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Principles of the Law of Real Property, in tended as a first book for the use of students in Conveyancing. By the late Joshua Williams of Lincoln's Inn. The Seventeenth Edition re-arranged and partly rewritten by his son, T. Cyprian Williams. The Boston Book Com pany, Boston, Mass., 1892. One vol. Law sheep. $5.00 net.

it is likely to do so for a long time to come. This last edition comes from the hands of able editors, and their notes add greatly to its value. In its pres ent form the work is admirable in every respect, and as a working tool for the practising lawyer and guide for law students leaves nothing to be desired. Lawyer's Reports Annotated. Book XV. All current cases of general value and importance decided in the United States, State, and Terri torial Courts, with full annotations by Robert Destv, Editor. The Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y., 1892. $5.00 net.

Although put forward as the seventeenth edition of the late Mr. Joshua Williams's " Principles of the Law of Real Property," this volume is to a large ex tent a new book. The present editor, in view of the great changes in the English law and practice, has practically remodelled the book after a design of his own, and has largely changed and added to the 1 This series of reports continues to maintain the high text. But with all the changes made the work is degree of excellence which has been a distinguishing still essentially an English one, no endeavor having feature from the first volume Mr. Desty's annota apparently been made to make it embrace American tions are as valuable as ever, and his selection of cases reported shows much care and discrimination. law and practice. This edition is of peculiar interest to the profes sion, it being the first law book published under the Pennsylyania Colonial Cases. The administra tion of law in Pennsylvania prior to a. d. i 700, International Copyright Law. One good result of this law should, and we trust will, be the re-editing as shown in the cases decided and in the court of many of the standard English text-books, so as to proceedings. By Hon. Samuel W. Pennymake them applicable to the laws of the British colo packer, LL.D. Rees, Welsh & Co., Philadel nies and the United States as wen as to those of phia, 1892. Law sheep. 33-50. England. Verb. sap. To the legal profession and to the antiquarian as Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of well, this volume will prove of exceptional interest. Personal Property, with reference to the The earliest case reported is that of Noble v. Man, American decisions -and to the French Code which dates back to the 20th day of the 4th month, 1683, or about seventy years before the earliest and Civil Law. Sixth American Edition from cas,e reported in Dallas's Reports. While these the latest English Edition. With American cases may not be of great practical value to the Notes by Edmund H. and Samuel C. Bennett. practising lawyer of the present generation, they cerHoughton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New tainly show that the law, even at that early day, was administered in Pennsylvania with a considerable de York, 1892. One vol. Law sheep. $6.00. gree of technical skill, and was distinguished by a This is one of the few works which have easily spirit of justice and fairness, in both the findings of maintained their position as standard text-books, and I the juries and the decisions of the judges.