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Lippincott's. An Unsatisfactory Lover, Mrs. Hungerford (''The Duchess"); Golf (Athletic Series), John Gilmer Speed; The Rustlers (Lippincott's Notable Stories, No. IX.), Alice MacGowan; Progress in Local Trans portation, Lewis M. Haupt; How the Light Came, j. Armoy Knox; An Old-Fashioned Garden, Charles C. Abbott; Expensive Religion, Phil. Stansbury; Why the Body should be Cultivated, Wilton Tournier; A Three-Volume Tract. Frederic M. Bird; Men of the Day, M. Crofton. Review of Reviews. Possibilities of the Great Northwest (illustrated), S. A. Thompson; Inland Waterways for the North west (with Maps), Emory R. Johnson; The Future of Silver Production. E. Benjamin Andrews; The Gothenburg System of Liquor Traffic; Lobengula, King of the Matabele (illustrated). Scribner's. In Camp with the Katchins (illustrated). Col. H. E. Colvile, C. H. Grenadier Guards; The Proud Pynsents, Octave Thanet; Madame Roland (illus trated), Ida M. Tarbell; Glimpses of the French Illustrators, II. (Conclusion, illustrated), F. N. Doubleday; The House of Commons, Augustine Birrell, M. P.; The Picturesque Side (illustrated), F. Hopkinson Smith : Mr. Freeman at Home (illus trated), Delia Lyman Porter; The Copperhead, Chapters XI1.-XIV., Harold Frederic (Conclusion); Education for Girls in France, Katharine de Forest; A Laggard in Love, Martha McCulloch Williams; Historic Moments : The Nomination of Lincoln, Isaac H. Bromley.

BOOK NOTICES.

THE AMERICAN DIGEST (annual, 1893). 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 State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Colorado, United States Court of Claims, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, etc., from Sept. i, 1892, to Aug. 31, 1893, with notes of English and Canadian Cases, Memoranda of Statutes, Annotations in Legal Periodicals, etc., a table of the cases di gested, and a table of cases overruled, criticised, followed, distinguished, etc.. during the year.

West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn., 1893. Law Sheep. $8.00 net. This volume is in every respect all that could be desired for a work of this nature, being in every sense of the word a •'complete digest." -The labor involved in its preparation must have been stupen dous, and yet there is no evidence of the editors having in any way slighted their work. The greatest care and attention has manifestly been bestowed upon it. The arrangement throughout is excellent, and the typographical work deserves a word of commen dation. Good paper and clear type are not always found in our digests, but they are distinguishing features of this volume. The publishers are to be congratulated upon their successful efforts to make this digest of great value to the profession.

A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF QUASI-CONTRACTS. By WILLIAM A. KEENER, Kent Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law in Columbia College Baker, Voorhis, & Co., New York, 1893. Law Sheep. $5.00 net. In substituting the term "Quasi-Contracts " for the term " Contracts implied in Law," Professor Keener has followed the lead of eminent English lawwriters. This treatise exhaustively covers the large class of rights and obligations arising independently of the doctrines of either Contract or Tort. '• It has been usual," says Mr. Maine, in his '• Ancient Law," "with English critics to identify the quasi-contracts with implied contracts: but this is an error, for im plied contracts are true contracts, which quasi-contracts are not . . . A quasi-contract is not a contract at all. The commonest sample of the class is the relation subsisting between two persons, one of whom has paid money to the other through mistake. The law, consulting the interests of morality, imposes an obligation on the receiver to refund; but the very nature of the transaction indicates that it is not a contract." These words of Mr. Maine indicate per haps better than anything we could say the scope of Professor Keener's book. Important as the subject is, no attempt has hitherto been made to treat it ex haustively, and the work should receive a hearty wel come on this account, if for no other reason. It will be found, however, to be a thoroughly practical treatise, written in a concise and clear style, and in every way worthy its learned author's great reputa tion. The contents are as follows: Chap. I., Nature and Scope of the Obligation: Chap. II., Recovery of Money paid under Mistake; Chap. III., Waiver of Tort; Chap. IV., Rights of a Plaintiff in Default under a Contract; Chap. V., Obligation of a Defend ant in Default under a Contract; Chap. VI., Recovery for Benefits conferred at Request, but in the Absence of Contract; Chap. VIL, Recovery for Benefits in