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of Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Full and exhaustive annotations are, as usual, a distinguishing feature. Lawyer's Reports Annotated. Book XXI. All current cases of general value and importance decided in the United States, State and Terri torial Courts, with full annotation, by Burdett A. Rich and Henry P. Farnham. A good selection of cases, with full and well considered annotations make this series of Reports of great value and assistance to the profession. The present volume seems in every way up to the standard of its predecessors. Woman's New Opportunity. An address de livered at the closing exercises of the Woman's Law Class of the University of the City of New York, April 5, 1894. By Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1894. Paper. 25 cents. Mr. Thompson vigorously asserts the natural right of women to study and practice law if they choose to do so, but he is evidently not so clear in his mind as to whether they are likely to make successful lawyers. He finds many feminine charac teristics which, while not establishing any insuperable bar to the progress of the woman lawyer, are obstacles to success which must be pushed aside or overcome. The following advice which he gives to the class is equally applicable to lawyers of the male persua sion : — "Give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt, regard him as innocent till he is found guilty, let hearsay testimony find no lodgment in your mind, analyze situations, calculate probabilities, allow for your own and the bias of other people. Form the habit of doing these things." The pamphlet is very readable, being written in an easy, conversational style. miscellaneous. The Aim of Life. Plain talk to young men and women. By Philip Stafford Moxom. Second edition. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1894. This book will prove a help and an inspiration to all who honestly desire to attain more nearly the possibilities of life. The author writes in a spirit of warmest love and tender sympathy for the young, and with a keen appreciation of the trials and temptations which beset them : he wisely counsels

as to what should be done to make life really wortli the living. One cannot read these pages without being the better for so doing; they furnish good wholesome food for both young and old. The topics treated includes "The Aim of Life," "Charac ter," "Habit," "Companionship," "Temperance," "Debt," "The true Aristocracy," "Education," "Saving time," "Charity," "Ethics of Amuse ments," "Reading," "Orthodoxy." The Damascus Road. By Leon de Tixseau. Translated from the French by Florence Bel knap Gilmore. George H. Richmond & Co., New York, 1894. Paper. 50 cents. This is a story of intense interest, powerfully written, and admirably translated. It will hold the reader's attention from beginning to end. The characters are drawn with a master-hand, and the incidents which make up the plot are deeply im pressive. Hypnotic Tales and other tales. By James L. Ford. Illustrated by the Puck Artists. George H. Richmond & Co., New York, 1894. Paper. 50 cents. For the making of a humorous book no happier idea could have been seized upon than that adopted by Mr. Ford in this collection of stories. The obliging a variety of characters, under hypnotic in fluence, to reveal their innermost thoughts, gives the author great scope for the exercise of his original humor and keen satire, and he improves his oppor tunity to the utmost. The tales appeared originally in "Puck" and they are well worth preserving in book form. We recommend them to all who can appreciate genuine wit and who enjoy a hearty laugh. The White Crown and other stories. By Her bert D. Ward. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Boston, 1894. Cloth. S1. 25. Mr. Ward is a story-teller of remarkable power and versatility, and the contents of this volume show the author at his best. Several of the stories have already appeared in print, but the others are, we believe, now first given to the public. The title story, in which the abolition of war is the theme, is skillfully worked up and of great interest. For power and pathos we have rarely read anything equal to "The Semaphore," while "A Romance of the Faith " would of itself entitle the author to a high rank among our writers. Altogether the book is a delightful one in every way, and the seeker for summer reading should not fail to possess himself of it.