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 SOULE'S LEGAL Criminal Statues. — There have been several savage newspaper onslaughts recently on Boston public statues, which ma}' account for this startling title in a recent auction catalogue : " Bishop on Statuary Crimes." A Legal Euphemism. — " Lady" is fast superseding "woman " in our aspiring democratic vocabulary. " Saleslady " has apparently come to stay ; and now a western bookseller advertises in a late number of the Publishers' Circular for " Bishop on Married Ladies," Painful Acciiracy. — A bookseller, who seems to be also a purist, writes thus: " I see you advertise sccond-liand catalogues. If I may not be considered too inquisitive, I would like to ask whether you really mean second-hand catalogues or catalogues of second-hand books." Lord. Cairns' Books. — ^ By a singular chance, part of the miscella- neous liljrary of Earl Cairns has found its way to this country, and is to be sold at auction in Boston next month. There is very little law about it, most of the books being theological ; but many of them have the Lord Chancellor's book-plate, or autograph, or the presentation inscription of the author. The most interesting work of all is " The Grillon Club," — two elephant folio volumes, containing excellent portraits of most of the cele- lirated Englishmen of the early part of this century. There is also a set of all the papers submitted to the arbitrators in the European and Albert Assurance Cases. Mr. Soule will send a catalogue of this auction to any one who is curious about it. Pooh-Bah again. — Where an author is his own publisher, the strug- gle between the modesty of the former and the effrontery .of the latter is often appalling. These qualities have had an unusual tussle over a para- graph in the Preface to the new Catalogue of the Law Department of the California State Library. The puljlisher won the day, as is usual in such encounters, and the paragraph is printed below, despite the blushes and the protests of the author: — " We have received valuable assistance in our labor from that excellent work, The L.^wyer's Reference Manual. It is a mine of information and a marvel of accuracy, and we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to its author, Charles C. Soule." CHITTY'S EQUITY DIGEST. NEW EDITION. Two years ago the publication of a new edition of this excellent Digest was begun, to the great satisfaction of all lawyers who value and refer to tlie English Chancery Reports. Two volumes were issued, and then the work came to a sudden stop. No explanation was made of the cause of this suspension; iDut it is rumored that the editor failed to do his work as promptly as he should, and that the publishers were finally, after inuch trouble and negotiation, obliged to make a change of editors. They decided not to go on with the publication until the entire manuscript was substantially ready for the press; and as the work of compiling so full a digest is enormous, the interval of two years has been occupied in this task. Everything is now ready. Vol. 3 was published in October; Vol. 4 will be ready in January: Vols. 5, 6, and 7, completing the series, will follow as rapidly as careful proof-reading will allow. The magnitude of the work is shown from the fact that the three vob umes already published contain 3,070 large double-column pages, each printed as closely as is consistent with legibility. Each case is set forth with such fulness, — the facts and the points of decision being nearly always given at soine length, — that reference from the Digest to the orig- inal report is only necessary when the case is of evident importance or pertinence. All the preliininary work of examination and exclusion can be done almost as well, and much more conveniently, in the Digest as with the reports themselves. Indeed Chitty's Equity Digest is so full and satisfactory, that one who owns it, and also Mews' Common Law Digest, and the annual supplements, has on his shelves what may almost serve him as a complete set of English reports from 1750 to i885. The two Digests form an excellent companion to the LInited States Digest, and to a good selection of text-books. Considering the amount of law and of printed matter contained, and bearing in mind the usual price of English law books, Chitty's Digest is wonderfully cheap. Although each volume contains the matter of three or more average volumes of state reports, the price is only ,^8. Com- pleted, it will cost $42. As Mews' Digest costs ^56, less than a hundred dollars will purchase what might be considered abridgments rather than digests of all the English reports up to the present year. BIBLIOGRAPHY. RECENT ENGLISH BOOKS. Mr. Soule has imported lots, at the low prices given, of the follow- ing English treatises. The binding is cloth, unless otherwise stated. Prices tiet : — Blackburn on the Contract of Sale. 2d edition $6. 50 Elphinstone on the Interpretation of Deeds. Half calf. . . . 6.50 Farwell on Powers 5 00 Goodeve's Reports of Patent Cases. Sheep 8.00 Harris's Hints on Advocacy. 7th edition 1.50 Harris's Bumpkin's Law Suit (humorous) 1.50 Haynes's Students' Leading Cases. 2d edition 4.00 Lewin on Trusts. 8th edition. Half calf 13.50 MacSwinney on Mines and Minerals 8.co Mews' Digest of Criminal Cases. Half calf 5.00 Monro on the Patents and Trade-Marks Act 3.00 Newson on Merchant Shipping. 2d edition 3.50 Rawson's Pocket Law Lexicon 1.50 Sebastian on Trade Marks. 2d edition 5.00 Slater on Copyright and Trade Marks 5.00 Smith (H. A.). Practical Exposition o£ the Piinci]iles of Equity (an excellent book) 5.00 Terrill on Letters Patent for Inventions 6.00 Trial of the Glasgow Bank Directors 2.50 Trials for Murder by Poison 3.50 A GOOD MAGAZINE FOR GOOD LAWYERS The Law Quarterly Revieav, established in London in 1S85, has just completed its second volume. During its two years of existence it has established a high character, ,and filled a hitherto vacant place in England and America, by pubHshing articles on topics of jurisprudence, legal principles, and legal history, — necessarily slighted by other maga- zines in these days of voluminous and engrossing case law. Among the English contributors to the Review have been the editor. Dr. Frederick Pollock, Sir W. R. Anson, Prof. T.E. Holland, Prof. A. V. Dicey, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Lord Justice Lindley, E. S. Roscoe, M. D. Chalmers, Lord Justice Bowen, and G. W. Hemming; among the American contributors, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Melville M. Bigelow, and James Schouler. The articles have comprised such subjects as Early English Equity, Federal Government, Position and Prospects of the Legal Profession, The Lunacy Laws, Offences against Marriage, Mistake as a Ground of Equi- table Relief, Seisin of Chattels, History of the Law Reports, Jurisprudence in Legal Education, Homicide by Necessity, Section 17 of the Statute of Frauds redrawn and illustrated. Executory Limitations, Liability for Torts of Agents and Servants, Points of Admiralty Law, Unification of the Law of Bills of Exchange, An Experiment in Codification, The Copyright Question, Extradition of Political Offenders, The Transfer of Land, Effect of Mistake on the Delivery of Chattels, Oral Wills and Death-Bed Gifts, Oxford Law Studies, The Mystery of Seisin, and several interesting biographical articles. Not less valuable have been the book reviews, which are unusually thorough and critical. This magazine is an excellent one for a lawyer to take in connection with soine American periodical, and has the merit of being inexpensive. The subscription price is $2.75 net per annum (which includes postage), payable in advance. The third volume will begin with the number for January, 1887. Vols. I. and II. can be bought in handsome half English law calf for $4.00 per volume, or in Aiuerican sheep for $3.50 per voluine, both net. Mr. Soule is the American agent of the Law Quarterly Review. Mr. Stimson's Book Generally Useful. — Besides the special use- fulness of Stimson's American Statute Law to lawyers, it has 'been found to be useful and interesting to general readers and students. Wil- liam E. Foster, the accomphshed librarian of the Public Library at Providence, R, L, writes: — " In our library we have no law department as yet, but we tind such a work as Stimson's American Statute Law useful. One reason is that the first one fifth of the book, dealing with the constitutional law of the State, is needed in connection with the comparative study of institutions, for which our library is much used. Another reason is that many of the questions for which readers come here to consult the Public Statutes of this State are involved with the provisions or requirements of the law in other States. Instances in point are local taxation, the law of inheritance, the law of the solenmization of marri.age, etc."