REVIEWS.
The American Law Review, feeling that it can not do better than follow in the footsteps of the "Green Bag," comes out as an illustrated magazine; its May-June number containing portraits of Stanley Matthews and Francis Wharton. While its picture-gallery is hardly up to the standard of the "Green Bag," still the furnishing of any illustrations shows a praiseworthy desire to meet the wishes of many of its readers. The least the subscribers of that enterprising periodical should do is to send in their subscriptions at once for the "Green Bag," out of gratitude, if nothing more, for its "spurring up" of the Review. The contents of the last number are "Comparative Merits of Written and Prescriptive Constitutions," by Thomas M. Cooley; "A Continental Review of the Cutting Affair," by Alberic Rolin; "Public Officers and Candidates for Office," by George Chase; "Surface Waters," by J. C. Thomson; "A Symposium of Law Publishers," containing articles by Charles C. Soule, John B. West, and James E. Briggs. The "Notes" are, as usual, one of the most interesting features.
No more readable or interesting magazine is to be found among our exchanges than "Current Comment and Legal Miscellany," published by the D. B. Canfield Co., Philadelphia. Its "Legal Notes" are selected with evident care and good judgment, and contain much that is entertaining as well as instructive. Its other contents are made up of articles of interest to the profession.
The Political Science Quarterly for June contains a paper on "Municipal Government in Great Britain," by Albert Shaw. J. Hampden Dougherty continues his discussion on "Constitutions of New York." E. P. Cheney contributes a paper on "Conspiracy and Boycott Cases." The other contents are "Rotation in Office," by Frederick W. Whitridge, and "The Whiskey Trust," by Prof. J. W. Jenks.
Johns Hopkins University Studies, seventh Series, VII.-IX. "The River Towns of Connecticut," by Charles M. Andrews. An interesting historical sketch of the settlement of Wethersfield, Hartford, and Windsor.
The most interesting paper in the Medico-Legal Journal for June is entitled "A Clinical and Forensic Study of Trance," by Prof. Edward P. Thwing, M.D., Ph.D. There is always a peculiar fascination connected with the study of psychology, and this article of Professor Thwing's is well worthy of a careful perusal. The other contents are "The Insanity of Childbirth in relation to Infanticide," by Edward M. Heyzer; "Belgium and her Insane Institutions," by Clark Bell; and "The Lebkuchner," by Dr. Matthew D. Field. The frontispiece is a fine portrait of Dr. Charles H. Hughes, of St. Louis, Mo.
BOOK NOTICES.
A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases. By Austin Ahbott. Diossy & Co. New York, 1889. $5.50 net.
This work of Mr. Abbott's cannot fail to be of inestimable value to the profession. It is a practical manual for the guide of the practitioner in the preparation for trial of criminal causes. The varying rules in different jurisdictions are given, so that each practitioner will find therein a brief adapted to rulings of his home tribunals. The reputation of the author is a sufficient guaranty that the work has been thoroughly and exhaustively prepared. The volume is exceedingly attractive typographically, being printed upon heavy paper in clear distinct type. It should find a place in every lawyer's library.
A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Foreclosing Mortgages on Real Property. By Charles Hastings Wiltsie, of the Rochester Bar. Williamson Law Book Co. Rochester, N. Y., 1889. $7.50.
We believe this is the only work which has been published treating distinctively of the foreclosure of mortgages upon real estate. It is what the author claims it to be, an exhaustive and complete treatise upon the practice of foreclosing mortgages. It is adapted to the practice of every State in the Union, and the limitations and modifications of general principles and special and peculiar instances are given fully in the notes. Over eight thousand cases are cited, and an exceptionally thorough and complete index of both text and notes will be appreciated by the practitioner. It will prove a work of great value to the profession, and especially to such as make a specialty of conveyancing. The volume contains over eleven hundred pages, and is printed and bound in the best law-book style.
