The Modern Science of Criminology‘ HE publication of two important series of translations of European treatises in this country has been begun, and when these series are complete the
legal learning of the Continent will for the first time be in a fair way to become a permanent and indispensable element of the education of the American lawyer.
Series, is issued by the Committee on Translations of the American Institute
of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the three volumes here noticed are to be followed by others by Saleilles, Ferri. Tarde, burg. Bouger, In bothGarofalo cases the and attempt Aschalienis
One of these sets of books is that known
to set before the American reader the best specimens of contemporary Con
as the Modern Legal Philosophy Series,
tinental
edited by a committee of the Association
treatises. Gratifying as the publication of these translations must be, this feeling of
of American Law Schools, in which
translations of Korkunov and Gareis have already been published, and those of notable works by German, and Italian jurists are about to The other one, to which we here known as the Modern Criminal
French appear. advert, Science
philosophical
or
scientific
pleasure is accompanied by one of painful
wonder, regarding the mysterious causes which thus far have rendered all this literature accessible only to the few. The most obvious explanation is that the
powers of the American legal scholafl who in acumen is scarcely the inferior Of ‘ Modern Theories of Criminality. By C. Ber naldo De Quiros of Madrid. Translated from the second Spanish edition by Alfonso de Salvio. Ph.D.. Assistant Professor in Romance Languages in Northwestern University. With an American preface by the Author, and an introduction by W. W. Smithers, Esq.. of Philadelphia. Secretary of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Asso ciation. Modern Criminal Science Series. v. 1. Little. Brown & Co.. Boston. Pp. xxvii. 249 (index). (84 net.) Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges. Practitioners and Students. By Hans Gross. J. U. D.. Professor of Criminal Law at the Uni versity of Graz, Austria, formerly Magistrate of the Criminal Court at Czernovitz, Austria, Editor of the Archives of Criminal Anthropology and Criminal istics." Translated from the fourth German edition by Horace M. Kallen, Ph.D.. Assistant and Lee turer in Philosophy in Harvard University. With an American preface by the author. and an intro duction by Joseph Jastrow, Ph.D.. Professor of Psy chology in the University of Wisconsin. Modern Criminal Science Series. v. 2. Little, Brown 8! Co.. Boston. Pp. xx. 492 + 22 (appendices and index).
(:5 m.) Crime: Its Causes and Remedies. By Cesare Lombroso. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Criminal Anthropology in the University of Turin. Translated by Henry P. Horton, M.A. With an introduction by Maurice Parmelee. Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri. author of “Principles of Criminal Anthropology," etc. Modern Criminal Science Series. No. 3. Little. Brown 8: Co.. Boston. Pp. xlvi. 451+ bibliog raphy and index 27. ($4.50 net.)
his European confrére, have thus far been largely absorbed in the task 0f mastering an intricate body of case law of his own country, quite as reoondite
as the majestic system of Roman law’ and that when he has had the desire to look beyond this national horizon, he
has turned to England first of all for guidance, and derived from the native
land of the common law most of his knowledge concerning the profound‘?r problems of jurisprudence and legisla
tion. Why English scholars have so far ignored contemporary Continental writers as unconsciously to belittle the importance of their work would not be easy to explain, but we American-5' influenced as we are by English discus sion, owe the peculiar provincial tum
given to juristic philosophy in this country chiefly to these English in fluences, whereas normally we should
have absorbed not only all the best that England has produced but the ripest 0i
