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 SOULE & BUGBEE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 5 the development of which that law has reached its present point.— Boston Daily Advertiser. The new method of legal study at the Cambridge Law School is well illustrated in this book. The volume contains a great deal of valuable discussion and suggestion in the form of very compendious notes to the cases. The method of studying law by going to the original authorities, instead of taking the principles at second-hand from text-books, has now made such headway at Cambridge that it is likely to spread to the other law schools of the country. There is no doubt that it is the true and only wav to gain an understanding of the common law. — Nation (New York). We have nowhere seen a more interesting, or, we believe, more thorough, collection of cases upon the subject. — The Central Lavj yournal. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. " The Laws of the Commonweahh of Massachusetts, relating to Marriage and Divorce, embraced in the Public Statutes, with a full digest of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, supple- mented by copious extracts from the opinions of the Court in im- portant cases, together with notes, comments, and forms of plead- ing. By L. S. Fairbanks, Counsellor-at-law." [Cloth, $i.oo net], — is the title of the new edition of a work which is " not only indispensable to lawyers who attend to divorce cases ; but is also of interest to all who desire to understand the much-vexed social problem agitated each year in public gatherings and before com- mittees of the Legislature. . . . ISIr. Fairbanks has so tersely and yet clearly set forth the whole law of the subject that it leaves comparatively little labor for the student, and the publishers have shown such excellent taste in the preparation of the book that it cannot fail to meet a hearty welcome." — Boston Trajiscript, March 9, '82. IMPORTANT ENGLISH STATUTES. We call especial attention to a book entitled " A Collection of Important English Statutes, showing the Principal Changes in the Law of Real Property, together with some other Enactments of Common Reference." [Royal 8vo, 12S pp. Cloth, $1.25 fiet.' In this book an attempt has been made to embody in a conven- ient form the most important of those English statutes which, passed before the establishment of the colonies, form to-day part of our law, and such subsequent enactments as have had, through their direct or indirect adoption, the greatest influence on the case law of this country. ,As the English Statutes are only to be found in the large State and bar libraries, and even there only in cumbrous form, not easily consulted, this collection has found a sale, not only among students, for whose use it was compiled, but also among practising lawyers. A distinguished teacher and writer, connected with one of our leading law schools, says : " Your collection of English Statutes has captivated some of our students, and I think a club has been formed to buy some of them. It is just what I have long wanted." NOTES ON LAW-BOOKS. Messrs. T. & J. W. Johnson & Co. have reduced the price on their English Common Law Reports, il vols., to $362; and on the English Exchequer Reports, 47 vols., to $125. The Third Edition of Jones on Mortgages. 2 vols. 8vo. 850 pp. Each is now ready. The New, Third Edition of Daniel on Negotiable Instruments, thor- oughly revised, much enlarged, with all the latest cases cited, will be published in a few weeks. Sedgwick and Waite on Trial of Title to Land, on which Arthur G. Sedgwick and Frederick S. Waite have been engaged for several years, is now going through the press, and will be ready in a few months. It is intended for use in every State in the Union. American Probate Reports. Encouraged by the success of the first volume, the publishers will soon commence a second, giving the most recent cases on Probate Law, Law of Wills, and kindred subjects. Burrill on Voluntary Assignments is undergoing revision, and a new edition will appear in the fall. Flanders' Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court is, as the North American Revie-jj well says, "a work of no ordi- nary interest, and of far more than ordinary trustworthiness." Six editions of Abbott's Trial Evidence have been called for in about twenty-two months — which is trial evidence of its success among the legal profession. Crocker's Notes on the Public Statutes of Massachusetts is a most use- ful book, not only to lawyers, but to business men who have occasion to consult the laws. NEW MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES. " The Public Statutes of Massachusetts," as arranged and consolidated by the Commissioners and the General Court, went into effect on the ist of February, 1882 ; and in accordance with the provisions of Chap. 73 of the Resolves of 18S1, our store, No. 37 Court street, has been designated as " the convenient place in the city of Boston where the work may be found for sale " at the price fixed by the Governor and Council, namely, $2.85. It em- braces all the laws of a general or permanent character in force on the first day of January, 1SS2 ; and also the constitutions of the State and the United States ; a table of repealed Statutes, a glos- sary of law terms, and a full analytical index. It is a volume of 1,405, pp., bound in the best law sheep. Third impression now ready. Interleaved copies furnished at special rates. HEARD'S "ODDITIES OF THE LAW." The favor with which this little volume has been received is indicated in the following extracts from excellent critical author- ities : — This book seeks to accomplish for the law what the elder Disraeli did for letters, in his charming " Curiosities of Literature." It is a novel and a useful idea, and executed by one who has touched nothing in either law or literature that he has not adorned. — Boston Transcript. These things do more than amuse an idle moment — more than gratify the taste of the scholar. They fix things in the mind in a way that more serious reading fails to do. I always make my students read A"Beckett's "Comic Blackstone," and note the good it does them. — Win. Henry Rawlc, of Phila. The title does not cover the whole collection, which contains as much wisdom as wit, and overflows with both. • — Boston Daily Advertiser. The completest and most interesting compilation of the kind ever made. — Daily State Gazette, Trenton, N.J. The profession owe you many thanks for the amusement and instruc- tion your books will afiord them. — Judge Appleton, of Maine. Such reading is not merely amusement. Any reader will find that a half-hour with this volume will clear the cobwebs from his brain, and serve as a pleasant relief to faculties jaded by over-strenuous application. — The Central La-M Journal. Full of wise and witty things, not less wise for being witty. It can be read with profit and enjoyment. — Legal Intelligencer, Phila. The " Oddities of the Law," which was published last October, is bound in cloth, and sells for $1.50. We have also published a new revised edition of Mr. Heard's Curiosities of the Law Reporters, at the same price.