Harvard Law R eview. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER. Editorial Board. Oliver Prescoit, Jr., Editor-in-Chief. Philip S. Abbot, Treasurer, Richmond O. Aulick, Albert S. Bard, Albert E. Hadlock, Norman Hapgood, Henry Hudson, Carleton Hunneman, J. Wright Hunt, Frederick B. Jacobs, M. Day Kimball, James G. King, James M. Newell, Philip Wardner, Charles Warren, George E. Wright. Harvard Law School — New Case Books. — It will interest the members of this and other law schools to know that a volume of " Cases on Evidence " will be published by Professor Thayer next summer. The need of such a volume has long been felt by the members of this school, and its publication will be greatly appreciated, not only by future second year classes, but by those who have already taken the course on evidence, and who desire to preserve the leading cases in a convenient form. It also gives the Review much pleasure to note the appearance of the sixth and last volume of Professor Gray's "Cases on Property," thus completing a series which, in its comprehensiveness, judicious arrangement and selection, and general adequacy for the purposes of instruction under the case system, is susceptible of little improve- ment The members of this school have indeed cause for gratitude to Professor Gray, who, at the expense of an untold amount of labor, thought, and time, has so materially lightened the work and the difficulties of those who have had the privilege of studying under his guidance. Boston University Law School — Case System Adopted — Our readers will be interested to know that the faculty of the Boston University Law School is about to introduce into the school the system of study known as the case system. The first topic to be treated in this way will be Bills and Notes, and gradually the new method will be extended to other subjects. The plan of work will be as follows : The class will be divided into two divisions, each of which is to con- tain three sections. A member of each section will act as leader to superintend the work of his companions. Each section will be given a different subject as far as possible, in order to avoid an over- demand for the books. Cnce a week each section will meet to discuss the cases read. The leader will preside and conduct the discussion. The professors from time to time are to call the whole class together for recitation on the cases. In this way the students are afforded even better opportunities for discussion than are attainable when the whole
