Queen.' Rising with great dignity, and glaring fiercely at Burton, he demanded : ' What became of that money, sir?' The comedian looked him straight in the face; then rising in imitation of an attorney, he replied: 'The lawyers got it'"
With the December number, the Atlantic Monthly closes its sixty-fourth volume. Few magazines can boast a career of such uninterrupted success as this sterling periodical. Its long list of contributors includes the names of almost every writer of prominence for more than a quarter of a century back. The present number contains an interesting account of " The Old Bunch of Grapes Tavern," a famous hostelry of old Boston, by Edwin L. Bynner. " The Tragic Muse," by Henry James, is continued. Henry Van Brunt contributes a valuable paper on " Ar chitecture in the West; " and John Fiske, an article on " Border Warfare of the Revolution." Perhaps the most important article in the contents is that of Prof. N. S. Shaler on "School Vacations," — a subject in which not only teachers and students, but the community at large, are, or should be, deeply interested. The other contents are " De cember out of Doors," by Bradford Torrey; "The Nieces of Mazarin," by Hope Notnor; " The Begum's Daughter," by E. L. Bynner; " Delphi : The Locality and its Legends," by William Crans ton Lawton; " Latin and Saxon America," by Albert G. Browne; and " The Later Years of William Lloyd Garrison."
The December number of the Political Science Quarterly opens with an article on the deferred Constitutional Convention of New York State, by the Hon. Seth Low, President of Columbia College. George Gunton attacks the Economic Basis of Socialism, namely, Karl Marx's theory of " Surplus Value." The Rev. Samuel W. Dike reviews the new and important Government Re port on Marriage and Divorce. Worthington C. Ford (late of the State Department) criticises and opposes the scheme of substituting silver for legal-tender notes. Prof. F. W. Maitland, of Cambridge, England, completes his valuable survey of the materials of English legal history. Prof. F. J. Goodnow, of Columbia College, begins a descrip tion of the recent reorganization of local govern ment in Prussia. Twenty-two recent American, Finish. German, French, and Italian works are reviewed : among the reviewers, besides the editors, are Professors Hadley of Yale, Giddings of Bryn Mawr, and Ashley of Toronto University; J. B. Moore, Assistant Secretary of State; Sir George Baden- Powell, M. P. The Record of Political Events (previously published in the New Prince ton Review) is continued to November i.
BOOK NOTICES.
Rights, Remedies, and Practice. At Law, in Equity, and under the Codes. By John D. Lawson. Vols. I., II. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1889. $6.00 net a volume.
Mr. Lawson is a writer of such established reputation that anything from his pen is sure to be of great interest and value to the profession. In the present work — which is to be completed in seven volumes, one volume to be issued every two months — the author purposes to present a complete view of American Case Law on every species of Right and Remedy, of Action and Defence, both at law and in equity, within the compass of a single work. In other words, his endeavor is to present a substitute for a complete collection of text-books, which will be in itself a working library, containing all that is necessary for the lawyer in his ordinary business. The usefulness of such a work cannot be over-estimated, and an examination of the first two volumes shows that Mr. Lawson has done what he set out to do in a most thorough and satisfactory manner. The work is arranged in four divisions, viz. : I. Persons and Personal Rights. II. Personal Rights and Remedies. III. Property Rights and Remedies. IV. Public Rights and Remedies. Each volume contains about nine hundred pages.
The text, divided into sections with bold-faced heads, has references in the foot-notes to the decisions upon which it is founded, as in the most approved of modern treatises. Between the text and these foot-notes — that is, immediately following the text of nearly every section — is a sub-section, headed "Illustrations," printed from smaller type, which consists of a digest of the facts and rulings in a number of cases pertinent to the text. We fully agree with the publishers in believing that this comprehensive, elaborate, and practical work will prove more useful in every-day practice than any seven volumes extant.
The General Principles of the Law of Con tracts. By Reuben M. Benjamin. Published by R. M. Benjamin, Bloomington, Ill., 1889. $2.00.
