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A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property. By James Schouler, LL. D. Third Edition. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1896. Two volumes. Law sheep. $12.00. While this work is well known to the legal profes sion, the practitioner will find in this third edition many important additions which greatly enhance the value of the treatise. The entire work has been per sonally revised by the author. Volume 1 treats of the Nature and General Incidents of Personal Property; the Leading Classes of Personal Property. Volume II, of Title by Acquisition. Gift, and Sale. Mr. Schouler is one of the most satisfactory of our law writers, and his work is always thorough, exhaustive, and throughly reliable. One turns to his books with the certainty that they are something more than mere digests of the law. We heartily endorse this work on Personal Property, and commend it to our readers. The American Digest. (Annual, 1896.) West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1896. x*> sheep. S8.00 net. "Good wine needs no bush." and the American Digest needs no words of praise from us. It is so well known and appreciated by the profession that it is sufficient to merely announce the appearance of another volume. And what a volume it is! Nearly thirty-two hundred pages! If our judicial mills keep on grinding at such a rate, we shall have to have a two- or three-volume digest every year. Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. By R. A. Witthaus, A.M., M.D., and Tracy C. Becker, A.B., I.L.B., and a staff of collaborators. In four royal octavo volumes. Volume IV, Toxicology. William Wood & Co., New York, 1896. The fourth volume of this excellent work is de voted entirely to toxicology and the action and detection of drugs and poisons. The volume is the unaided work of Dr. Witthaus, and the experience of a lifetime in this, his particular field of research, is herein embodied. For breadth of scope, carefulness, wealth of detail, and depth of erudition, the present treatise is pre-eminent, while the author's exceptional opportunities in this line of work have left their impress in the thoroughly practical method adopted. The work, as a whole, is a very valuable addition to medico-legal literature. The Law of Voluntary Assignments, for the Benefit of Creditors, under the New York Statutes. Brought down to date, with Ameri
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can and English decisions. By Russell Headley. With a complete set of forms by Benjamin McClung. Matthew Bender, Albany, N.Y., . 1896. Law sheep. S3.00. New York lawyers will appreciate the value of this work, and will find it of much assistance. It is thorough and complete, and apparently covers every point likely to arise. Handbook on the Law of Persons and Domestic Relations. By Walter C. Tiffany. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1896. Law sheep.
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This latest issue in the " Hornbook Series •" follows the same general plan as that adopted in the previous books of the Series. A concise statement of the law precedes each subdivision of the subject, and is followed and illustrated by a fuller treatment in the subsidiary text. Mr. Tiffany seems to have gone over the ground very thoroughly, and students will find the treatise a safe guide upon the subject. The Law of Horses, including the Law of Inn keepers, Veterinary Surgeons, etc., and of Hunting, Racing, Wagers, and Gaming. By George Henry Hewitt Oliphant. Fifth Edi tion. By Clement Elphinstone Lloyd, B. A., of the Inner Temple. Sweet & Maxwell, London, Eng., 1896. Cloth. $6. 30. This treatise furnishes in a convenient form the law of contracts regarding horses in all their various legal aspects. While •' horse cases " do not, perhaps, play as prominent a part as formerly in our American courts, still they are sufficiently frequent to make a work like this of interest to practitioners. Handbook of the Law of Torts. By William B. Hale, LL.B. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1896. Law sheep. $3.75. This work is practically an abridgment of Mr. Jaggard's two-volume treatise upon the subject. The abridgment has been principally effected by the omis sion of merely cumulative citations and illustrations from text and note. In its present form it supplies the demand for a single-volume work on Torts. miscellaneous. A Year in the Fields. Selections from the Writ ings of John Burroughs; with illustrations from photographs by Clifton Johnson. Hough ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1896. Cloth. For the lover of nature and out-door life the works of Mr. Burroughs possess an indescribable charm.
