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SOULE'S LEGAL NUMBER NINE. SEPTEMBER, 1887. QUID PRO QUO. Whoever receives this paper, and is pleased with it, can make a grace- ful and acceptable acknowledgment by sending to the publisher an order, a request for catalogues, or a word of encouragement. COST OF DELIVERING BOOKS. Customers are expected to pay all charges for delivery of books ad- vertised in this paper, or in catalogues or second-hand lists. But where money accompanies the order, Mr. Soule will deliver the books ordered, free of charge. NEW LAW BOOKS. Elsewhere in this paper will be found announcements in detail of Jones's Index to Legal Periodicals ; of new editions of Addison on Torts, of The Comic Blackstone, and of Vol. s of Chitty's Equity Digest ; of a Supplement to Stimson's American Statute Law ; of a third volume of Ewell's Essentials of the Law ; of Sprague's Massachusetts Corporation Law ; and of a very im- portant series to be entitled English Cases. CATALOGUES AND LISTS. Catalogue. Mr. Soule has in press and will be ready to distribute in October the seventh edition of his Short Catalogue of Law Books, brought down to date. Believing that lawyers would like to see how the prominent legal writers look, he hopes to illustrate this edition with portraits of the authors whose works he publishes. If their photo- graphs can be secured in time, the Short Catalogue, thus illustrated, will be as interesting to lawyers as Houg«ton, Mifflin, & Co 's illustrated catalogue is to general readers. Lists of Second-Hand Books. Two lists printed in August are now ready for delivery, as follows : — List 12. Second-Hand Text-Books, latest editions. List 13. Second-Hand Text-Books, earlier and cheaper editions. Manuscript lists of books at 25 and 50 cents per volume are prepared at frequent intervals. List 11, Old English Law Books, is exhausted. Another similar list will be ready in September or October. A List of Books Suitable for Christmas Presents to Lawyers and Judges (biographies, the history of law, courts, etc., and other books in- teresting to the profession, in choice editions and fine bindings, as well as legal portraits for framing) will be printed in November. The Short Catalogue, or any of these lists, will be sent without expense to any one who asks for them. THE BEST OF RECENT LAW BOOKS. Among books which should be in every lawyer's library are the follow- ing recent publications : — Schouler on Wills. — The large sale which this treatise obtained immediately upon its publication (eaily in the present year) is happily explained by the Railway and Corporation Law Journal as follows : — " This is a work that will attract very general attention and interest in the profession. Mr. .Schouler has been favorably known as a law writer of the first rank ever since the publication of his earliest works, and there is a real demand — at least a real opportunity — at this time for a new American work on the law of wills. We have already at hand the elegant and comprehensive work of Mr. Thomas Jarman in two excellent American editions, and the treatise by Judge Redfield ; also various other minor works on the subject. But the latest of these is now some years behind the published decisions of our courts, and the profes- sion, it may be confidently assumed, will welcome a new book in one volume which presents the American law clearly and intelligently with reference to the later cases. This is exactly the ground which the work in hand seems to cover. It presents the law briefly, but yet in sufficient detail for the brief-maker. It sets out the American law as distinguished from the law of England, and, without any attempt to exhaust the cases, furnishes abundant citations to the leading cases and latest cases. BIBLIOGRAPHY. "The English law is not neglected, but the mass of detail which lumbers the English treatises upon the subject seems to have been passed over very lightly. A somewhat critical examination of this new work warrants an expression of opinion that it is a well-prepared and very satisfactory treatise, and that it cannot fail to interest and serve a large class in the profession." Schouler on Executors and Administrators. — Attention is newly attracted, by the publication of Schouler on Wills, to the authors recent treatise on the subject of Executors, etc., published in the same form and at the same price. The two works are excellent companions. Stimson's American Statute Law. — Being the first comparative statement and condensation ever attempted of the Statute Law of all the States, this volume will naturally find its way into the ofiice of every law- yer who has a practice extending beyond the borders of his own State, or whose clients have interests or relations in other States. It has never before been possible for a lawyer to get any hint of the statute law of another commonwealth without buying its expensive statutes or sending to another lawyer for a statement of the law. The " novel, enormous, and audacious undertaking" of Mr. Stimson — as the Albany Law Jour- nal calls it — furnishes for the practitioner an indication of what the law is in any State. The intelligence and precision of the author's classifica- tion, and the compactness and lucidity of statement through which the contents of two hundred and fifty large volumes have been indexed in this one volume, have been warmly praised by the law journals, and by lawyers who have used the book. Apart from its practical use to a law- yer, no intelligent and thoughtful citizen should fail to study this work, and ponder over the similarities, diversities, tendencies, and effects of forty difterent systems of legislation. In many points of view, Stim- son's Statute Law is the most important law book published in this generation. Wood on Railway Law. — The Central Law Journal notice of this work was so satisfactory that its republication here may be pardoned. It said : — " Wood's Railway Law. — We have not received a copy of this work from the publisher for review, and we do not owe him any duty of noticing it; but we understand that the learned author is not responsible for the neglect of the pub- lisher to send to the legal press the customary copies for notice. It is undoubt- edly the most important legal work that was issued during the past year. We have already used it enough to see that substantially everything relating to the law of raihvaj's, of persuasive authority in the American courts, which has been adjudicated either in England or America, is to be found in it. It is in three volumes, and we are convinced that the subject cannot be covered with sufficient detail in less than three volumes. The statements of legal doctrine are char- acterized by that clearness and soundness which have made the works of this writer books of standard authority in the American courts. About 12,000 cases have been cited. Of these, the leading and more important cases have been carefully analyzed and stated, cither in the text or in the notes, with con- siderable fulness. We think it right, as a matter of news to the profession, to call attention to this very important work." SUPPLEMENT TO STIMSON'S STATUTE LAW. Lawyers who are using Mr. Stimson's excellent digest of American Statute Law will learn with interest that he is preparing his first sup- plement, which will include legislation to the end of 1S87. It will cover somewhere from twenty to thirty pages, of size and style corresponding to the original volume, and will be sold for fifty cents in paper binding, or seventy-five cents in cloth. It will be ready in November or December. The second volume of the work is not yet ready for the press, owing to the unusual amount of labor in preparation and verification. It is ex- pected with impatience, as Corporation Law — one of the principal subjects it will include — is of very great importance to most lawyers. HELPS IN THE STUDY OF THE LAW. The attention of law students and instructors is called to the following excellent elementary books, which are more fully described on page 1 1 of this paper : — Chamberlayne's Edition of Best's Principles of the Law of Evi- dence. Ewell's Essentials of the Law. Vol 1, Blackstone ; Vol. 2, Plead- ing, Contracts, Equity ; Vol.3 (in prepai'ation), Evidence, Torts, Real Property. Heard's Principles of Equity Pleading. Browne's Law of Domestic Relations. Indermaur's Student's Common-Law Cases.