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In the volume before us the principal addresses besides that of the president, the Honorable Charles F. Manderson, and Mr. Peck's, already referred to, and aside from the papers read be fore the various sections, are by Charles Avery Harriman, Esq., Professor John Bassett Moore, and Richard M. Venable, Esq., on the subjects of " Ultra Vires Corporation Leases," " A Hun dred Years of American Diplomacy," and '• Growth or Evolution of Law," respectively. We note with interest that the next meeting is to be held farther west than ever before, — at Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 21, 22 and 23, 1901. THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS. Volume 76. Containing cases of general value and author ity decided in the Courts of Last Resort in the several States. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. freeman. San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. Law sheep. (1036 pp.) The cases here reported and annotated are from recent volumes of the Illinois, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey (Law), New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (Criminal), Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin Reports. As usual in the case of this series, the notes are excellent, and are rendered the more valuable by refer ences to other monographic notes on trie same general subject in previous volumes. The cases are chosen with good judgment, with a view, we take it, to covering a wide range of subjects; at all events, there is a good deal of variety in the nature of the cases and notes. For example, to speak of the more important notes only, " Insan ity as an Excuse or Defence for Crime "; "Right of Corporations to Assess their Stock holders "; " Republication of Revoked Wills "; "Liability for Negligence and other Torts of Independent Contractors "; " Adverse Posses sion of Public Property "; " Exemption from Service of Civil Process "; " What is Seduc tion," • are some of the questions discussed. RECEIVED.
NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY BULLETIN 54. Sum mary and Index of Legislation by States in 1900. Albany : University of the State of New York. 1900. Paper: 25 cents (172 pp.)
ENCYCLOPEDIC NOTES. The first volume of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure is to cover the titles from A. to Annuities including the following subjects : Abandonment, Abatement and Revival, Abdjuction, Abortion, Ab sentees, Abstracts of Title, Accession, Accident In surance, Accord and Satisfaction, Accounts and Accounting, Acknowledgments, Actions, Action on the Case, Adjoining Landowners, Admiralty, Adop tion, Adulteration, Adultery, Adverse Possession, Affidavits, Affray, Agriculture, Aliens, Alterations of Instruments, Ambassadors and Consuls, Amicus Curiae, Animals, Annuities. If specimen pages are a fair sample of what the work will be, little is left to be desired in the matter of quality. The subjects are minutely and accurately analyzed, the statements of law are clear and concise, and the citations of authorities appear to be exhaus tive. The practice of citing the American decisions, reports and state reports, and the unofficial reports of the West Publishing Company and the Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Company, will lend an addi tional value to the work, as will also the innovation of indicating in the notes all cases containing adjudi cated forms of pleading. Another highly laudable feature of the forthcom ing book lies in the fact that there will be no split ting up of the law along an arbitrary line alleged to divide pleading and practice from substantive law. The whole of each topic will be treated under a single head, and in this way not only will a great amount of duplication be avoided, but many valuable cases will be saved that would otherwise fall down in the splitting process. The publishers count on saving so .much space in this way that they are guaranteeing to complete their set in thirty-two volumes. The work is being carefully and ably done. The subjects are minutely analyzed, the statements of the law are terse and accurate and the citation of authorities is apparently exhaustive. The advantage of treating the practice decisions along with the rest of the law on the subject becomes quickly manifest, and the innovation of indicating in the notes the cases containing adjudicated forms of pleading lends an additional value to the work. Especially striking among the articles already in print is one on " Accord and Satisfaction," edited by Hon. Seymour D. Thompson. If the other branches of the law are treated as fully and ably as this one, it is safe to predict that the Cyclopedia of Law ana Procedure will quickly win a high place in the lawyer's libran- and affections. The publisher is the American Law Book Company, 120 Broad way, New York.
