a series of superb illustrations of Shakspeare's "Much Ado about Nothing, — most of them fullpage, — from drawings by Edwin A. Abbey. Fol lowing this paper is a comprehensive and popular article on the " New York Chamber of Com merce," richly illustrated. The third chapter of W. D. Howells's remarkable story, "An Imperative Duty," presents some highly dramatic scenes. A genuine treat to lovers of literature is offered in the " Letters of diaries Dickens to Wilkie Col lins," which are now for the first time given to the public through the editorship of Laurence Hutton. Montgomery Schuyler continues his " Glimpses of Western Architecture," and gives his impressions of the domestic architecture of Chicago. Elizabeth Stoddard writes a pleasant summer story, " A Wheat-field Idyl." Mr. De Blowitz contributes a peculiarly striking article on " Germany, France, and General European Politics," which will doubt less create a sensation wherever it is read. Harriet Pinckney Huse rescues from oblivion "An Untold Story of the Florida War." Frederick Boyle gives a remarkably interesting account of some of the most powerful of the " Chinese Secret Societies." Walter Besant contributes another paper on " Lon don; " nearly a score of illustrations accompany the article. In " Under the Minarets," F. Hopkinson Smith relates his experiences with dragomans, dervishes, and Turkish citizens while sojourning as an artist last summer in the city of Constantinople; and he illustrates his article with a number of beautiful reproductions of his own paintings. The September Cosmopolitan is truly a " Wo man's Number," no less than fourteen of the fair sex appearing as contributors. Lady Dilke describes " France's Greatest Military Artist," Detaille; Eleanor Lewis gives an interesting ac count of the " Forgotten City " of Solentum; Mary Bawn Ford's article on " Malmaison in the Market " is filled with reminiscences of Napoleon and Josephine; Amelie Rives's story, " According to Saint John," is continued, and is likely to give rise to as much comment as her earlier works. The other contents are : " Inequality," by Katherine Grosjean, " The Ladies' New York Club," by Julia Hayes Percy; " The Evolution of the Society Journal," by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor; " Soci ety Women as Authors," by Anna Vernon Dorsey, " Tattersall's," by Elizabeth Bisland, "II Mandolenesta," by Daisy O'Brien; " The Ro
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mance of Count Konigsmark," by Molly Elliott Seawell; " Woman's Share in Russian Nihilism," by Ella Noraikow. All of these articles are superbly illustrated.
BOOK NOTICES. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property. By Joseph Darlington, LL.D. (Founded on the Treatise of Joshua Williams, Esq.) T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia, 1891. Law sheep. $5.00 net. The original work, by Mr. Williams, on which this treatise is founded, has always been held in high esteem by the profession, though not attaining, per haps, the popularity accorded to his work on the law of "Real Property." The chief defect, if it may be called a defect, in Mr. Williams's treatise on the law of " Personal Property," was the fact that a large proportion of the text was devoted to summarizing modern English statutory provisions and decisions under them, which had little or any interest for the profession in this country. In the present volume Mr. Darlington has eliminated from the original work so much of the text as is inapplicable to the United States, and has added the latest authorities, English and American, applicable to the law of the subjects treated of in the retained text. He has also added several topics of importance not discussed in the original work. The result is eminently satisfactory, and the work in its present form is most admirably adapted to the needs of the practising lawyer. Clear, comprehensive, concise, and accurate, it may be safely said that it is one of the very best works upon the subject which has yet been offered to the profession. Digest of Lawyer's Reports, Annotated. (Vols. I. to X. inclusive.) With full Index to Notes, and Table of Cases Annotated. The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y., 1891. The possessor of this well-known series of Re ports will find this digest invaluable as a means of ready reference to the subject-matter contained in the several volumes. It appears to have been care fully prepared, and the index to the notes is very full and well arranged. A Dictionary of Law, containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and Knglish Jurisprudence, ancient and modern, including
