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 2 SOULE & BUGBEE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. of principles is adapted to the statutory law as it now stands, and to the views now held by the courts in reference to Acknowledgments, New Promises, Co-contractors, the Effect of Fraud, etc. The volume will contain the gist of many thousand decisions; giving in the notes, not merely the names of the cases, but a sufficient statement of the points decided in the principal cases, to enable the lawyers who do not have access to large libraries to understand and use the citations without constant reference to the reports. The author, however, has not loaded down his book with unnecessarily long quotations, but has found the happy mean between the brevity which perplexes and the diffuseness which fatigues the reader. The index, which is unusually thorough, includes the notes as well as the text. The table of contents runs as follows : — Chapter I., Statutes of Limitations, What are, History of. General Rules, i ; II., What Actions on Simple Contracts may be barred, 36; III., Specialties, 64; IV., Available for and against whom, 79 ; V., Computation of Time, 95 ; VI., Equity, Adop- tion of Statute by Courts of, 108; VII., Removal of the Statutory Bar, Acknowledg- ments, 128 ; VIII., Acknowledgments in Writing, 207 ; IX., Part Payment, Acknowledg- ment by, 220 ; X., When Statute begins to run. Contracts, 254; XL, Agents, Factors, &c., 276; XII., Bills, Notes, Checks, &c., 288; XIII., Miscellaneous Causes of Action, 313; XIV., Specialties, 339; XV., Torts, Quasi e Contractu, 362; XVI., Executors and Administrators, 3B6 ; XVII., Trusts and Trustees, 413; XVIIL, Mortgagors and Mort- gagees, 442; XIX., Disabilities in Personal Actions, 471 ; XX., Adverse Possession and Real Actions, 498 ; XXL, Dower, 584; XXIL, Effect of Fraud, 586; XXIIL, Mutual Accounts, etc., 594; XXIV., Set-off, 601; XXV., Co-contractors, 605; XXVI., Judicial Process, 619; Appendix of Statutes, 629; Index, 867. Wood on Limitations has been printed in the best style of the Uni- versity Press, and will be bound substantially in law-sheep. The price will be $6.50, net, with 25 cents additional for postage, when sent by mail. NEW EDITION OF ADDISON ON CONTRACTS. The eighth edition of this standard treatise, greatly enlarged and im- proved, will be published in England next month. By special arrange- ment with the publishers, we are printing from advance sheets an American edition, with additional notes by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott. The importance of the subject, and the nuinber of recent decisions, both in England and America, necessitate great changes in each new edition of a work on contracts, and render it desirable for all lawyers in active prac- tice to have the latest edition on their shelves. This will be especially the case with the forthcoming edition of Addison on Contracts. There will be nearly forty per cent, additional English text and notes ; and the American notes of Mr. Abbott, especially on those points where our courts take different ground from those of England, will be lengthy and full of citations of American cases, doing full justice to the reports of all the States. The Index and Table of Cases will comprise both English and American text, notes, and cases. We think ourselves especially fortunate in securing as editor an author of so much experience in the examination and sifting of cases as Mr. Abbott has had. A treatise of such merit as to have reached its eighth edition in England, upon so important a topic, where the laws and decisions of England and America are so similar and of such equal authority, — with the copious citation of recent cases in both countries, under able editorship, cannot fail to find a place in the office of every lawyer in America whose practice allows him to have a working library. Abbott's Edition of Addison on Contracts will comprise two very large octavo volumes. Vol. I. is already in type and Vol. II. is well on the way to completion, so that we can expect to publish the work about Janu- ary 15. Owing to the unusual size of the volumes (which really contain enough printed matter for three volumes) we shall have to charge $12.00, net, for the set. Orders sent to us in advance will be filled with the earliest copies received from the binder. HEARD'S CURIOSITIES AND ODDITIES. The London Law Magazine and Review said of Mr. Heard's " Curiosi- ties of the Law Reporters": "It abounds with neat, epigrammatic utterances. We heartily commend to our readers the perusal of this little volume." The same could be said, with equal truth, of his recent " Oddities of the Law." NEW EDITION OF BEST ON EVIDENCE. A SEVENTH edition of Best's Principles of the Law of Evidence will be published in London early next year. It will be greatly changed and improved from the last English edition, which was issued in 1875. We have made arrangements with the English publishers to receive advance sheets, and to publish from them a reprint in full, with excellent American notes, and references to leading and recent cases in all sections of the country, by Charles F. Chamberlayne of Boston. As the text and notes are now all in hand, and we have actually com- menced printing, we can confidently announce the American edition of Best on Evidence for publication early in February. It is too early to fix the price ; but we will give particulars next month in the law journals, or through another number of this paper. If lawyers who are interested in this announcement will forward their names and addresses, we will send them also a special circular in regard to Best, at an early date. THE BUG CASE. We take the following from Shirley's Leading Cases Made Easy (see advertisement in another column), to show how briefly and pointedly the author epitomizes his cases : — Implied Wairanty on Letting Furnished House, Smith v. Marrable, II M. & W. 5 Brunswick Place, Sept. 19, 1842. " Lady Marrable informs Mrs. Smith that it is her determination to leave the house in Brunswick place as soon as she can take another, paying a week's rent, as all the bedrooms but one are so infested with bugs that it is impossible to remain." And, in pursuance of this determination, the Marrables moved out, and Smith went to law with them, alleging that, as they had taken the house for five weeks they had no business to leave in this summary fashion, bugs or no bugs. The Marrables, on the other hand, successfully contended that it is an implied condition, in the letting of a furnished house, that it shall be reasonably fit for habitation ; and that, if is not fit, the tenant may quit without notice. The famous bug case, after having been spoken disrespectfully of for many years, has, in these latter days, been expressly affirmed by the case of Wilson v. Finch Hatton (2 Ex. Div.), where its principle was applied to stinks arising from defective drainage. It is to be observed that it is only in the case of furnished houses that reasonable fitness is an implied condition. In general, there is no such implied covenant by the lessor of land or houses, nor even that the house will endure during the term. Fraud and deceit, however, may make a difference. LAW AND LAWYERS IN LITERATURE. (NEW.) Under this title we shall issue, on the 15th inst., a new book by Irving Browne, well known throughout the United States as editor of the Albany Law Journal and The America7i Reports, and author of " Short Studies of Great Lawyers " and " Humorous Phases of the Law." The design of the book is to show how the law and lawyers have been treated in litera- ture by historians, novelists, poets, moralists, essayists, satirists, etc. The author has gone over the field of literature from the earliest days to the present, and has formed a volume which, we think, will be at once novel, interesting, and instructive, to laymen as well as to lawyers. Among the curious points of the book are a chapter of legal epigrams, one on im- aginary trials, and another on law students. The author has interspersed and connected the extracts with comments, explanations, and illustrations, in his well-known vein. We venture to say that the work will appeal not only to scholars, but to those seeking merely for recreation. Price, in cloth, $1.50, net. A few copies have been printed on heavy paper, and bound handsomely in half calf, to sell for $3.00 7iet.