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 8 SOULE'S LEGAL GOOD LAW MAGAZINES. Every lawyer's office is so swamped now-a-days with a torrent of weekly " Reporters," that he needs a life-raft of more restful literature to climb upon when he wishes to take breath, and escape for a while from this flood of case-law. In such an emergency he should have at hand for idle reading something like Pump Court, The Temple News- paper AND Review, a quarto monthly periodical full of pungent para- graphs about law, lawyers, courts, decisions, appointments, deaths, politics, — the whole gamut of a lawyer's office chat. It is entirely English, to be sure ; but there is nothing of the sort in this country, and it is nearly all interesting to us, especially the portraits of eminent judges and barristers, and of the litigants in such celebrated causes as the Crawford-Dilke trial. There are four volumes now completed, to be had, in cloth binding, for $2.50 per volume. Subscription price, $2.00 per year. For Sound and Sensible Reading, — The Law Quarterly Review, an English magazine established in [885, and edited by Prof. Frederic Pollock. As the New York Nation says, this quarterly " gives ex- pression to the very best legal learning and thought of the present day. There is no law journal within our knowledge that represents the higher walks of legal study with anything like the ability of the Law Quar- terly." Among American writers who have already contributed to the Law Quarterly Review are Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Melville M. Bigelow, and James Schouler. The price is modera'e. Subscription, g.2.75 per year ; the two bound volumes, in sheep or half calf, $y.oo, both If these are too English, an excellent magazine to take is The A.meri- CAN Law Ri'.view, which all lawyers must know favorably by reputation. It is now published bi-monthly, six numbers per year, under the editor- ship of LuciEN Eaton, Hon. Seymour D. Thompson, and Leonard A. Jones; subscription, $5.00 «t'A The leading articles are timely, practical, and thorough ; the book reviews are sound and impartial ; the '■ Notes " are independent and very readable ; and the other features are equally good. Mr. SouLE is agent for all these periodicals. A LEGAL BURNS. A LITTLE volume entitled " Law Lyrics," by an anonymous Scotch author, has been recently published, and has already passed to a second edition. The title ought to be " A Lawyer's Lyrics," for there is a deal of charm- ing sentimental verse in the volume which has nothing to do with the law. Those verses which are professional are mainly humorous, as witness 'the following extracts: — IN PRAISE OF mK. Of all the drops in bottle corked Of stoneware, glass, or wicker, There 's not a fluid that excels Black ink, — celestial liquor ! With thee I slake my thirsty pen, And make him sing and whistle For Erin's shamrock, England's rose. And Scotland's ragged thistle. Take black ink for a virgin draft. And scarlet to revise it ; Take purple for a hindmost touch, And blue to emphasize it. Then of the various stoppered streams Yield up the laurels triple To mildly flowing blue-black ink, Thou prince of lawyer's tipple ! PUIR CHAP! While merchants mak' fortunes aff pouther and shoddy That wander ayont the saut seas. Life's whirligig wheel tae the wee writer body Git's niony a nip and a squeeze. A lawyer gets mony a slap, Puir chap ! A lawyer gets mony a slap. BIBLIOGRAPHY. And whiles at the end o' a weel-bungled case, Howe'er his account he enlarges. His client will tell the ink-bland tae his face Tae squeak for his fees and his charges. A lawyer gets mony a slap, etc. Aft too, when wi' care he mak's oot his account, Charged up wi" guid fees to the double, The auditor's pen pikes aff half the amount. And adds a guid sum for his trouble. A lawyer gets mony a slap, etc. But still he is free to mak' hash o' a will, And deal oot bad law frae his table, Gie cantie auld wives wrang advice to their fill, And charge them as high as he 's able. A lawyer gets monv a slap, etc. WINNING AND LOSING. Why ballad the glories of battle, And hymn the delights of the chase, Nor sing of the rush and the rattle. The gallop that goes with a case — When advocates storm the defences, And horsey-tails bounce at the bar. While peaceful pens, scoring expenses, Keep stroke with each cut and each scar. C)h, hush thee! and hark to the story Of how, at the end of the day. All covered with ink and with glory. The winner retires from the fray. The loser must finish the inning. Ere off from the field he can draw : There 's nought so delightful as winning, In all the delights of the law. And yet one would think, as at dinner. The hero would pay for the treat ; But, no ; 't is the foolish beginner Must pay for what caused his defeat. His purse knows no picking or choosing, — 'T is food for each ravenous maw : There 's nought so disgusting as losing, In all the disgusts of the law. A THIRD VOLUME OP EWELL'S ESSENTIALS. Mr. SoULE is glad to be able to announce as in preparation, to be issued in December or January, Vol. 3 of Ewell's Essentials of the Law. This volume, which will complete the Series, will contain an abstract of tlie law of Evidence, founded on Chamberlayne's Edition of Best, of the law of Torts, founded on Pollock ; and of the law of Real Property, founded on Williams. The two volumes already published are well known to students and prac- titioners. Vol. I, The Pocket Blackstone, which embodies all of Blackstone's Commentaries which are of practical value at the present day ; and Vol. II., containing abstracts of the law of Contracts, of Pleading, and of Equity, are in use in nearly every law school in Amer- ica, and afford for students the concise statement of legal principles which help them both in study and in review before examinations. When the third volume is ready, the completed series will cover a good course of law studies. MASSACHUSETTS CORPORATIONS. Mr. Soule hopes to publish early in 1888 a manual containing the Statutes of Massachusetts relative to Business, Charitable, Educational, and Religious Corporations, with notes of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and Forms and Instructions for Organization and General Management, by Henry H. Sprague, Esq., of Boston. Some of the principal notes will be on the subjects of Incorporation, Organization, Meetings, By-Laws, Records, Officers, Accounts, Transfers, Convey- ances, Bonds, Proxies, Increase and Reduction of Stock, Certificates and Returns, Taxation.