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 Legal Bibliography PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED GRATUITOUSLY AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS, By CHARLES C. SOULE, Law Bookseller, 26 Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass. -No. 6. Mr. Soule, in addition to publishing and importing, buys and sells all kinds of law books, old as well as new. September, 1885. CONTENTS. PAGE A Good Magazine to Take 2 American Statute Law 4 Bargains • ■ 5 Choose Good Books i Condition of the Legal Profession .... 6 Eastern Reporter S English Digests 6 Estes & Lauriat (advertisement). . . . S Law Books of Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. . 8 Law School, Boston University S Law School, St. Louis 8 PAGE Law Students, Books for 2 Lenox Academy (advertisement) .... 8 Lippincott Co. (advertisement) 8 Marshall, Chief Justice (with Portraits). . 5 Notes and Queries i Publications of C. C. Soule 3 Recent English Law Books 2 Scraps of Comment and Information. . . z Second-Hand Lists 6 Webster's Quarto Dictionar>' (advertisement) 7 Wood on Kailway Law (New) ... 4 Future numbers of t7iis paper will be mailed, tvithout charge, to any judge, lau i/er, or laiv student who ivill send his name and address to the publisher. CHOOSE GOOD BOOKS. In making up, or adding to, a law library, several questions present themselves, such as, — What topics to cover ? What are the best books on each topic ? If there are several books, is it not wise to take some good book not already in the libraries of your neighbors ? Having one book on a subject, is another, viewing the subject from a different point of view and citing different cases, desirable ? As an assistance to lawyers about to bu}-, the following subjects are suggested, and a book is recommended under each subject. A further description of these books (with prices) will be found on page 3. Evidence. For the principles, by which it is necessary to test all instances, Best ox Evidence stands pre-eminently first ; and Chamberl.wne's Edi- tion of Best is the only one to buy. Contracts. In many points of view, Addison on Contr.'.cts (be sure to ask for B. V. Abbott's Edition) is better than the other books. Executors and Administrators. Schouler is the only American author upon this important and lucrative branch of practice. Railroad Law. No general practitioner can afford to be without a good work on this subject. Wood on Railroads (just out) is the best. Limitation of Actions. Here again. Wood's treatise is the latest and best. Equity. For Equity Pleading, Mr. Heard's brief treatise is the handiest. For Equity Cases, Chittv's Equity Inde.x (new edition in progress) is indispensable. Subrogation. The only book on this subject is Sheldon's. Auctions. Bateman is the only authoi treating on Auctions. Admiralty. Cohen on Ad.miraltv is a late American work. Restraints on Alienation. Prof. Gray has written an e.^cellent treatise on this branch of the law. Law Books described. To learn all about English and American law literature, get the L.a.vver's Reference Manual. Wallace's The Re- porters also gives a delightful account of the old English reporters. Blackstone. The most compact and satisfactory edition is Ewell's. English Cases. For Common-Law cases, get Mews' Common-Law Di- gest ; for Equity cases, Chitty's Equity Index ; for Criminal cases Mews' Criminal Digest. Domestic Relations. Irving Browne's lectures embody the principles of the law on this subject. Study of the Law. See list given elsewhere in this paper. Recreation. Read Irving Browne's Law and Lawyers in Literature, and Shirley's Leading Cases made Easv. Choice of Language. Have Soule's Synonymes always on your desk. Law Magazi ne. If you want sound and improving reading for leisure hours, take the English Law QUARTERLY Review. [Corres/oudeiice as to blind citations, or other matters of interest pertaining to law books, is invited by the publisher.'] Back Numbers. — The last number (5) of Legal Bibliography, with the portrait of Sir Matthew Hale, is still in print, and will be sent without charge to any one who wants it. Large copies (13 inches by iSYz) of the portrait, suitable for framing, can be had for fifty cents. Another International Episode. — The English Law Quarterly Review recognizes the internationality of legal erudition, by including among its leading articles one by Judge Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., of the Massachu.setts Supreme Court, and another by .Melville M. Bigelow, Esq., the author of several well-known American law books. Edition or Addition. — Occasionally a lawyer writes for "the last addition" of some text-book. This would be ordinarily set down as an error, but. may be^ like many colloquialisms and vulgarisms, the survival of a phrase anciently correct. Phillips' Studii Legalis R.A.T10, pub- lished in London in 1675, purports on the titlepage to be, "The Third Addition, Corrected and Enlarged." Prestage v. Langford, 3 Wood. 248. — An eminent judge (who asks that his name be withheld) thus answers the query concerning this citation in the last number of Legal Bibliography: The citation is an error. It should be 3 Wood. 448, tt. ; the 'Wood.' standing for Wooddeson's Lectures. The note is found in the first edition of Woodde- son (1792), but is left out by Dr. Williams in the second (1834). The citation is correct in the early editions of Sugden, but is misprinted in all the later ones." Date of Marshall's Portrait — Can any of our elder readers, or those who are connoisseurs in engraving, say when the side-face portrait of Marshall, on page 5, was taken ; whether the original was a paint- ing or a crayon or india-ink drawing ; who was the artist ; and when and where the engraving was published? Tlie descendants of the Chief Justice, by whom it was kindly loaned for reproduction here, cannot answer any of these questions. Ego et Rex Meus. — The query comes to us: "What do the letters C. R. mean, in the portrait of Chief Justice Hale published with the last number of Legal Bibliography? The Lawyer's Reference Manual gives these letters as the abbreviation of Chancery Reports and Code Reporter, but neither of these quite fits this case."' Carolus Rex, is n't it ? Hale served as Chief Baron and Chief Justice in the time of Charles II. Interesting, but Inexact — Senator Hoar, in his very interesting paper before the American Antiquarian Societ)', on "The Obligations of New England to the County of Kent," says ("p. 16) that " there were but fourteen printed volumes of the decisions of the English courts before 1645, and that the whole of the statutes before the accession of James I. would not equal in bulk the laws of a single session at the present day." This statement is hardly exact, for there had been published, prior to 1645, the Year Books, 10 vols, (first editions. 1561-1619), Plowden, 2 vols. (1571). Brooke's New Cases (157S), Bellewe (1585), Dyer (1585), Keil- wey (1602), Coke. 11 parts (1602-1615). Hobart (1641); in all, 28 volumes of reports. The public statutes to the accession of James I. fill two vol- umes, or 1.260 large pages, of the quarto edition of the English Statutes; and six volumes, or about 3,000 pages, of the octavo edition. The pub- lic statutes for the parliamentary sessions of 1884 comprise only 250 pages ; for 1883 (an umisuaily large volume). 450 pages. ,