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 Rh Samuel T. Anderson; " The United States Geo logical Survey," by Charles D. Walcott; "Brain Development as Related to Evolution," by Hon. G. Hilton Scribner; and "Some Material Forces of the Social Organism," by Prof. John W. Langley.

number of cases cited being from the United States. We know of no work upon this abstruse subject which displays so complete a mastery of the principles involved. It should find a place in every law library.

The North American Review for February opens with three timely and important articles on •'The Financial Muddle," written respectively by the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agricul ture, Representative William M. Springer, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, and Henry W. Cannon, President of the Chase National Bank of New V'ork and formerly Comp troller of the Currency. Among the short articles which appear in this number are " Images in Dead Eyes," by Dr. Ellerslie Wallace; "Newspaper Row and National Legisla tion," by Albert Halstead; Washington correspon dent of the " Cincinnati Commercial Gazette." "The Cat in Law," by Gertrude B. Rolfe, and "How to Repel Train Robbers," by Lieut. J. T. Knight, U. S. A.

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corpor ations. By Seymour D. Thompson, LL. D. The Bancroft Whitney Co., San Francisco. 1895. Six volumes, $36.00. This great work of Judge Thompson, which has been for years in preparation, is finally announced as completed, and the first two volumes will be ready for delivery this month, while the others will follow at intervals of two months. We look forward with great interest to the appearance of the work, which promises to be the most remarkable legal publication since Kent's Commentaries. The general contents may be summarized as follows : — I. Organization and Internal Government. II. Capital Stock and Subscriptions thereto. III. Reme dies and Procedure to Enforce Share Subscriptions. IV. Shares Considered as Property. V. Liability of Stockholders to Creditors. VI. Directors. VII. Rights and Remedies of Members and Shareholders. VIII. Ministerial Officers and Agents. IX. Formal Execution of Corporate Contracts. X. Notice, Estoppel, Ratification. XI. Franchises, Privileges and Exemptions. XII. Corporate Powers and the Doctrine of Ultra Vires. XIII. Corporate Bonds and Mortgages. XIV. Torts and Crimes of Corpor ations. XV. Insolvent Coqjorations. XVI. Dis solution and winding up. XVII. Receivers of Cor porations. XVIII. Actions by and against Corpora tions. XIX. Foreign Corporations. The above titles are divided and subdivided into one comprehensive, orderly and complete work, covering every species of corporations, except those created for governmental purposes.

BOOK NOTICES. LAW. A Treatise on the I.aw of Res Judicata, includ ing the Doctrines of Jurisdiction, Bar by Suit and Lis Pendens. By Hukm Chand, M. A., Chief Justice City Court of Hyderabad, Deccan, India. William Clowes & Sons, London, William Green & Sons, Edinburgh, 1894. This is a truly remarkable work, evidencing a most thorough research and a most exhaustive learn ing on the part of its distinguished author. Al though coming from an East Indian lawyer, the treatise is admirably adapted to the needs of the American Bar, more than one-half of the great

A System of Legal Medicine. By Allen McLane Hamilton, M. D., and Lawrence Godkin, Esq., of the New York Bar. E. B. Treat, New York, 1894. Two vols. Law sheep. This work is perhaps the most important contri bution ever offered to medico-legal literature. A remarkable array of legal and medical talent has been enlisted by the editors and articles are furnished by such lawyers as Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, B. F. Cardozo, W. B. Hornblower, R. C. McMurtrie, etc., while besides the editor, Dr. Hamilton, on the medi cal side we find such well known names as Prof. Jas. F. Babcock, Lewis Balch, Francis A. Harris, Ryerson Fowler, B. Sachs, F. R. Sturgis, V. C.

The leading feature of The Century continues to be the " Life of Napoleon," by Prof. William M. Sloane, which, in the February number, reaches the topic of Bonaparte's first military success. After describing the rather shifty policy of Napoleon in relation to the Revolution, Prof. Sloane recounts the circumstances surrounding the famous pamphlet, "The Supper of Beaucaire," and then takes up Napoleon's decisive success at Toulon, and his ap pointment as a Jacobin general, thus covering, in all, the larger part of the period from the time of the expulsion of the Bonapartes from Corsica to the marriage with Josephine. The article is finely il lustrated.