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 Rh eral and Business and Private Corporations in force July 1, 1892. By FREDERIC JESSUP STIM SON. The Boston Book Company, Boston, 1892. Law sheep. $6.50 net. Some six years ago Mr. Stimson gave us the first volume of " American Statute Law," which covered those statutes of all the States and Territories relat ing to constitutions, persons, and property. The work was at once recognized by the profession as of the greatest value to the practitioner, and one which deserved to rank among the most important contri butions to legal literature. The present volume, which treats of corporations. is in some respects of even greater value and impor tance than that which preceded it. The corporation interests of this country are enormous, and the litiga tion concerning them occupies a great portion of the attention of our courts. A work therefore giving a clear, concise, and reliable synopsis of the public statutes of this country bearing upon this important interest must be of incalculable value and convenience to the practising lawyer and to the general public as well. The task of compilation and the digesting of the laws of all our States and Territories is a hercu lean one; but if Mr. Stimson has been as successful in this present volume as he was in the first, and we have no doubt that he has, his work will long stand as a monument of careful, painstaking, and discrimi nating labor.

BENCH AND BAR OF CALIFORNIA. History, Anec dotes, and Reminiscences. By OSCAR T. SHUCK, of the San Francisco Bar, 1892. M. Reuben, San Francisco, Cal. Cloth. $5.00. The Bench and Bar of California have contained many distinguished men. Such names as E. D. Baker, Hall McAllister. Ogden Hoffman, and Ste phen ]. Field have a national reputation, and the pro fession throughout the country feels an interest in the history of their career. In the work before us Mr. Shuck has gathered a vast amount of interesting material concerning the leaders of the California Bench and Bar, and in his biographical sketches has interspersed many amusing anecdotes. The result is a remarkably entertaining book, and one which every lover of this kind of legal literature will desire to possess. We are tempted to give extracts from the many good things the work coptains, but we do not wish to mar the pleasure the reader will experience when he peruses this work

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and references to, the judicial decisions of the Courts of Last Resort as to the qualifications, rights, and duties of stockholders, directors, officers, etc. Second edition, revised and en larged. By W. A. CARNEY. Published by W. A. Carney, Santa Paula, California, 1892. Cloth. $1.50. This little volume contains a deal of valuable infor mation for all persons connected with corporations, whether as officers or stockholders. To secretaries of corporations, to whom it is especially addressed, it will prove of great assistance. The numerous forms given will save the experienced much time and labor. The book is tastefully gotten up, and should meet with a welcome from those for whom it is par ticularly designed.

THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS, containing the cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman. Vol. XXVII. Bancroft-Whitney Com pany, San Francisco, 1892. Law sheep. $4.00, net. We cannot add anything to what we have here tofore said of this excellent series of Reports. Admi rable selections and exhaustive annotations make these volumes of great value to the practising lawyer. The present volume contains cases decided in the courts of California, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri. Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin.

THF MISSING MAN. By MARY R. I,. HATCH. Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1892. Paper. 50 cts. The lover of mystery will find all that he can de sire in this extraordinary talc. Hypnotism, mistaken identity, a woman with emerald hair and another woman with a remarkable olfactory sense, are called into play in the working out of the plot : and it is certainlv a great relief to the reader when the mystery is finally solved, and it is really determined who is who.

THE INNS OF COURT AND CHANCERY. By W. J. LOFTIE, B. A.. F. S. A. With illustrations by Herbert Railton. Macmillan & Co., New York. 1893. ¿(7.50. In this superb volume Mr. Loftie gives a most' interesting account of the origin, the architecture.