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over any other possibly suitable ones.

"Mechanics" seemed the best term to use for those books explaining the internal processes of the Supreme Court. This classification includes the appointing of Justices and the more or less day-to-day operations of the Supreme Court (e.g., Henry Abraham's The Judiciary; the Supreme Court in the Governmental Process, 3rd ed., (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1973).

"Constitution" was another fairly obvious heading under which could be grouped a steady stream of volumes over the years concerning what the Court has and has not done with that most important work, an obvious example being Wallace Mendelson's The Constitution and the Supreme Court, 2d ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965).

"Specific Cases" is fairly self-explanatory. Any book whose taking-off point was a specific case or a related group of cases was placed in this category regardless of where else it might fit. (For example, Stanley Kutler's Privilege and Creative Destruction; the Charles River Bridge Case (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971) was placed in this class though it could have fit under other categories).

"Social Science" was a fairly arbitrary category for what appeared to be a developing trend in legal scholarship. Titles like Abraham Davis' United States Supreme Court and the Use of Social Science Data (New York: MSS Information Corp., 1973) and Paul Rosen's The Supreme Court and Social Science (Urban: University of Illinois Press, 1972) are so bold about making the connection that they seem to call out for a category of their own.

Finally, "Fundamental Rights" was the label used for the fairly constant flow of books concerning the Constitutional guarantees which are the center of so much scholarly and emotional debate. Again the difficulty with overlapping appears: Michael Meltsner's Cruel and Unusual; the Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (New York: Random, 1973) could have fit other categories but was included here.

Once again Dr. Johnson's statement springs to mind and one wonders if the dog isn't trying the even more impossible feat of walking on its own two front legs.

PART TWO

Having considered the categorization of the vast quantity of available literature, it is appropriate to turn to several sets which by their size and scholarly content merit individual analysis. One of these is The Justices of the United States Supreme Court 1789-1969: Their Lives and Major Opinions, edited by Leon Friedman and Fred L.

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