in authorship but in plot. The other contents wor thy of especial mention are " Southern Womanhood as affected by the War," by Wilbur Fisk Tillett j " A great Oerman Artist, — Adolf Menzel " (illustrated), by Carl Marr; " The Players " (illustrated), by Brander Matthews; " India," by Florence Earle Coates; "What are Americans doing in Art? " by F. D. Mil let; " The Hunger-Strike," by Elizabeth W. Fiske; "How Old Folks won the Oaks" (illustrated), by J.J. Eakins; *' Bronte," by Harriett Prescott Spofford; "The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace " (illustrated), by Edgar W. Nye; " Mazzini's Letters to an English Family " (edited by Stephen Pratt), by Joseph Mazzini; " A Rival of the Yosemite, — King's River Canon " (illustrated), by John Muir; " A Theft Condoned," by Gertrude Smith; "The Food-Supply of the Future," by W. O. Atwater; " James Russell Lowell," by George E. Woodberry; " Lowell's Americanism," by Joel Benton; " The Majors Appointment " (illustra ted), by Julia Schayer; " San Francisco Vigilance Committees," by the chairman of the committees, 1851, 1856, and 1877, William T. Coleman.
BOOK NOTICES. Annotated Constitution of the United States. By A. J. Baker, of the Iowa Bar. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 189 1. $4.00. Old and firmly established as is the Constitution of the United States, no one subject has probably given rise to more grave questions calling for judicial decision; and with the rapidly increasing wealth and commerce of our country, these questions will con tinue to arise, and the courts be called upon to settle them The purpose of this edition of the Constitution is to furnish to the bar of the nation a complete digest of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, wherein is called in question any of the provi sions of the Constitution, arranged under the headings of the several articles, sections, and clauses upon which the decisions are predicated, thereby making a com plete and ready reference to the case, and giving the exact point decided in each case, so as to save the labor of searching through numerous and long opinions to find the exact question desired Mr. Baker appears to have done his work with great care and thoroughness, and this volume will be found invaluable not only to practitioners in the United States courts, but to the profession at large.
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Important Federal Statutes, Annotated. Ed ited by Russell H. Curtis, of the Chicago Bar. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 1891. $2.oonet. The establishment of Circuit Courts of Appeal by Act of Congress has called forth this work of Mr. Curtis's, the principal purpose of which is tc place before the profession in an easily accessible form the original evidence from which must be solved the new questions to which the Acts establishing these courts give rise. Those enactments are printed together with the general statutes which govern the appellate juris diction of the federal courts, the general practice statutes enacted since the Revised Statutes, and the rules of the Supreme Court. Another purpose of the book is to present in a single volume the more im portant general statutes which govern the jurisdiction and practice of federal courts, both of original and appellate jurisdiction, and which have been enacted since the publication of the Revised Statutes In the chapter on the "Jurisdiction of Federal Courts," the author makes some valuable comments, and the conclusions which he draws will be of much assist ance in advance of any judicial decisions upon the points involved. The book also contains the InterState Commerce Act, as amended in 1889 and 1891. Mr. Curtis has certainly given the practitioner a very compact and handy guide to practice in the Fed eral Courts, under the new acts, and his book will undoubtedly be much sought for by those who have occasion to appear before these courts. Index of Cases Judicially Noticed (1865- 1890). Being a list of all cases cited in judgments re ported in the " Law Reports," " Law Journal," "Law Times," and " Weekly Reporter " from Michaelmas Term, 1865, to the end of 1890; with the places where they are so cited. By George John Talbot and Hugh For i'. Stevens & Sons, Limited, and Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, London. 1891. $7.50. We cannot give a better idea of the scope and intent of this valuable work than by quoting freely from the author's preface. " Any one who has had access to a law library in which the Reports have been ' noted up ' by giving at the head of each case references to all later cases in which it has been cited, must be aware of the great help afforded by such notes in the task of search ing for authorities. . . . The aim of the present Index is so far as possible to supply the place of such notes. Any one, therefore, who may use this book will be able to trace the history of the treatment of any de cision in later judgments, and will be guided by any decision to the later decisions on the same subject, in just the same way as if he had a complete library of
