Scribner's. An Artist in Japan (illustrated i, Robert Blum; Un published Letters of Carlyle; A New England Farm (illustrated), Frank French; The One 1 Knew the Best of All : A Memory of the Mind of a Child, Chapters XI.-XII., by Frances Hodgson Burnett; The Restoration House (illustrated), Stephen T. Aveling; Worth While, Edward S. Martin; In Rented Rooms, George I. Putnam; The Cities that were Forgotten (illustrated), Charles F. Lummis; A Glimpse of an Artist, Viola Roseboro'; Anne of Brittany's Châteaux in the Valley of the Loire (illus trated), Theodore Andrea Cook; The Arts relating to Women, and their Exhibition in Paris (illustrated), Octave Uzanne; Historic Moments: The Crisis of the Schipka Pass, Archibald Forbes. LEADING ARTICLES IN THE LAW JOURNALS.
American Law Review (March-April, '93). Politics and the Supreme Court of the United States, Walter D. Coles; Liability of Members of a De Facto Corporation, Henry L. Woodward; Abatement of Legacies where an Estate shows a Deficiency of Assets, Percy L. Edwards. Columbia Law Times (April, '93). The Chinese Question, Hon. John Bassett Moore; Methods of Instruction at American Law Schools: III. Law School of Harvard University, Lloyd McKim Garrison. The Counsellor (April, '93). Good. City Government, Bishop Potter: Undue Influence as affecting the Validity of Wills. The Juridical Review (April, '93). The New Italian School of Private International Law, L, M. J. Farrelly; Relief from Forfeiture, Will C. Smith; Diplomacy in the Time of Machiavelli, Professor Nys; Electricity as a Nuisance, G. H. Knott. Harvard Law Review (April, '93). Alteration of Negotiable Instruments. Melville M. Bigelow; Congress should abrogate Federal Juris diction over State Corporations, Alfred Russell; Land Transfer: A Reply to Criticisms of the Torrens System, James R. Carret; A Defect in the Massachusetts Probate System. Oliver Prescott, Jr. Law Quarterly Review (April, '93). Some Aspects of Law Teaching, Sir Edward FrySummary Jurisdiction, W. J. Stewart; Custom in the Common Law, F. A. Greer; The Present System of Law Reporting, John Mews.
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DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT. A treatise on the law peculiar to actions for injuries resulting in death, including the text of the statutes, and an analytical table of their provisions. By FRANCIS B. TIFFANY. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1893. Law sheep, $4.75 delivered. This work treats of those questions of law which are peculiar to the various statutory civil actions maintainable when the death of a person has been caused by the wrongful act or negligence of another. It is, in fact, an exhaustive compilation of the stat utes bearing upon this point, with full citations of cases. An analytical table of statutes precedes the text, upon the preparation of which much care has evidently been bestowed. The work will be useful to all lawyers desiring information on this important subject.
CODE PRACTICE IN PERSONAL ACTIONS. An ele mentary treatise upon the practice in a civil action, as governed by the provisions of the New York code of civil procedures. Prepared for the use of students, by JAMES L. BISHOP. Baker, Voorliis, & Co., New York, 1893. Law sheep, $5.00 net. The law students of the present day enjoy great advantages over those of a generation ago. Books upon every conceivable subject are prepared by com petent writers for their particular use; and if they do not leave the law schools fully equipped for the prac tice of the law, it must surely be their own fault. This book of Mr. Bishop's is the outcome of a spe cial course of lectures on code practice, delivered by the author at the Columbia Law School, and pre sents in a clear, intelligible manner a full outline of the steps in an ordinary civil action under the New York code. It should be of great aid to all students intending to practise in the New York courts.
THE NOVEL : WHAT is rr? By F. MARION CRAW FORD. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, 75 cents. Mr. Crawford is certainly able, if any one is, to answer the question propounded by the title of this little book; and we think that his ideas as to what should constitute a novel will be accepted as correct by a vast majority of readers. We are glad to see that he looks with little favor upon the " realistic and "purpose" novels. Of the latter he says: "In ordinary cases the purpose novel is a simple fraud,
