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REVIEWS. 241 The American Digest. Annual. 1894. (September r, 1893, to August 31, 1894.) Prepared by the Editorial Staff of the National Reporter System. St. Paul, Minn. : West Publishing Co. Oct. 1894. A most desirable tendency towards brevity in this Digest is worth no- ticing. 1892 had cols. 6046; 1893 had cols. 5715; this has cols. 5432. There is still room for improvement. Probably it is hard not to be pro- lix in work done in such haste as this, and much will be excused by many of the profession for the sake of having a year's law digested within two months of the last case. r. w. h.