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to agencies of this nature. It is a valuable work for the practising lawyer as well as the student. The subscription price for the Monthly is five dollars a year. The American Law Review, September October, contains several interesting articles, the most important of which are Henry B. Brown's admirable paper, read before the American Bar Association, on " Judicial Independence," and "Ballot Reform : Its Constitutionality," by John H. Wigmore. The other contents are : " Of the Certainty of the Law, and the Uncertainty of Judicial Decisions," by George H. Smith; " The Determination of an Agency or Authority," by John D. Lawson; " Condition of the Law as to Combinations," by Austin Abbott; " Acquisition of Citizenship," by Prentiss Webster; " Marriage in Private International Law," by Emile Stocquart.

Johns Hopkins University Studies, seventh series, X.-XI.-XII. This number is made up of a series, of four lectures delivered - before Trinity University, Toronto, Canada, on the " Federal Government in Canada." The author, Hon. John G. Bourinot, is fully qualified to speak with knowl edge upon the subject, being clerk of the house of Commons of Canada, and also author of " Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada " and "Local Government in Canada." The work is one of peculiar interest to American readers, most of whom have but a vague idea of the political history of our sister dominion.

BOOK NOTICES.

Wait on Fraudulent Conveyances. By Fred erick S. Watt, Esq., of the New York Bar. Baker, Voorhis & Co., Publishers, New York, 1889. £6.00 net. This is a new and enlarged edition of one of the most valuable law books published within recent years. The work treats fully, Of the remedies of Creditors instituted to annul Fraudulent Convey ances and recover Equitable Assets, and the Modern Procedure regulating Creditor's Bills, both at law and in equity, and the rules concerning provisional relief, reimbursement, and subrogation are fully

considered. In this new edition numerous additions have been embodied in the original text, a number of new sections have been written, and the citations increased by reference to about one thousand new cases. The work of revision has been done by the author personally, and the treatise bears evidence of the care taken to cover fully and entirely all points bearing upon this important subject. It is a work invaluable to the profession. A Treatise on the Law relating to Executors and Administrators. By Simon G. Croswell, Esq., of the Suffolk Bar. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1889. $6.00. We have received, through the courtesy of the author, a copy of this new book. With so many well-known works upon this important subject al ready in the field, it requires no little courage on the part of an author to present to the profession a new treatise on executors and administrators. From a somewhat hasty examination of Mr. Croswell's book, however, we are confident that it will meet with gen eral commendation, and will rank as a standard work upon the subject. In addition to the citation of statutes in the body of the book, the author has in cluded in an appendix such a selection from the stat utory provisions of the States of the Union as is necessary to supplement the statements of the text. This will be found to be of great assistance to all those who have business in the Probate Courts of other States. The table of cases includes about five thousand references. American State Reports. Vol. VIII. Bancroft, Whitney & Co., San Francisco, 1889. S4.00 net. This admirable series of Reports, selected, re ported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman, has now become so well known to the profession, and has been so heartily endorsed by leading lawyers, that further words of commendation seem almost super fluous. Mr. Freeman brings to the task of preparing these Reports the vast experience gained by his work upon " American Decisions," and as a result we find his selections and editorial work most satisfactory in every respect. In the present volume, which con tains more than 1,000 pages, nearly one hundred and sixty cases, gathered from the reports of decisions in every State of the Union, are reported. The publishers deserve the thanks of the profession for the clear, distinct type, good paper, and gen erally attractive manner in which these Reports are gotten up.