important diplomatic mission to Russia, and at the close of the war he was elected professor of poli tical economy and social science in the University of Mississippi, but a year later was transferred to the law professorship. He was elected to the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses of the United States, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1876, and re-elected in 1882. President Cleveland made him Secretary of the Interior, and at the close of his administration appointed him to the Supreme Court Bench.
REVIEWS. OWING to the great amount of space required for our obituary notices, we are compelled to omit our usual Reviews of Magazines.
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tion of his '• Marriage, Divorce, and Separation." Whether or not the profession appreciate fully the "new faith " as laid down by this great lawgiver, he will receive its unqualified commendation for the sound, reliable, and praiseworthy character of his contributions to legal literature. Not, however, until the millennium comes shall we look for the carrying out of Mr. Bishop's suggestion of " The establish ment by the National Bar Association, or some other association or individual able and willing to bear the expense* of a bureau to investigate, by the help of trained experts, every book relating to the law, and es pecially every new one, and report in writing to the profession, simply and only as to its bonafides, Ifit is a reprint of a foreign work, is it correctly done, with the name of author, dates, and the like, true to the fact? If it professes to be original, how far is it so? A re due credits given f Are the rules of our written language concerning quotation marks fol lowed? Are there concealed piracies? Did the writer alter from other books any part of what he put forth as his own? Was the work done person ally by the ostensible author? If a book of reported cases, did the judges in their opinions dealfairly with counsel, text-writers, and one another?
BOOK NOTICES.
NEW COMMENTARIES ON THE CRIMINAL LAW upon a new system of Legal Exposition. By JOEL PRENTISS BISHOP. Eighth Edition (being a new work based on former editions). In two volumes. T. H. Flood and Company, Chicago, 1892. Law sheep. $12.00 net.
LAWYERS' REPORTS ANNOTATED, Book XVI. All current cases of general value and importance decided in the United States, State, and Terri torial Courts, with full annotation. By BURDETT A. RICH, editor, and HENRY P. FARNHAM, as sistant editor. Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y. $5.00 net.
Mr. Bishop's work on Criminal Law has been long We regret that we no longer see the name of Rob and favorably known by the profession; and while the ert Desty appearing as editor of this series of re present edition has been largely rewritten and in ports. We have no doubt that his successors are various ways improved, the arrangement has not been competent to carry on his work, but his services have radically changed. In its present form the two vol been so valuable that it will be difficult to fill his umes are really almost independent of each other. place. The annotations in the present volume are Volume I. is complete in itself, and constructed and very full, and their quality is apparently good. An indexed to be sold separately to purchasers who do unusually large number of cases are reported and not wish also the second volume; the latter consist 'cited. ing;, as the author says in his preface, "of the minuter expositions of forty-nine specific crimes, whereof a GENERAL DIGEST OF THE DECISIONS OF THE PRIN general view, with the leading principles governing CIPAL COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES, ENG them, appears in the first volume. To the prepara LAND, AND CANADA. Refers to all reports, tion of this last edition Mr. Bishop has brought to official and unofficial, first published during the bear that careful discrimination and thorough research year ending September, 1892. Annual, being which have gained him his enviable reputation as a Volume VII. of the scries. Lawyers' Co-opera law-writer, and the result is an admirable and ex tive Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y. haustive treatise. It is a work indispensable to the $6.00. criminal lawyer, and to the general practitioner as well. We have had occasion, more than once, to express The treatise Mr. Bishop claims to be the culmina our appreciation of this series of Digests; and the tion of his " new system of legal exposition," which present volume maintains the high standard of excel he so fully explained in the preface to the last edi lence which distinguished its predecessors. This
