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Vaughan, W. T. Gibb, etc. All of these gentlemen may be called experts in the subjects of which they write, and their statements carry more than usual weight and authority. The scope of the work covers almost every conceivable medico-legal topic, and will be found invaluable to all practitioners who are called upon to discuss such subjects. We heartily commend the book to the profession and bespeak for it the cordial reception to which its merits entitle it. Life Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, American, English and Canadian. To which is added thoughts, facts and facetine. Ry Gilbert J. Clark of the Kansas City Bar. lawyers' In ternational Publishing Co., Kansas City, 1895. Two volumes. Mr. Clark gives us in these volumes a vast amount of interesting matter concerning the great lights of the American and English Bars. Short biographical sketches, to which are added extracts from speeches and arguments, together with bright anecdotes etc., make up the contents. The work is designed as a key to the admirable photogravure groups of eminent lawyers published by Mr. Clark a year since. The book will be read with pleasure by the profession and should be preserved as a treasure-house of bio graphical information. The labor involved in the preparation of such a work must have been very great, and Mr. Clark deserves the thanks of his brother lawyers for the bringing together these sketches of such a host of worthies for their delecta tion. Commentaries ox the Law of Injunctions, as determined by the Courts and Statutes of Eng land and the United States. By Charles Fisk Beach, Jr. H. B. Parsons, Albany, N.Y., 1895. Two vols. Law Sheep, Si 2.00 net. Mr. Beach is one of the most indefatigable of our law writers, and with hardly an exception his works have deserved high praise. In this treatise on In junctions, he has given the profession a very useful and practical book, one which will prove of great aid and assistance. The law as it is to-day is fully and carefully stated and the citations are numerous and to the point. It is an admirable working tool and will find favor with both bench and bar. We com mend it to the attention of our readers. miscellaneous. The Woman who Did. By Grant Allen. Roberts Bros., Boston, 1895. Cloth Si.00. The English novel of to-day has been the subject of much severe criticism, and this work of Mr. Allen's

is likely to receive its full share of adverse comment. Dealing as it does with a question which strikes at the very root of our social system, and advocating through the lips of its heroine the abolition of mar riage, the book is one which few will commend. It is however a relief to find that all the heroine's efforts to revolutionize the social status come to naught, and that she, to a certain extent, sees the errors of her ways and expiates them by taking her own life. The story is powerfully written, is of great interest, and furnishes much food for thought, but we wish the author's talents had been exercised in a worthier direction. Recollections ok Sixteen Presidents, from Washington to Lincoln. By Richard W. Thompson. The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indian apolis, 1894. Two vols. Sold by subscrip tion only. It has fallen to Mr. Thompson to enjoy the re markable distinction of having seen all the Presidents of the United States except Washington and the elder Adams, and to have met and personally known many of them. Mr. Thompson himself, has been a prominent figure in the political history of our coun try, and consequently anything from his pen demands a more than usual consideration by the American people. We took up these volumes therefore "with pleasant anticipations, but found to our regret that personal recollections of our Presidents were almost entirely wanting, and that Mr. Thompson had con tented himself with giving simply short histories of the different administrations. These are inter esting, but they are not what the reader is led to expect from the title of the book. Many of the author's statements will be taken issue with by students of our political history, but we have not the time or space to point out what seem to us to be remarkable assertions on Mr. Thompson's part. The book, as a whole, is well written and very read able, and a valuable acquisition to political history, but the opportunity for making it the work of the day seems not to have been availed of by the dis tinguished author. hooks received. Handbook of American Constitutional Law. By Henry Campbell Black. West Publishing Co., St. Paul. American State Reports. Vol. XL. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco. Rules of Evidence. By George W. Bradner. Callaghan & Co., Chicago.