The question of hours of labor is discussed by General Walker in the Atlantic for June. The author of the article will be remembered as the writer of a criticism of Mr. Bellamy's " Looking Backward," which appeared in the "Atlantic," and to which Mr. Bellamy replied at some length. General Walker has made social questions a study, and his criticisms and suggestions on the present " Eight-Hour Law Agitation " come from a man more fully fitted to speak with authority than almost any one in the United States. Charles Dudley Warner's article on " The Novel and the Common School " is a keen analysis of the duty of the public schools in the supply of reading for our young citizens. This and Hannis Taylor's consideration of " The National House of Representatives : Its growing Inefficiency as a Legislative Body," are the two articles which make up the solid reading of the number. Miss Repplier has a whimsical paper called " A Short Defence of Villains; " and Dr. Holmes discusses "Book-hunger," the uses of cranks, and tells a curious story entitled " The Terrible Clock." Mrs. Deland's " Sidney " and the second part of "Rod's Salvation " furnish the fiction of this issue; and there are two poems, an account of a pilgrimage to the localities immortalized in the legends of King Arthur, and several short papers of interest.
BOOK NOTICES.
What Instruments are Negotiable. By J. M. Hawthorne. The Transfer of Negotiable Paper as Collateral Security. By Lewis Lawrence Smith, of the Philadelphia Bar. The Execution of Trusts by the Statute of Uses in Maryland. By John P. O'Ferral. T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia.
These three little volumes were originally written as essays by the several authors; and each obtained the prize in the Universities of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, respectively. They are all clearly and succinctly written, and give evidence of thorough research on the part of the writers. Each volume is accompanied by a table of cases and a well-arranged index. Practitioners will find them of value as containing in a small compass the recognized law upon the subjects of which they treat.
Rights, Remedies, and Practice at Law, in Equity, and under the Codes. By John D. Lawson. Vol. V. Bancroft-Whitney Company, San Francisco. $6.00 net.
This volume — continuing the third division, Property Rights and Remedies — embraces the titles Insurance, Contracts, and Licenses. The same care and intelligent judgment are evidenced in the treatment of these subjects which we have noted in the preceding volumes, and the ground is well and thoroughly covered. Only two more volumes are to come to complete the work; and the lawyer who possesses the seven volumes will have a library which will meet the requirements of an ordinary practice.
Lawyer's Reports Annotated, Book VI., with full Annotations. By Robert Desty. The Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Co., Rochester, 1890. $5.00 net.
Mr. Desty still maintains his reputation as an editor, and this last book is fully up to the standard of its predecessors. A well-selected assortment of cases and admirable annotations combine to make a most valuable volume of Reports.
The American Digest, 1889 (United States Digest, Third Series, Vol. III.). West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1890. $8.00 net.
A volume containing 4,400 pages, and covering all the decisions of all the United States Courts, and Courts of Last Resort of all the States and Terri tories, and the Intermediate Courts of New York State, during the year 1889, is offered to the profession by the enterprising publishers of this admirable digest. The work involved in the preparation of such a volume is something stupendous; and that the result should be so thoroughly satisfactory is a matter for congratulation, not only to the compilers, but to all who have occasion to use a Digest. The decisions are arranged in such a way as to render them easily accessible as precedents; the classification is uniformly good, and the logical connection of the decisions is made the leading guide in the arrangement. We can but repeat what we have said of the previous volumes that the work is indispensable to every practitioner.
A Hand-book of the Tariff on Imports into the United States, the Fref. List, and the Bond and Warehouse System now in Force. By George H. Adams, of the New York Bar. Baker, Voorhis, & Co., New York, 1890. $3.00 net.
