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A Treatise on Federal Practice in Civil take their share in paying the cost of advanced legis Causes, with special reference to Patent Cases lation by casting aside their old editions and invest and the Foreclosure of Railway Mortgages. By j ing in the new one. Nor will they much regret this sacrifice when they Roger Foster, of the New York Bar. Second examine Mr. Foster's second edition. He has not Edition. The Boston Book Company, Boston, i only revised and rewritten many of the former chap 1892. 2 vols. Law sheep, $12.00 net. ters, to adapt them to the new law, but he has taken The first edition of Mr. Foster's admirable treatise occasion to add to and strengthen his treatise in other ways. We notice new chapters on Admiralty on practice in the United States Courts was pub lished in 1890. Ordinarily, the author and publisher Practice, on the Court of Claims, and on Private who should venture a second edition of any book in Land Claims. The Appendix of Forms and Stat two years after its first publication would meet the utes is greatly enlarged. Use of the first edition has shown that Mr. Fos execrations of the bar, and find their venture a dead failure. But in this instance Congress interfered to ter's book is in many respects the clearest and the render a new edition essential. The passage of the most practical treatise on equity practice in exist Evarts Act, and the establishment of the United ence. Lawyers who own it certainly have no occa States Circuit Courts of Appeal, nullified and made sion to refer to Daniell or Smith, for the pith of obsolete all existing Federal practice books. If Mr. those books, so far as they are now applicable to Foster wished to remain an authority upon the sub our American equity practice, has been absorbed ject, he had to revise his treatise; if his publishers by Foster. were unwilling to see a rival book supersede theirs, We can heartily concur in what Judge Dillon has they had to face the necessity of throwing away the said of Foster's " Federal Practice," that " it is comprehensive, methodical, and carefully prepared, balance of their first edition, and going to the ex pense of an entirely new book. They met the neces and will prove an excellent guide to the Federal sity as promptly as possible; and the profession must practitioner."