This undertaking stands before the profession unrivaled. The field covered by this treatise is so extensive that to enumerate in full even its excellent table of contents would occupy more space than we can give it in this issue. The compilation contains forty-three chapters, all replete with valuable and indispensable information-in fact while called a work on title to real property, it is the best arranged work on practice we know of, as to the key it gives, and light it throws on all Code practice as it obtains in this State at this time. Chapters first, second and third throw light on all other practice. Chapter fourth is devoted to ections affecting the lands of infants-a field heretofore much complicated, but now divested of tangle and uncertainty by the luminous help of this work. Fifth. The procedure by which real estate is sold under execution and orders of sale. Six. Procedure under levy of execution. Seventh. Procedure when sold by executor or administrator. Eight Procedure when sold under attachment proceedings. And in all these proceedings giving all the Fɔrms incident thereto. Procedure in sales by guardians, in homesteads and exemptions; landlord and tenant, mortgages, and mechanic's liens, partition, sale by receiver, etc. etc., besides the great space devoted to Indian lands proper. The author, all through these volumes adopts the following plan: He cites you to our present statute, and where it has received a judicial construction that construction is given. If the statute came from another state, the identity is shown, and pursuant to the established American rule, the construction placed upon it there, is given us. For instance our main code practice came from Kansas, and of Kansas, came from Ohio. The construction placed upon it by these states is given, and thus a broad and well reasoned view is obtained. In treating of the Indian lands, treaties are minutely considered together with supplementary acts of Congress relative thereto, and the federal decisions upon the questions that have arisen. The labor bestowed on this work is vast and the results of its execution as near prefec

tion as human effort can attain. It is par excellence The Book for the veteran as well as the novice, for the Bench as well as the Bar.

EDITORIALS.

Is the Element of Revenge to Enter into Criminal Prosecutions?

The sprit of our institutions declares against it, and almost every lawyer will say that such a practice would be against public policy. The theory of American criminal law is that crime is an offense against society and that it must be prosecuted when committed by the State and not by private prosecution. Recently, however the attention of the profession has been call to the practice which is found often in every state of employing private counsel to assist prosecuting Attorneys to secur econviction of offenders; and this practice declared wronga practice that secures conviction not on the evidence adduced, but by reason of the influence and fee paid by private parties who have ill will towards the defendant and seek revenge. Of course in some instances the state prosecutor is inexperienced and almost unable to cope with the counsel of the defendant, and in such cases, society should be protected from having one guilty of atrocious crimes turned loose upon it; and in such cases the sound discretion of the trial judge should be permitted power to add assistance to the public prosecutor, but paid by the state. The purpose of this is to secure to to accused a fair and impartial trial. It is well known that when private counsel become enlisted in a prosecution, backed by money and pride of victory, the accused will have small chance, however fair the trial court may seek to be.

Hon. M. D. Libby of El Reno, one of the best known lawyers of the westside of the State, has been quite ill. However, at last report he was said to be improving.

The Law Students Helper contains the following intering selection from a recent Federal decision:

"Who are to be considered "white persons" within the act of Congress which limits the right of naturalization to those aliens being "free white persons and to aliens of African nativity and to African descent?" This question has arisen and is decided in Re Young, 198 Federal Reporter, 715. Applicant was born in Japan. His father is a German and his mother a Japanese. He wishes to become a citizen of the United States, claiming that he is a white person. The United States District Court W. D. Washington, N. D., holds that the term "white person" includes all European races and those Caucasians belonging to the races around the Mediterranean Sea, and that Japanese are not included. As to applicant being of mixed blood-German and Japanesethe court remarks: "In the abstractions of higher mathematics it may be plausibly said that the half of infinity is equal to the whole of infinity; but in the case of such a concrete thing as the person of a human being it cannot be said that one who is half white and half brown or yellow is a white person, as commonly understood." The petition for naturalization is denied.

LISTEN! Why should a lawyer from such a city as Muskogee where over two hundred copies of The Oklahoma Law Journal are received every month, or such cities as Tulsa, Sapulpa, or any of the larger cities of the westside where the Journal is uiversally taken and has been taken for eleven years, have occasionally some one who has our complete address, to write us: "Send me a sample of your Journal, as I "May" want to subscribe." Have you seen the Journal? You must, to get the exact address. Could you not have examined that copy? On the face of every one is the price-two dollars per year. And if you wanted it, send us your check for two dollars. On its receipt your name will be placed accurately on mailing list and you will receive it twelve months.

Among the lawyers we met this month on our personal visit to Mangum Oklahoma, special mention is due to Hon. B. L. Tisinger one of the leading lawyers of the westside who is doing an extensive and general practice; and to Hon, A. R. Garritt, the efficient county Attorney

of that jurisdiction. Both these gentlemen, by their intelligence and courtesy appeared to us as ideal representative members of a cultured and noble profession.

The Bar will feel under obligations to our State Reporter Hon. Howard Parker when it learns of the great labor he is bestowing upon the Session Laws. He is so arranging these laws, that there will be a caption to every topic to which the matter relates.

Hon. Charles M. Thacker of Mangum, has been appointed a member of the Supreme Court Commission of the State of Oklahoma.

We desire to call the attention of the many State Libraries, and the Libraries of Educational Institutions who are subscribers to The Oklahoma Law Journal to the unique opinion of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, written by Judge R. L. Williams, found on page 375, et seq. of this Issue, (April No.). The burden of the opinion is an exhaustive research as to the origin and legal effect of names. The extensiveness of the research, is perhaps unsurpassed of any of its kind in the English language. Judge Williams is not only a noted Judge, bu an author and first Chief Justice of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court.

HUMOR.

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The Canny Justice.-Thet's a derned fine-lookin' car of yourn, mister,' said the old man with the chin whiskers, as he inspected Dubbleigh's motor standing in front of the Eagle House at Togus.

"You bet it is," said Dubbleigh. "I came over here from Watkins' Corners this morning in just fifty-five minutes. Going some, eh?"

"Ya-as," said the old gentleman, stroking his whiskers thoughtfully. "Kin ye prove it?"

"I have five witnesses in my guests," said Dubbleigh. "Wa-al, I'll take yer word for it," said the stranger, Jest fork over twenty-five, and we'll call it square. I'm jestice o' the peace raound here, and it'll save time to settle this here vi'lation right now."

Law Students Helper.

Magistrate "Do you mean to say that such a physical wreck as he gave you that black eye?

"Sure, your honor, he wasn't a physical wreck till after he gave me the black eye." replied the complaining wife. Law Students Helper

The Lawyer's Equal. An old lady was called as a wit. ness. She was wide awake and not easily confused. At last the cross-examining lawyer, out of all patience, exclaimed, "madam, you have brass enough in your face to make 12-quart pail."-"Yes," she replied, "and you have enough impudence to fill it."

Half and Half.-An old darky accused of stealing a hog employed Colonel to defend him. The Colonel, who was highly respected by all in the community, and a leader in the church, told the darky to go home and be very careful to cut the hog exactly in half, cautioning him to bring to the Colonel's house just as much of the hog as he himself kept. At the trial the Colonel, pleading eloquently for the acquittal of his client, assured the jury that he knew that his client had no more of that hog in his house than he (the Colonel) had in his house. The darky was acquitted. Law Notes