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 CHARLES C. SOULE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. BEST THE BEST. There has been great need of A work in one volume, presenting accurately yet thoroughly the Principles of the Law of Evidence. Best on Evidence has for a long time had a great reputation, but no good American edition of it had appeared until Mr. C. F. Chamber- layne, taking a full reprint of the recent seventh English edition (1883) as a basis, annotated it with especial reference to the needs of our students and lawyers. Following the original idea of the work, — to present prin- ciples, with only sufficient citation of cases to give authority to the state- ment, — Mr. Chamberlayne has carried out the author's idea still further, and more practically ; and has given in every note (so far as possible) a range of the best cases from all the States, so that lawyers in even the smallest and most remote towns can find some report cited which is on their own shelves. The original work is celebrated for its preference of principles to details, for APT illustrations, and for considerations on the weighing of evidence which may be cited as authority to judges or jury. Mr. Chamberlayne's notes elaborate points of peculiar in- terest in America SO fully and so admirably, that Professor Thayer, Lecturer on Evidence at the Law School of Harvard University, and perhaps the most competent authority on the subject in our country, says : " I think that this is the best edition there is of the best elementary work on Evidence." CHAMBERLAYNE'S BEST ON EVIDENCE covers the tvhole subject in one volume, and brinf/s both English and American cases DOWN TO 1883. It offers to the student and to the latvijer a great deal that can be found in no other book. Price in sheep, or in half law calf, $0.00, net. DAMAGES AGAINST A DEAD MAN. In MacColla's " Breach of Promise, its History and Social Considera- tions" (cloth, 50 cents), the following case is printed: — The plaintiff, according to the opening statement of her learned counsel, was a widow of thirty summers. For the early part of the year 1865 she went to live as housekeeper with a Mr. John Robertson, who was then in good circum- stances. This gentleman becoming attached to her, according to the evidence, offered her marriage, upon the promise of which he took advantage of her ; and the lady appeared in court with a small parcel in her arms, which, on close inspection, discovered a little pink heap. The plaintiff was examined, and stated that after she told Mr. Robertson of her condition he promised to take her to London and marry her privately. Early in 1S66 Mr. Robertson was taken ill and soon afterwards died. Though the learned counsel for the defence denied that any promise of marriage had ever been given by the late Mr. Robertson, the chief judge held that the promise had been "amply, abundantly, and incon- trovertibly made out," and so the jury awarded her £200 damages against her deceased lover's estate. EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS. There are very few lawyers who do not find a good portion of their practice under this subject, and yet, until very lately, there has been no American book devoted to it. There have been a few brief local treatises ; there have been chapters in works on the general subject of Wills ; there has been the bulky English work by Williams, reprinted in this country in three volumes ; but there has been no single volume, applicable to all the States alike, upon the law of Executors, until Mr. Schoulf.r published his recent book (Schouler on Bxecutora and Admiuistrators. Price $5.50, net). Having had his attention drawn, in actual practice, to the want which (as the "American Law Review" says) has been keenly felt, of some such book, and having had great experience in law-book writing, the learned author has produced a treatise which is thorough, accurate, and practical. The •' Albany Law Journal " declares it to be " a model at once of comprehensiveness and the exclusion of subordinate matters." The subject of Executors proper is separated from the abstruse topics which pertain to Wills and Testamentary Trusts, and prominence is given to the excellent points of our American probate practice. In making up even the smallest library of standard text-books, to cover general practice, Schouler on Executors should not be overlooked. NEW ENGLISH DIGESTS. Common Law. — The last edition of Fisher's Harrison's Digest was published in 1870, with a Supplement to 1880, and has been reprinted m this country in nine volumes, under the name of "Jacob's Fisher"s Digest." Considerable criticism has arisen on Fisher's methods of digest- ing, and the opinion has been generally expressed that Mr. Mews, who edited the Supplement, was a far better digester than Fisher. The English edition having gone out of print, Mr. Mews has rewritten, rearranged, and brought down to 1884 the whole Digest with its Supple- ments, and the seven large volumes of Mews' Fisher's Digest have just been published in England (in half calf binding) at ^14. This price translated into dollars, with duty added, would make ^85. 00. By special arrangement, however, Mr. Soule is able to offer to American lawyers this excellent edition, bound in half law calf, for $56.00. A small allowance will be made, in exchange, if desired, for the previous edition. Equity. — An unexpected delay has occurred in bringing out Vol. II. of the new edition of Chitty's Equity Digest, — a delay due to the immense accumulation of cases decided since the last edition was issued, in 1853. The second volume is now promised for January, the third for February, and two more volumes are nearly through the printers' hands. When completed, this edition will comprise, in six volumes, a com- plete digest of all the English (and some of the Irish) Equity cases, down to the current year. The price, in sheep or half calf, is $8.00 per volume, net. Criminal. — For the use of lawyers who do not feel able to purchase Mews' Fisher's Digest, the title Criminal Law has been separately printed, under the name of " Mews' Criminal Digest," and is offered in America, in half calf, at $5.00, net NEW ENGLISH BOOKS. BROWNE AND STEWART'S TRIALS FOR POISONING. Cloth, $3.50, net. FRY ON HABEAS CORPUS (Case of Q. v. Batcheldor, 1839). Pamphlet. $1.00, net. GOODEVE'S PATENT CASES. Half calf, ^8.00, 7iet. HARRIS' HINTS ON ADVOCACY. 7th edition. Cloth, $1.75, w^/-. McSWINNEY ON MINES. Cloth, JS.oo, net. MEWS' DIGEST OF CRIMINAL CASES. Sheep, $6.00, 7iet. NEWSON ON MERCHANT SHIPPING. 2d edition. Cloth, ^3.50, net. POLLOCK ON PARTNERSHIP. 3d edition. Cloth, $2.25, SLATER ON COPYRIGHT AND TRADE-MARKS. Cloth, $5.00, net. SMITH ON NEGLIGENCE. 2d edition. Cloth, $3.50, 7iet. SMITH'S PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY. Cloth, $5.00, net. TERRILL ON THE LAW OF PATENTS. Cloth, $6.00, net. WALLACE ON THE ENGLISH PATENT ACT. Cloth, 5^2.50, tut. SCARCE ENGLISH REPORTS. Mr. Soule has in stock prices of which will be given Chancery : Romilly's Notes. Donnelly, 2 vols. V. C. : Maddock and Geldart. Bankruptcy: Fonblanque. K. B.: Cases Wm. I.-Rich. I. Kenyon, 2 vols. J. P. Smith, 3 vols. CP.: Arnold, 2 vols. Drinkwater. Harrison and Rutherfurd. Exchequer : Lane. Price's Notes. Murphy and Hurlstone. Horn and Hurlstone, 2 vols. Hurlstone and Walmsley. copies of the following scarce Reports, on application : — Ecclesiastical: Spinks, 2 vols. Cripps, Church and Clergy Cases. Probate : Searle and Smith. Admiralty : Pratt's Cases of Contraband. Holt's Rule of the Road Cases. Spinks' Prize Cases, 2 parts. Monthly Law Magazine, 10 vols, (with Thornton's Notes of Cases, Ecclesiastical and Maritime). Crown Cases : Lewin, 2 vols. Real Property Cases, 2 vols. Star-Chamber Cases. Common Law and Equity Reports, 6 vols. New Reports, 6 vols. Address Orders, Letters, and Remittances to