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 Rh library of the Harvard Law School, entitled " Anony mous Reports, temp. Eliz. and Jac, Vol. II. Tables for Ascertaining the Present Value of Vested and Contingent Rights of Dower, Courtesy, Annuities, and of Other Life Es tates, Damages for Death or Injury by Wrongful Act, Negligence or Default. Based chiefly upon the Carlisle Table of Mortality. Computed and compiled by Florien Giauque, A.M., and Henry B. McClure, A.M. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincin nati, 1894. Law sheep. $3.oo.

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John Home Tooke, Chief Justice Willes, Sir Bar tholomew Shower, Lord Chief Justice Holt and a host of others too numerous to mention. The lover of rare old portraits will find a perfect treasure-house in these volumes, and the mere sight of the work will tempt every lawyer to practice the greatest self denial in other matters in oftler to be come its happy possessor. Ourpraise may seem extravagant but it is fully war ranted, and our opinion will be more than sustained by anyone who examines Mr. Cockcroft's work. Three volumes are now ready, and we are promised the remaining three at an early date.

This work is made up entirely of tables for ascer taining the present value of contingent life estates, including inchoate rights of dower and courtesy, and will be of much assistance and value to all those who have occasion to use them. The greatest care has been taken by the compilers to insure the accuracy of the tables, and they can undoubtedly be fully relied upon.

Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 'XXIII. All current cases of general value and impor tance decided in the United States, State and Territorial courts, with full annotation. By Burdett A. Rich and Henry P. Farnham. Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Co., Roch ester, N. Y., 1894. Law sheep. $5.oo.

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. From the Norman conquest till the death of Lord Tenterden. By John, Lord Campbell. New and revised edition, with illustrations, and numerous annotations. Edited by James Cockcroft. Edward Thompson Co., Northport, Long Island, N.V., 1894. Six volumes. S30.oo. ($5 a volume.)

There seems to be no falling off either in quality or quantity in these Reports. The selections are good, the annotations very full, while the general index to opinions, notes and briefs, is a complete digest in itself, enabling the reader at a glance to familiarize himself with the contents of the volume.

We take up this work with a feeling that words are almost inadequate to express our unbounded delight and admiration. No such superb contribution to legal literature has ever before been made. Each volume is filled with rare and interesting portraits and illustrations, while paper, typographical work and exquisite binding all combine to render the pub lication a very triumph of the book-maker's art. With the work itself all students of the lives of great lawyers are familiar, and with the illustrations, which Mr. Cockcroft has spent years in collecting, the pres ent edition possesses an almost inestimable value. In the three volumes now ready (the succeeding three are in press and will appear shortly) may be found portraits of John, Lord Campbell, Sir William Gascoyne, Henry V., Henry VII., Cardinal Woolsey, Thomas Cromwell. Sir Thomas Moore, Henry VIII., Sir Walter Raleigh, George Coke, Sir Edward Coke, Lord Bacon, Francis Bacon, John Selden, John Pym, Chief Justice Crewe, Sir Harry Vane, Sir Matthew Hale, Roger North, Titus Oates, Algernon Sidney, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Sir George Jeffreys, Lord Somers, Sir Thomas Jones, Lord Raymond, Sir Robert Walpole, Chief Justice Lee,

The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law, Vol. 25. Compiled under the editorial supervision of Charles F. Williams, assisted by Thomas J. Michie. Edward Thompson Company, Publishers, Northport, Long Island, New York. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law has been so long and favorably known, and has re ceived so many flattering commendations from both Bench and Bar, that further words of praise would seem superfluous. It is, perhaps, the most valuable and important contribution to legal literature of re cent years. The work presents, in convenient form and within reasonable compass, the whole body of modern law. No law library can be said to be com plete without it. Indeed it is a library in itself. Among the list of contributors appear names of writers who have met with a favorable reception from the profession, and not a few who have taken high rank as authorities upon particular branches. The plan of the work is both a novel and happy one, and worthy of notice. The body of the law is divided into such titles (alphabetically arranged) as are susceptible of independent treatment, and in their selection prominence is given to many which,