FAMOUS LEGAL ARGUMENTS. With several cases on Circumstantial Evidence. By MOSES FIELD. E. J. Bosworth & Co., Rochester, N. Y., 1897. Law sheep. $1.00. Mr. Field, in this little volume, has collected some of the notable arguments made by the most dis tinguished lawyers in the United States. The list of advocates whose speeches and arguments are quoted includes such men as Webster, Curran, Pinckney, Beach, etc. The book will prove entertaining, not only to the legal profession but to the general reader as well, and the aspiring advocate will find therein many useful ideas and hints. THE LAW OF SALES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. By FRANCIS M. BURDICK. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1897. Cloth. §2.50 net. In this volume, Professor Burdick furnishes the law stadent with a most admirable text-book upon the law of sales of personal property. Questions apt to trouble and perplex are discussed with a fullness and clearness rendering a mistake on the part of the student almost impossible. The provisions of the Statute of Frauds bearing upon the sale of goods are treated in connection with the common-law topics to which they relate. This method is novel, avoiding much repetition, and giving economy of space and equal economy of time and perplexity to the student, each topic being presented to him as an entirety in stead of in detached and widely separated parts of the book. We unqualifiedly recommend this work to students and to the consideration of instructors in our law schools.
A SELECTION OF CASES ON DOMESTIC RELATIONS and the Law of Persons. By EDWIN H. WOODRUKF. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1897Cloth. £4.00.
This volume brings the collection of decisions upon the subject of electricity down to April ist of the present year, and the series, as a whole to date, fully covers all the law upon the subject and is invaluable to every practitioner. We advise those of our readers who do not possess this work to give it at once a careful examination.
JEWETT'S MANUAL FOR ELECTION OFFICERS AND VOTERS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 5th edition, 1897. By F. G. JEWF.TT, clerk to the Secretary of State. Matthew Bender, Albany, N.¥.,1897. Paper. $1.50. This is a valuable compilation for the voters of New York State, containing, as it does, the general election law, town meeting law and provisions relat ing to school meetings. It also includes the provisions of the penal code, general laws and constitution of the State of New York relating to elections and election officers. A number of valuable annotations, forms, and instructions are added.
A MANUAL OF LF.GAL MEDICINE. By JUSTIN HFROLD, A.M., M.D. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1897. Cloth. In preparing this work the author has endeavored to lay before medico-legal students the great princi ples of the science and the leading facts which serve for its foundation. To do this he has condensed into a comparatively small space all the important facts in more elaborate works and added thereto considerable original material. All that is practical and useful seems to have been inserted, and all immaterial mat ter dispensed with. The result is a work in every way admirably adapted to the students' and practi tioners' need«.
This selection of cases has evidently been prepared with great care, add almost every point likely to arise in the law of domestic relations, etc., seems to be fully covered. The work has already been adopted as a text-book by Cornell University, and its excel lence certainly demands a careful consideration of the work by our other law schools.
ROBINSON ON GAVELKIND : The Common Law of Kent, or the Customs of Gavelkind, with addi tions relating to Borough-Knglish and similar Customs. Fifth edition. By CHARLES I. ELTON and HERBERT J. H. MAC-KAY, LL.B. Butterworth & Co., Ixmdon, England, 1897. Cloth.
AMERICAN ELECTRICAL CASES. Vol. VI, 1895-97. Being a collection of all the important cases (except Patent Cases) decided in the State and Federal courts of the United States from 1873 on subjects relating to the Telegraph, the Telephone, Electric light and power, Electric railway and all other practical uses of Electric ity. With annotations. Edited by WILLIAM W. MORRILL. Matthew Bender, Albany, N. Y., 1897. Law sheep.
The original edition of this work, published in 1741, was esteemed by the lawyers of that time as "a very excellent law treatise comprehending in general everything relating to its subject." To the lawyer of to-day it is valuable as giving the fullest and clearest history of the curious customs prevailing in Kent even before the Norman conquest and known in later times as the customs of gavelkind. The book is of great historical value and the publishers have done the profession a service by bringing out this new edition.
