quality of his work is creditable to both the great Universities with which it is associated.
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