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SOULE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 3 Eegal 3Sibltosrapi)B. NUMBER TEN. FEBRUARY, 1888. CASH ON OR BEFORE DELIVERY. Except in rare instances, subject to special arrangements, Mr. .Soule does not wish to sell on credit or on open account. Lawyers (not already customers) who order books should either send money with the orders, allow the books to come " O. D." by express at their cost, or else furnish satisfactory Boston or New York references in regard to their financial responsibility. If the purchaser can satisfy himself, by inquiry at the nearest com- mercial agency, that it is safe to do so, it is much better to send cash (post-office order or cashier's draft on an Eastern bank) with the order. There are then no ledger accounts to be opened, no bills to be sent ; and in return for the courtesy of advance payment, Mr. SoULE agrees to deliver the books free of expense. It is a saving of trouble to the seller and of expense to tlie buyer. If books ordered have been already sold, the cash will be returned or held subject to further orders, as the buyer may wish. CATALOGUES OF NEW AND OLD LAW BOOKS. Mr. Soule has just issued the seventh edition of his Short Cata- logue OF Law Books, corrected to November, 1887. This edition is rendered more than usually attractive by giving, with the advertisements, portraits of the authors whose works he publishes. The Short Cata- logue has always been popular with lawyers, as giving a great deal of practical information about books and prices in a small space. This new feature of portraiture adds largely to its interest. In February will be issued — List 14. Second-hand Text-Books, latest editions. List 15. Second-Hand Text-Books, earlier and cheaper editions. In case a sufficient number of applications are received in response to this announcement, Mr. SouLE.will print and distribute another list of very cheap LAW books at 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1.00 per volume. If you care to receive such a list, send in your name at once. A large collection of English treatises, etc , mostly published prior to i860, is now being catalogued. They will probably be divided into three Lists, — Rare, Scarce, and Quaint Old Books; Last Editions of Out-of-Print Treatises ; and Editions Other than the Latest. The Catalogue and any or all of these Lists will be sent without cost to any one who asks for them. A GREAT STORE-HOUSE OF CASES, Have you had a chance to examine the new edition of Chittv's Equity Digest? If not, try to find it in the nearest bar library or in the library of some good lawyer, and see how much law is packed away in its double-columned, finely printed pages ; how well and fully the cases are given, facts and points of law together, so that reference to the case itself is often unnecessary ; and how applicable these English Chancery decisions are to our American practice. It is hardly possible to get more good law in the same compass than is stated in the five volumes already issued of this edition. In these days of cheapening law books, eight dollars a volume seems at first thought to be a high price : but on finding how much printed matter is contained in every volume, and comparing prices, not with subsidized official reports or with reprints of old books, but with recent State or National digests, Chitty's Equity Digest will be found to be cheaper, in proportion to its contents, than nine out of ten of our digests. Every lawyer who has Fisher's or Mews's or Jacob's Fisher's Digest has a useful treasury of English cases : but he has only the common-law reports. — as neither of these digests covers equity cases, — and he needs Chitty's Equity Digest to fill his set. With Chitty, he has the whole round of English law on his shelves ; without it, he lacks the most useful portion. - the Chancery side. auUlets of t|)e iato. Visible Brains. — The London Law Journal of Dec. 3, 1887, in speak- ing of Mr. Soule's Short Catalogue, Illustrated with Portraits of Legal Authors, says : " The idea, which appears to be entirely new, seems intended to satisfy the curiosity expressed in the lines, — ' Still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.' It may. therefore, be as well to say at once that each author has but one head. Dropping into Poetry. — Mr. Jones sticks gravely to the prose of law in all his treatises, and in the Index to Legal Periodicals he deals with the driest and briefest of scheduled facts. But on the titlepage of the Index he breaks forth in a sudden flash of poetic quotation, thus : Index-learning turns no student pale, "'et holds the eel of science by the tail. Poi'E, Diiiiciad. The Law Quarterly Review for January, just received, contains, among other articles, " The Beatitude of Seisin," by F. W. Maitland ; " Compulsory Pilotage," by R. G. Marsden : " Evidence in Criminal Cases, of Similar but Unconnected Acts, by Herbert Stephen; "Public Meetings and Public Order I., Italy," by Senator Tommaso Corsi ; and a second article by Judge O' Connor Morris, on " The Land System of Ire- land." Single numbers of the Quarterly are sold for seventy-five cents. Subscription (including postage), 3^2.75 in advance. The three completed volumes can be bought in sheep or in half calf binding. International Copyright. — Under the English International Copyright Act of 1886. a recent Order of Council proclaims that nine countries have joined the Copyright Union, — England, France. Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hayti, and Tunis. It is to be hoped that Con- gress will pass an act establishing International Copyright, so that our authors can avail themselves of the protection of the Union. If patents are made international, there seems to be no valid reason why authors should be denied the same privileges as to their copyright. Vigorous Language well Applied — The editor of the American Law Review begins an editorial note on Public Printing with this strong but truthful assertion : •' IIany of the law books which are printed by public authority, under contracts with particular publishers or with so- called 'public printers,' are mean and disreputable specimens of book- making." There is great danger, in the attempt to make law books cheap, that the essentials of honest manufacture — good type, good proof- reading, good paper, and good solid durable binding — may be sacrificed. General Average. — A new edition (the fourth) of Lowndes on General .Average, English and Foreign, has just been issued in London. The Introduction and First Part have been completely re- written ; and all the rest of the book has been revised, and annotated with the latest authorities. In the Appendices are given the Roman Civil Law, the Consolado del Mare, and the laws of all civilized coun- tries as to General Average, together with projects for new codes. Mr. Soule has imported a supply of the new edition of this valuable treatise, to be sold in half law calf binding for S9 00 net, or to libraries, on certificate, for $7.50 net. Shelf-fillers. — In buying libraries, Mr. SouLE has accumulated a large number of text-books of old editions, of books in shabby binding, of odd volumes, or partial sets of common reports (like Peters's U. S., and the early Massachusetts), which are too good to throw awa}', and yet not good enough to charge high prices for. If there should be a sufficient number of apj^lications, in response to this paragraph, Mr. Soule will print a list of these books, priced at 25 cents, 50 cents, and §1.00 per volume, and will mail it to all applicants. If you would like to receive such a list, send in your name at once. Stimson on "Trust" Combinations. — No recent article published in a law magazine has been more widely quoted and discussed than the interesting discussion by F. J. Stimson, author of American Statute Law. in the Harvard Law Review for October, 1887, upon " Trusts," in the new sense of business combinations to control stock, manufactures, or prices. There have been no statutes or de- cisions bearing upon such combinations, and Mr. Stimson therefore discusses this dangerous novelty in mercantile development, with a view to what ought to be and what may be the law, rather than to what it is. His article is timely and very interesting.