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 SOULE'S LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. I Eegal ltbltograp|)B. NUMBER EIGHT. DECEMBER, 1886. NOTABLE THINGS IN THIS PAPER. Lawyers will be interested in the announcement of a new treatise on The American Law of Wills, by James Schooler, advertised on page 4 ; in details of information about Stimson's American Statute Law, on inside of last page ; in several lists of Bargains in reports and text-books, on different pages ; and in a faint but weird and striking por- trait of RUFUS Choate, on page 5. REMOVAL TO A CHURCH. For more than two years Mr. Soule has occupied temporary offices in Pemberton Square while looking for quarters large enough for his increasing stock and growing business, near enough to the Court House to be within reach of lawyers, and at the same time sufficiently inexpen- sive to suit the very moderate profits of the law-book business. After long search he has finally secured for his office, salesroom, and storerooms, the whole building known as the Freeman Place Chapel, occupying the centre of the square bounded by Beacon Street, Somerset Street, Ashburton Place, and Bowdoin Street, with entrance at 15 1-2 Beacon Street, opposite the Boston Athenaeum. It is about half way between the present Court House and the State House, and only one square from the site of the new Court House. Up to the present time the Chapel has been used for religious services. It was built in 1848, from plans by Edward C. Cabot, for Rev. James Freeman Clarke's society ; and was sold by them to the Second Church, Rev. Chandler Robbins, in 1850. Relinquished in turn by this society in 1854, it has since been occupied by various congregations, the last occupant being the French Catholic church known as " Notre Dame des Victoires," which has recently removed to a new building on Isabella Street. Freeman Place Chapel is a handsome specimen of the simple Gothic style of architecture. It is 67 feet long. 58 feet wide, 27 feet high to the tie-beams of the trusses, and 49 feet to the extreme height of the open-timbered roof. The nave is 28 feet wide. The side aisles are 16 feet each, divided into six bays by columns supporting the clere-story. Above the bays are high windows, with a large window in the front or south end of the Chapel, admitting ample light. In order to adapt this building to the uses of a bookstore the pews have been removed, and shelving has been built around the walls, and from the walls to the columns, forming of each bay a separate alcove, and giving to the room the appearance of a large library, with the nave or central floor left open for the reception and accommodation of custom- ers. To remedy the plain severity and sombreness which formerly characterized the interior, Mr. Frank Hill Smith, well known for his excellent taste in decoration, has superintended the coloring, producing a warm and cheerful effect which relieves what might otherwise have im- pressed the visitor as the height and vastness of the room. All the space under the gallery in the front of the Chapel has been partitioned off for offices, and the vestry rooms below have been fitted up for the packing, shipping, and storage of books in quantities. In this novel and attractive salesroom Mr. Soule has arranged the books which lawyers commonly use, together with a large collection of rare old books, and of the various branches of legal literature not usually found in law bookstores. It will be his aim to enlarge this stock as opportunities of accumulation offer, until it shall include everything that a lawyer or a law librarian could possibly want, from the second-hand text-books used in the law schools to the rarities of European or even Oriental law literature. Lawyers, judges, law librarians, and law students are cordially invited to visit the Freeman Place Chapel in its new phase. There will be ample room for all visitors. Whoever needs attention shall have it ; whoever wishes to buy will be humored : whoever comes from curiosity, or to while away an idle hour, may sit at the tables, browse in the alcoves, and devour the books unmolested. SPECIAL BARGAINS. The following sets (second-hand, unless otherwise specified) are offered as especial bargains. In most instances Mr. Soule has only one copy of each set, so that those who wish to buy should order at once : — AMERICAN. Connecticut Reports (proper, without Kirby, Root, and Day). 53 vols., with Baldwin's Digest, 2 vols. A fine set ...... .$125.00 Michigan Reports (Walker, Harrington, Douglass, 2 vols., and Mich. I-S3)- 57 vols., good as new 143.00 New Hampshire Reports. Vols, i to 60, except Vols. 45 and 46 ; not uniform, but sound 210.00 New Jersey Reports. Law, 46, and Equity, 39. In all, S5 vols., good ^® "^^v 105.00 New York Reports. Johnson, 20 vols., fair second-hand .... 20.00 Johnson's Chancery, 7 vols., second-hand . . lo.co Cowen, 9 vols., second-hand 9.00 United St.tes Supreme Court Reports. Curtis's Decisions, 22 vols.; Howard, Vols. 18-24; Black, 2 vols.; Wallace, 23 vols.; Otto, 17 vols.; United States Reports (Davis), Vols. 108-117 inclu- sive. In all, 117 vols, in 81, fair second-hand 120.00 United States Digest. Original edition (Equity Digest, 2 vols. ; An- nuals, up to 1869, 29 vols.). 31 vols., and Vols. l to 4 of the New Series. In all, 35 vols., fair second-hand, making a digest of all State and national decisions down to 1873 35-°° Patent Cases. Fisher's Cases, 6 vols. ; Fisher's Reports, i vol. ; Ban- ning and Arden, 5 vols. In all, 12 vols, (usual price $200), fair second-hand 150.00 ENGLISH. Beavan's Reports, Rolls Court. 36 vols., fine condition. (The price of these reports has been, within a few years, glo per volume. They are not stereotyped, and are likely to go up again to some- where near the same figures.) SiSo.oo Octavo Statutes. From Magna Charta to 1S65 (when the Law Re- ports Statutes began). Bound in S4 vols., new half calf. Fine set too. 00 Quarto Statutes, to 1775 (applicable in this country unless specially repealed). 12 vols 25.00 State Trials (Howells). 34 vols. Rough copy 90.00 English Common Law Reports (American reprint, best edition, fine copy). 118 vols., and Index, 3 vols 200 00 Moak's English Reports (reprint of the best cases in the Law Re- ports, from 187 1 to 18S3). 35 vols., and Indexes, 2 vols. Fine copy 60.00 Railw.w Cases. Full set of all the special railway-law reports ever published in England, namely, English Railway and Canal Cases, 7 vols. ; Beavan and Wolford, I vol. ; Neville and Macnamara, 4 vols. 12 vols, in all, new half calf 60.00 The Jurist. Complete. (This very full series of reports from all the courts was discontinued when the Law Reports began, in 1S66.) 55 vols. Fine set 110.00 Vesey, Junior. Surnner's edition. (This excellent edition, with Ameri- can notes by Charles .Sumner, Goodrich, and Perkins, has been, and will undoubtedly be again, very scarce and dear.) 20 vols., fair . 60.00 ALSO, AND ESPECIALLY, A Large Lot of Water-soaked English Reports, which were on the '• Pavonia " when she went ashore off Duxbury Beach. They were under water three days, and are now in the binders hands. If he succeeds in drying and rebinding th em satisfactorily, they will be sound and perfectly legible, though the end leaves of every volume may be stained by water or mould. The binding will be, of course, entirely new. In this condition they will be offered far below the usual market prices. Among them are the best editions of the following reporters: — House of Lords Cases. Brown, 8 vols. ; Dow, 6 vols. ; Bligh, 4 vols^ Privy CouNcrL. Moore's East Indian Appeals. 14 vols. Ch.'^NCEry. Gary ; Freeman ; West ; Ambler ; Barnardiston ; Wilson ; Vesey, Senior. Vice-Ghancellors. Drewry, 4 vols. ; DeGex and Smale, 5 vols. ; Smale and Gifford, 3 vols. ; Kay, I vol. ; Kay and Johnson, 4 vols. King's Bench. Coke, 6 vols. ; Kenyon, 2 vols. ; Wilmot; Harrison and Wol laston. 2 vols. ; Willmore, Wollaston, and Davison ; Willmore, Wollaston, and Hodges, 2 vols. ; Arnold and Hodges. Common Pleas. Arnol 1. 2 vols. ; Hodges, 3 vols. Admir.xlty. Dodson, 2 vols. ; Swabey- By the time this advertisement reaches readers of Legal Bibliog- raphy. Mr. Soule will know the result of the binder's work, and may be able to offer these scarce reports very low.