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208 BOOK NOTICES.

NEGLIGENCE OF IMPOSED DUTIES: CARRIERS OF PASSENGERS. By CHARLES A. RAY, LL.D., ExJustice of Supreme Court of Indiana. Lawyers' Co-operative Company, Rochester, N. Y., 1893. Law Sheep. $6.50 net. We had occasion some time since to notice the first volume of this series on " Negligence of Imposed Duties," by Judge Ray, his subject then being " Con tractual Limitations." The present volume covers a field of more general usefulness, and, judging from a careful inspection of the book, it bears out the pub lisher's claim that it is " the most exhaustive presen tation of the law of carriers of passengers ever offered the profession." Judge Ray's work has been thor oughly and conscientiously performed, and the result is a succinct and comprehensive statement of the pre vailing law upon the subject. We heartily commend it to the profession.

THE POCKET LAW LEXICON, explaining technical . words, phrases, and maxims of, the English, Scotch, and Roman Law. To which is added a complete list of Law Reports, with their ab breviations. Third edition, revised by Henry G. Rawson and James F. Remnant. Stevens & Sons, Limited, London, England. 1893. Cloth, $2.00. This little volume contains in a convenient form all the legal words and phrases to which a lawyer, in the ordinary course of his practice, would have need to refer. It admirably fills the place of the larger and more expensive Law Dictionaries. The list of Law Reports with their abbreviations is a valuable feature of the work.

MARRIAGES, REGULAR AND IRREGULAR, with lead ing cases. By an advocate. William Hodge & Co., Glasgow, Scotland, 1893. This little work is intended rather for " persons about to marry "than for the legal profession It. however, contains much of interest to the lawyer, and furnishes a fund of information regarding banns and other necessary formalities required for regular marriage in Scotland. Aside from its legal value, the book affords some very interesting reading.

THE STORY OF JOHN TRFVENNICK. By WALTER C. RHOADS. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, $1.00. This is a very readable story of English life. The hero being badly in debt is tempted into smuggling

as a means of raising the wherewithal to rescue him from pecuniary embarrassment The result is that he is discovered in his crime and ordered from his father's house. This proves to be the making of him : and the story ends with the reconciliation of father and son, and the hero's union to the girl who had remained faithful to him through all his dark days. «

A ROMAN SINGER. By F. Marion Crawford. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, $1.oo. All of Mr. Crawford's writings have a peculiar charm, but none of them are more delightful than this story of a Roman Singer. As with so many of his books, the scene is laid in Italy, and the pages are filled with the spirit of poetry and passion of that sunny clime. In these days of cheap sensational novels, it is truly refreshing to take up a book like this, in which the characters are real flesh and blood and not mere puppets. We assure those of our readers who have not read " A Roman Singer " that they have a real treat in store for them.

THE REAL THING, and other Tales. By Henry James. Macmillan & Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, S 1.oo. This is a charming collection of short stories by Mr. James. All of them are written in his best vein and in the choicest English, of which he is so thor oughly a master. The title-story is a masterpiece of pathos and humor, and equal, we think, to anything that has come from his pen. The other contents are " Sir Dominick Ferrand," " Nona Vincent," "The Chaperon.'' and " Greville Fane."

THE MARPLOT, by Sydney Rose Lysaght. Mac millan & Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, $1.oo. A MERE CYPHER. By Mary Angela Dickens. Macmillan &- Co., New York, 1893. Cloth, $1.00. Of these two novels the least said the better. They arc both unhealthy in tone, and without redeem ing literary merit. In one, a woman, through her love for a reformed inebriate, kills her husband to prevent his injuring the said inebriate's reputation; and in the other, a young fellow marries a circus per former, and then finding that she has or should have been married to another man, deserts her, and meets another young woman who is quite willing to live with him as his wife, even after she is aware of his being already married. Both these tales are the I veriest trash.