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The Law Times (London), 1843 to 1884, 78 vols., foUo ; and The Law Times Keports, 1860 to 1884, 51 vols., 8vo ; in all, 129 vols. $400.00. The Jurist (London). Complete. 30 VOls. in 55. $110.00. Beavan's Reports. 36 vols. $240.00. Moak's English Reports. 1872 to 1884. 35 vols, and 2 indexes. $75.00. Howell's State Trials. 34 vols. $120.00. Pickering's English Statutes to 1865. 105 vols. $125.00. The English Statutes to 1776 (in force in the United Stated Quarto edition. 12 vols. $25.00. The Year Books. 10 vols. 1596 to 1620 $25.00. Brown's Parliamentary Cases. Complete 7 vols. Dublin, 17^4. $7.00. Law Reports, Equity and Chancery Cases. 1865 to 1883. 54 vols. $175.00. English Law and Equity Reports. 40 vols. $20.00. English Common Law Keports and Index (American reprint). 121 vols. $240.00. Merlin : Repertoire Universel et Raisonne de Jurisprudence. 27 vols. 1827. $54.00. Parliamentary History of England. Henry I to Charles IL 24 vols. $30.00. English Chancery Reports (as fellows : Vernon, 2 vols., 1S06 -, P. Williams, 3 vols , 1790 ; Atkyns, 3 vuls., 1781 ; Ambler, 1790-, Eden, 2 vols., iSiS ; Brown, 4 vols., 1786; Cooper t. Eldon, 1S24; Maddock, 6 vols, in 3, 1S29). 22 vols. in 19. $25.00. Chancery Reports (Turner and Russell : Russell and Myhie, -2 vols. ; Mylne and Keen, 3 vols. : Craig and Phillips; Phillips, 2 vols. ; Tamlyn ; Keen, 2 vols.). 12 VOls. $18.00. Vice-Chancellors' Reports (as follows: Maddocl--, 6 vols in 3, 1829; Simons and Stuart, 2 vols, in I ; Simons, 17 vols, in 12 : Simons (N. S.), 2 vols, in i ; Younge and Collyer, 2 vols. in I ; Collyer, 2 vols, in i; Hare, 11 vols. — mauily American reprints). 42 VOls. In 30. $50.00. King's Bench and Common Pleas Reports (Saunders, 2 vols., 1816 ; Salkeld, 3 vols., 1791; Strange, 2 vols., 1792 : W. 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Exchequer Keports (Younge and Jervis, 3 vols. ; Crompton and Jervis, 2 vols. ; Crompton and Meeson, 2 vols. ; Meeson and Welsby, 16 vols. ; Exchequer, 11 vols.). 34 vols. Eng- lish editions. $60.00. {Also, 7nost of the English reports, old and new. at loiv prices, ■which will ie given on inquiry,} Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence. 1827. 5 vols. Cloth. $15.00. Whewell's Grotius de Jure Belli et Pacis. 3 vols. Cloth. $7.50. Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown. 1S24. 2 vols. Boards. $10.00. Pike's History of Crime. 2 vols. Cloth. $5.00. Coke on Littleton (last edition). 2 vols. 1853. $12.00. THE NEW ENGLISH DIGESTS. Harrison's, Fisher's, and Jacob's Fisher's Digests have been widely known and owned in America. Now comes Mews' Common Law- Digest (see description on page 3), better still, to supersede them all. As a digest is of little use unless it is both good and recent, lawyers find themselves compelled to get Mews'. A leading lawyer in Albany, N. Y., writes, "Although it seems wicked to throw away Fisher's Digest, which cost over $100, I have decided, after examining Mews', to let Fisher go, and take the new edition." Singularly enough, there are many lawyers who own Jacob's Fisher's Digest, who do not understand that it covers only the common-law cases. Such is the fact, however ; and whoever owns that digest, or Mews', or Fisher's, or Harrison's, needs Chitty's Equity Digest (or Index) also, in order to cover the whole range of English reports. Vol. 2 is now ready, and the other four volumes will follow shortly. CONDITION OP THE LEGAL PROFESSION. The Law Quarterly Review for July, in an interesting article on The Position and Prospects of the Legal Profession," says: — " There are obviously two points of view from which the profession may be regarded, either as a money-making body, or as a social order filling an important and necessary place in the national economy as agents in the administration of justice. The latter is plainly the point of view of the highest importance, though it is natural that the inajority of lawyers should regard their profession from the bread-winner's point of view. Looked at thus, there are no surmises so uncertain as those which contain statements as to the position of the legal pro- fession as a money-making business. ... As to the leaders, they are probably in pretty much the same position as their predecessors. . . . We should be in- clined to say that the incomes of members of large commercial and business firms are now more considerable than they used to be, though during the last five or six years there may have been, owing to bad trade, a falling-off in the gains of most high-class solicitors. ... On the other hand, the ordinary solicitor has to contend against increased competition and against a cheapening of law work of all kinds, and, at present, against the depression in trade and agriculture. But against these adverse influences have to be placed, as permanent factors, the great increase in population, the increased facilities for obtaining legal assistance, and the steady growth of joint-stock enterprise. . . . Take it all in all, it is im- possible not to perceive that lawyers have suffered less than most other classes by recent social, political, and economical changes " " If we endeavor to escape from the merely professional view of the lawyer, and to form an estimate of the general tone of the legal mind at the present day, the judgment of most will be that this tone is broader and more robust than it used to be. This is due to various causes. The abolition of the more abstruse technicalities of pleading and conveyancing, which were essentially narrowing in their tendency, has caused lawyers to take a broader view of things. To this must be added the influence of the Bench, the more powerful occupants of which have endeavored to take what may be termed a common-sense view of the law. . . . To the above element must be added the infltience of the new school of legal writers, of whom Sir James Stephen is the most eminent instance. Their influence is already apparent in a gradual codification of English law. . . . Again, the vast mass of reported decisions which now load the book-shelves of every lawyer has gone far to lower the value of reports. Main principles, as a rule, are now abundantly settled, and consequently legal decisions are now, generally speaking, either confirmative of more ancient ones, or are on side-points of lesser importance, or are on the construction of some statute. . . . The result is, that a solid acquaintance with general principles has begun to be more sought for than a knowledge of legal decisions, which no mind can now carry in their entirety. When decisions become unreasonably numerous, the ' Case Lawyer ' ceases to be the good lawyer of past times, when a knowledge of cases was synonymous with a knowledge of principles. ... If to this be added the vast decrease in the proportion which disputes as to land now bear to the whole mass of litigation, and the diminution of real-property learning, and the proportionate increase in litigation arising out of mercantile and business transactions, the difference in the tone of the legal mind is not in the least astonishing." SECOND-HAND LISTS. Mr. Soule's stock of second-hand law books has grown so large that it is impossible to give in this paper any lists which will cover even the most important books he has for sale. Separate lists of various classes of second-hand books have therefore been printed, and will be printed from time to time in future, somewhat as follows : — List No. I. Old, scarce, and expensive Law Books. " " 2. Out-of-print but inexpensive Law Books. " " 3. Second-hand Text-Books, &c. " " 4. A few very scarce and finely bound old books. " 5. Second-hand Text-Books, &c. (supplemental). " " 6. English Reports and Periodicals. " " 7. Trials, English and American.
- ' " 8. American Reports, Digests, Laws, and Law Journals.
" " 9. Speeclies, Biograpiiies, and Legal Miscellany. Lists I, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are now ready. Lists 7, 8, and g will be issued soon. Either of them will be sent without charge to any lawyer who asks for it.
