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A Digest of all the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, all the United States Circuit and District Courts, the Courts of Last Resort of all the States and Territories, and the intermediate courts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri, the United States Court of Claims, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, etc., as reported in the National Reporter System, and elsewhere, from Jan. i, 1890, to Sept. 1, 1890. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. Digest Publishing Co., New York, 1890. This volume signalizes the consolidation of the complete Digest with the American Digest; and this union of heretofore conflicting interests must prove to be an advantageous step on the part of the pub lishers, and the profession will also be the gainers. In addition to all the features of its predecessors, the additional features which have heretofore been pecu liar to the Complete Digest, namely, Selected Eng lish Cases, Decisions of the Circuit Courts of Ohio and the County Courts of Pennsylvania, Memoranda of Annotations in various legal publications, and Notes of Current Legislative Enactments, are con tained in this volume. The publishers have wisely concluded to make the Digest cover the court year instead of the calendar year, so that hereafter the volumes will be brought out in the autumn, the time when they are most needed. We have heretofore expressed ourselves warmly in praise of both the Digests, now consolidated into one, and we gladly add another word of commenda tion. The Digest now seems to us to be as complete as it is possible to make it, and leaves nothing to be desired, except in one particular, and that is the type in which it is printed. But larger type is of course out of the question, when in its present form the volume contains nearly 4,500 pages. We wish the new combine every success. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition. With Appendices containing the Treaties and Statutes of the United States re lating to Extradition, and the Treaties relating to the Recovery of Deserting Seamen; and the Statutes, Forms, and Rules of Practice in Force in the various States and Territories relating to the Rendition of Fugitives from Justice as be tween the States and Territories of the United States. By John Bassett Moore, Third As sistant Secretary of State of the United States; Author of a work on " Extraterritorial Crime;" of a Report on Extradition to the International

American Conference, etc. The Boston Book Company, Boston, 1891. Two volumes, lawsheep. Price, $12.00 net. Most lawyers will be more interested in the Inter state Rendition volume of this new treatise, than the Extradition part. Extradition is an extremely interesting subject to politicians and students of international law; and Mr. Moore's position as Assistant Secretary of State lends to his work addi tional interest and authority. But the surrender of fugitives between our own States comes home to the practice of the Bar. " Rendition " (as Mr. Moore calls it in contradistinction to the international term "Extradition ") is an obscure and unsettled topic of interstate law. Each case as it arises is apt to have some novel point, which a sharp lawyer can seize upon to defeat the ends of justice. In this work the learned and experienced author has not only framed an admirably clear and coherent treatise on Extradition, from the American point of view, but he has, for the first time in our literature, given form to the law of Rendition. Taking up leading instances one by one, he discusses the most significant cases exhaustively, disentangling from the mass of authorities the principles which should gov ern the surrender of fugitives or the refusal to sur render them. While Moore on Extradition and Rendition cannot rank, perhaps, as one of the " Essentials of the Law," it certainly takes a high place among the books which every libraryvmust own, and which every intelligent lawyer will be eager to read. A Quaker Home. By George Fox Tucker. Published by George B. Reed, Boston, 1891. $1.50. The readers of the " Green Bag " have already had a taste of Mr. Tucker's delightful literary work in the three or four short articles he has contributed to our columns. There is an indescribable charm in the natural, straightforward manner in which he tells his story; and the reader follows his narrative with a feeling that he is listening to a recital of actual facts in which the author has played a part. In " A Quaker Home " we have an interesting portrayal of Quaker life, and much valuable information is given as to many of the peculiar forms and ceremonies of the sect. The scene of the story is laid in New Bedford, and incidentally some exciting descriptions of whal ing life are introduced. A curious legal question as to the construction of a will will particularly interest lawyers. We will not anticipate the pleasure which the readers of this book will find, by unfolding its plot. Suffice it to say, that the story is one which will amply repay a careful perusal.