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 2 SOULE & BUGBEE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. A SUPPLEMENT TO ELEVENTH PETERS. In preparing notes to the United States Supreme Court Re- ports for the " Lawyers' Reference Manual," we found in the catalogue of the New York Law Institute the title "Baldwin's Appendix to ii Peters, Phila., 1837." No other catalogue or bibliography mentions this supplement, and for a long time we were unable to find it. It occuiTed to us, finally, that the volume so described might have been published under some other title; and on looking through the old booksellers' lists, we found " Bald- win's Constitutional Views, Phila., 1837." This book was pro. cured, and, upon examination, was found to be the one refen-ed to in the New York Law Institute Catalogue. Its full title is " A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government of the United States." The first one hundred and twelve pages are occupied by the " View," but the rest of the volume contains the concurring opinions of the author (Hon. Henry Baldwin, one of the Judges of the United States Supreme Court), in four important constitutional cases, in which the de- cision of the Court, and dissenting opinions, v^ere printed in 1 1 Peters. On page 113 of the " View "Judge Baldwin states that he had intended to publish his concurring opinions as an appendix to 1 1 Peters, but finding that such a course would delay the publication of that volume he determined to print them in the present form. The title in the New York Law Institute Catalogue is, therefore, substantially correct, and " Baldwin's Constitutional Views" can properly be designated and labelled as a " Supplement to 11 Peters," and placed on the shelves after that volume. A NEW WORK ON EQUITY PLEADING. To supply the need of a modern and concise work on this subject, which can be put into the hands of a student or an in- experienced practitioner, Mr. F. F. Heard is preparing, and we shall publish in June, a compact exposition of " The Principles and General Rules of Equity Pleading; " together with a collection of forms, to illustrate the text of the book. Mr. Heard is known to be excellent authority on the subject of Pleading. His manuals of Civil Pleading and Criminal Pleading have found a large sale not only among students, but even among lawyers of experience and practice. This forthcoming work on Equity Pleading will come well commended by the success of its predecessors. Its price we cannot fix so far in advance, but it will probably be $2.00 in cloth, or $2.50 in sheep, both neL Ad- vance orders will be filled promptly upon publication. A NEW TREATISE ON SUBROGATION. Although the doctrine of Subrogation was originally merely a minor subdivision of equitable practice, its importance has of late years very much increased. Its principles are now of very general application among successive claimants of the same property by mortgage, lien, or purchase; among principals and sureties; sureties who successively become liable for the same debt; co- sureties; joint-debtors; and persons whose property is held to answer for the same debt or burden, whether the obligation, upon themselves or their property, is primary or secondary. Its doctrines are also frequently resorted to for the purpose of settling the rights of successive parties to bills and notes; of executors, heirs, devisees, legatees, and other persons interested in the administration of a decedent's estate. It is also of general application in the law of in- surance, not only for the benefit of the insurer himself, but also for the protection of persons who have conflicting rights to the property insured. In short, the complexity of modern affairs has so far developed this topic of the law, as materially to enhance its comparative im- portance. With the exception of a brief treatise by Mr. Dixon, which cited but few authorities, and has been long out of print, the subject has not hitherto received independent consideration, nor is it adequately treated in any of the existing elementary books. This serious gap in legal literature we shall fill by the pub- lication, about May 25th, of a treatise on "The Law of Subro- gation," by Henry N. Sheldon, Esq., of the Boston bar. In a volume of nearly four hundred pages, the author has given full consideration to the various applications of the doctrine of Subro- gation, and also to the substitution of the creditor to the rights and immunities of his debtors for the better security of his demand. Mr. Sheldon's citation of authorities is very full, and his statements 0/ the law are concise and clear. The price of the volume will be $3.50 nei; on receipt of $3.70, we will send it, post-paid, by mail. REPORTS EARLIER THAN THE YEAR-BOOKS. The earliest printed cases decided in English Courts are con- tained in Law Cases, William I. to Richard I. ("Placita Anglo-Normannica"), and were extracted from the original rolls in England by Professor Melville M. Bigelow, of Boston Univer- sity, — author of several excellent law-books. The oldest English cases are thus presented in useful form by an American scholar, a remarkable contribution for the younger country to make to the literature of the older. The cases are printed in Latin, freed from the abbreviations which render the written text unintelligible to modern readers, and head-notes in English are prefaced to each case. A long and interesting introduction discusses early English procedure, and the origin of English law. These " Law Cases " should find a place in every jDublic library, and on the shelves of every lawyer who has literary tastes, or a reverence for the antiquities of his pro- fession. Price in handsome black cloth, $4.00 nei; in half English calf, $5.50 neL 25 cents additional for delivery by mail. EWELL'S " ESSENTIALS OF THE LAW." The multitude of students who enter on the study of the law, every year, in law schools, and the still larger number who com- mence to read in lawyers' oflices, find the need of some abstracts, or "review" books in addition to the large and often diffuse treatises, — written mainl^^ for use in practice, — which are put into their hands to study. There are now two or three such com- pendiums, but none of them were prepared by a practical instruc- tor in the law, who could know, by long experience, just what portions of the larger works are essential to the training of the student, and just how to present them so as to insure a permanent impression on the memory. Prof. M. D. Ewell, of the Union School of Law in Chicago, known to the profession by several published treatises, and better known to the graduates of that school as a peculiarly successful teacher, is preparing a series to be called " Essentials of the Law," which will include a brief but thorough summary of the principal