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 CHI America. It is a laborious and comprehensive collection and analysis of Statutes and Decisions, and is not equalled in the variety and extent of its learning by any similar production in our own or in any language. Like most other of Mr. Chitty's productions it is eminently practical, which has rendered it a deservedly popular work with the profession. Most elementary writers upon Bills and Notes, for the past ten years, have availed themselves of Mr. Chitty's labors, and no writer more freely than Mr. Justice Story. By some of the profession Mr. Chitty's plan of combining the law relating to Bills and Notes is thought to be a defect which the late Judge Story endeavored to obviate by treating of these subjects in distinct works. If we may judge of the value and esteem in which a book is held by the number of editions it has passed through, Chitty on Bills is not surpassed by any modern legal publica- tion, since there have been no less than nineteen editions of it in Eng- land and America, since its first publication in 1799. The author was assisted in editing the last English edition by J. W. Hulme. The first American were reprints of the first English editions, 8vo., Philadelphia, 1803-7. In 1809 and 1819, it was edited by the late Judge Story, and since that time the American editions have been reprinted from the last English with notes of American cases, by E. D. Ingraham, T. Hunting- ton, P. O. Beebee, and 0. L. Barbour. The last American, from the last English edition, contains the notes of all the American editors. 4 Jurist, 954; 1 Legal Reporter, 103; Pref. to Byles on Bills; 3 Kent's Com. 127. CHITTY, JOS. The Practice respecting Amendments of Variances pending a Trial at Nisi Prius, or before a Sheriff, and Observa- tions upon the necessity for extended liberality in such Amend- ments, or such alterations in allowing several Courts, Pleas, &c. 2d ed. 8vo. London. 1834. . A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law, com- prising the Practice, Pleading, and Evidence in Criminal Prose- cutions, with a copious collection of Precedents. 2d ed. 4 vols. Svo. London. 1836. 4th American, from the last London edition. With notes and corrections by R. Peters and T. Hun- tington. To which are now added Notes and References to the Cases decided in the Courts of the United States and of the several States, to the present time, as well as to the late English decisions. By J. C. Perkins. 3 vols. Svo. Springfield. 1841. This is one of the author's best productions. It has had an extended circulation throughout the United States, and has hitherto been more generally used than any other book upon criminal law. Hall's Journal of J. 227 ; 16 A. J. 371 ; (25) 494. 192