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 Rh ning of the century, investing with all the charm of witty and vivid narration a period of real interest. The initial article in the same number has also an American theme, and treats of by-gone days — the days when sea-robbers of New York carried on what they termed the Red Sea Trade, regarding it as a business rather than as a crime; and " agreeable and companionable pirates" (in a town that may still, unfortunately, count among its officials " agreeable and companionable " persons who regard robbery as a business rather than as a crime), are described by Thomas A. Janvier.

BOOK NOTICES. Law. Commentaries on the Law of Persons and Per sonal Property. Being an introduction to the Study of Contracts. By Theodore W. Dwight, late Professor of Law at Columbia College, New York. Edited by Edward F. Dwight, of the New York Bar. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1894. Law sheep. £6.oo net. No one of our law teachers was better known to the profession at large than the late Professor Theo dore W. Dwight, and to him, more than to any other, the Law School of Columbia College owes its great success and reputation. The " Dwight Method" has given rise to much discussion, but, judged by its fruits, it is pre-eminently well adapted for the mak ing of good lawyers. The present volume covers subjects embraced in the author's lectures on " Muni cipal Law," immediately preceding the Course on Contracts, and affords an excellent opportunity, to those who are not already familiar with it, to study the methods of this remarkable teacher. The lectures form the basis of the Division of Subjects as to the Law of Persons (Book I.), and of Personal Property (Book II.). The Law of Per sons is divided into Absolute Rights, viz. Personal Security and Personal Liberty, and Relative Rights, under which are considered what is commonly called Domestic Relations. Under the first head, the Rights and Privileges of Citizens of the United States under the Constitution and its Amendments, and in connection with early English statutes, are discussed at length. Provision in restraint of the General Government on one side, and of the States on the other, are treated in detail. Habeas Corpus in the State and Federal courts, and also in relation to extradition, is examined at length. The second half of the work is devoted to the right of Private Property in Things Personal. All the various subjects are discussed in detail, and with that careful particularity which the great

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teacher deemed necessary when presenting them to the students whom he was training. To support the positions of the text, the author selected and cited such authorities as he deemed best, keeping in view their weight and force rather than their number. The Law of the Apothecary. A compendium of both the common and statutory law govern ing druggists and chemists in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut. By George Howard Fall, LL.B., Ph.D. Irving P. Fox, Boston, 1894. . While this book is not written for lawyers, but is prepared especially for druggists and chemists, the legal practitioner will find much useful and valuable information contained therein. The author in a clear and concise manner states the principles of law ap plicable to the apothecary and chemist, giving the Statute law relating thereto in the six New England states, and for purposes of illustration analyzing decided cases. Principles of the Law of Real Property, in tended as a first book, for the use of students in conveyancing. By the late Joshua Williams. The seventeenth edition re-arranged and partly re-written by his son, T. Cyprian Williams, with American notes by Harry B. Hutchins, Professor of Law in Cornell University. The Boston Book Co., Boston, 1894. Law sheep. $4.oo net. Of the many excellent treatises on Real Property whicn have appeared during recent years, none has for its special object excelled the late Mr. Williams's book. Accurate and concise in expression, and clear and masterly in enunciation of principles, it gives to students an admirable knowledge of real property law, while the practising lawyer will find it almost invaluable to him as a book of reference. The present edition has been largely recast and remodeled by the author's son, in view of the modern changes in law, but he has endeavored to carry out his father's ideas, and has presented just such a clear and practical work as would have been written by the late Mr. Williams, if now alive. The American notes have been prepared by Prof. H. B. Hutchins, who has had a varied experience in lecturing on real property, first at Michigan University, and after wards .at Cornell. Long familiarity with the needs and perplexities of the students has enabled him to prepare such practical notes as will smooth away the difficulties of the text, and fix the principles of the law in the student's mind. His plan of placing these