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topics treated are the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, old Maryland homes and ways, the Italian Premier Crispi, science and religion, the labor question (in Kipling's story); the painter Van Dyck, with three beautiful examples of his work engraved by Cole; Christmas poems by George Parsons Lathrop and Julia Schayer; Christmas stories, by Ruth McEnery Stuart, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Grace Wilbur Conant; Christmas pictures by Dagnan-Bouveret, Scheurenberg, Von Uhde, Wenzell, and F. S. Church; and other stories by Nannie A. Cox, Lucy S. Furman, Kate Chopin, and George A. Hibbard, besides serials by Marion Crawford and Mrs. Burton Harrison, in all ten pieces of fiction.
BOOK NOTICES.
Law.
American Cases on Contract. Arranged in accordance with the analysis of Anson on Contract. Edited by Ernest W. Huffcut of the Cornell University School of Law, and Edwin H. Woodruff of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Banks & Brothers, New York and Albany, 1894. Law sheep. $6.00 net.
The students in our law schools are receiving special attention at the hands of our law writers, and every subject comes in for its share of illustration in the way of " Selected Cases."
This volume of Cases on Contract is intended to accompany Anson on Contract, Lawson on Contract, or other elementary works, or to be used in connection with lecture courses, or without either text or lectures, as the teacher or student may desire. The cases have been selected with special reference to the needs of law students, and are intended to illustrate the essential principles of the law of contract. Where these principles are well established the editors seek by the cases to present the principles in concrete form, illustrating and applying them. Where the principle is in dispute or doubt cases are given illustrating and discussing the question as viewed by different jurisdictions, and notes are appended directing attention to other and complete authorities.
American cases have been printed to the exclusion of English cases, because it is believed that our own Federal and State Courts have examined and decided with equal ability, and for us higher authority, most of the principles applicable to the law of contract; and also because there are already enough available collections of English cases. The aim of this compilation is to present a collection of American cases fully illustrating the subject of contract.
The Study of Cases. A course of instruction in reading and stating reported cases, composing head-notes and briefs, criticising and comparing authorities, and compiling digests. By Eugene Wambaugh, LL.D., Professor of Law in Harvard University. Second edition. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1894. Cloth. $2.50 net. Sheep. $3.00 net.
The purpose of this volume is an admirable one, the author's endeavor being to instruct law students, by practice, rather than by precept, how reported cases should be read, digested, criticised and com pared. Too little attention has heretofore been paid by our law teachers to this important subject, and as a consequence young lawyers have entered upon the practice of their profession laboring under a great disadvantage when it came to the analyzing and comparison of cases.
Mr. Wambaugh's volume is divided into two books. Book I. is devoted to a general consideration of the study of cases, and Book II. to cases for study. The student is urged, after a careful reading of the first chapter, to plunge at once into the cases printed in the second book, for by actually studying cases, and not by reading about the proper way of studying them, one best learns how they ought to be treated. Mr. Wambaugh has done his work thoroughly, and yet by his clear and concise statements has kept his matter within reasonable limits. We know of no book which will give the student more valuable aid in his preparation for practice, and even veteran practitioners will find much in its pages well worthy their attention.
Courts and Their Jurisdiction. A treatise on the jurisdiction of the courts of. the present day, how such jurisdiction is conferred, and the means of acquiring and losing it. By John D. Works. Robert Clarke & Co., Cin cinnati, 1894. Law sheep. $6.00.
Judge Works gives us in this volume a very clear and concise treatise upon the subject of jurisdiction, one which we are confident will prove to be exceedingly useful to every practising lawyer. The author is not a superficial writer, but he goes to the very root of the matter in hand, and finds a reason for every why and wherefore, if there is one to be found. The arrangement of subjects is excellent. The treatise first discusses the general principles affecting jurisdiction in all classes of cases, then follows an inquiry into the means of acquiring and losing jurisdiction, including the issuance and service of process: next, the different classes of cases, writs, and proceedings, involving questions peculiar to themselves, are taken up separately and considered in a careful and thorough
