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relations properly and to administer his charge with due regard to 

 legal requirements. 



Such courses are now in existence and more or less suitable 

 textbooks have been prepared for them, like Huffcut's Elements of 

 Business Law and Stevens' Elements of Mercantile Law. These 

 volumes deal with the subject of business law in general. It was 

 needful to have a book making special reference to the laws governing 

 specifically the subjects with which the forester has to deal. The 

 present volume, just from the press, fills this want. One would have 

 expected that such a book would be written by a lawyer instead of 

 a forester, but Mr. Kinney is not only a forester (M. F.), but has 

 also the title LL.B., hence is particularly well equipped to undertake 

 the task. It would take a similarly equipped person to review the 

 book critically, and we hope to secure such a review later, but the 

 importance of this unique addition to our American forestry literature 

 made it desirable to give at least a full book notice at once. 



No one who even glances through the volume can help being im- 

 pressed with the thorough and painstaking manner in which the com- 

 pilation has been done, citation of authorities, and of cases supporting 

 every point made. 



A very full table of contents and an index facilitates the use of 

 the book. 



Such a compilation does not call for much originality except in 

 organizing the material and presenting it under logical arrangement. 

 This has been well done in the eighteen chapters into which the book 

 is divided. 



The first two chapters define and classify general property con- 

 ditions, specifying in the third chapter property in trees and timber. 

 In this chapter the author might have taken it upon himself to point 

 out where to improve existing nomenclature, for even judges might 

 be taught better use of language. 



The doctrine of waste is elucidated in three chapters; timber tres- 

 pass in three chapters. Contracts referring to timber receive three 

 chapters, taking care to quote the laws prevailing in the dififerent 

 States. Inspection and measurement of timber products are treated 

 on twelve pages ; the law referring to river driving on thirty pages. 

 A chapter is given to the discussion of mortgages on timber; one on 

 the law of boundary and highway trees ; another to fixtures, as saw- 

 mills and nursery equipment; and the last chapter discusses the free 

 use on public timberlands. 



