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manner. Ample and well selected authorities are cited in support of the propositions advanced. The work should find immediate favor with the profession.

is evidently carefully made, and the annotations are full and well prepared. The cases reported cover almost every conceivable point likely to arise in Corporation and Railroad Law.

The Amer1can State Reports. Containing the cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. Vol. XXXIX. Bancroft, Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1894. Law sheep. $4.00. The excellence of this series of reports is fully maintained in the present volume. Mr. Freeman's work is always well done, but his annotations to the present selection of cases are even more exhaustive than usual. We have said many a good word for these reports, and they are certainly deserving of high praise.

Cases on Const1tut1onal Law, with notes. Part Three. By James Bradley Thayer, LL.D. Chas. W. Sever, Cambridge, Mass. $2.50. Prof. Thayer certainly deserves the thanks of the profession for this admirable selection of cases and for the exceedingly valuable notes which accompany them. One part more (to be issued about February 1, 1895) will complete the work. In its finished form it will be a most valuable addition to our legal literature, and both student and practitioner will be quick to appreciate its merits.

Med1cal Jur1sprudence, Forens1c Med1c1ne and Tox1cology, Vol. II. By R. A. W1tthaus, A.M., M.D., and Tracy C. Becker, A.B., LL.B. William Wood & Co., New York, 1894. Law sheep. $6.00. In our April number (1894) we noticed the first volume of this important treatise, and the second vol ume fully bears out the commendation we then ac corded the work. In it the subject of Forensic Med icine is further treated. Dr. Edward S. Wood contributes very interesting chapters on " Examina tion of Blood and Other Stains," and " Examination of Hair." Dr. W. Thornton Parker has a valuable paper on " Simulated Diseases," and Dr. W. B. Outten one on " Railway Injuries." The other contents cover many important lego-medical ques tions. As we have heretofore said (April, '94J the work is one of sterling merit, the greatest care and research having evidently been bestowed upon its preparation. To criminal lawyers it will be invalu able, while the general practitioner will find it of the greatest assistance. We recommend a careful exam ination of the work by the profession. Amer1can Ra1lroad and Corporat1on Reports. Being a collection of the current decisions of the courts of last resort in the United States pertaining to the law of railroads, private and municipal corporations, including the law of insurance, banking, carriers, telegraph and telephone companies, building and loan as sociations, etc., etc. Edited and annotated by John Lew1s. Volume IX. E. B. Myers & Co., Chicago, 1894. Law sheep. $5.00 net. All corporation lawyers will find these reports of much value and assistance. The selection of cases

M1scellaneous. Ph1l1p and H1s W1fe. By Margaret Deland. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston and New York, 1894. Cloth. $1.25. In this, her latest work, Mrs. Deland struggles with a great social problem, and fails to reach any thing like a satisfactory solution. She takes as the motto for her book, " Marriage is not a result, but a process," and as may be inferred the story raises the oft-repeated question, " Is mar riage a failure? " When two individuals of such oppo site natures as Philip Shore and Cecilia Drayton unite in marriage, the result cannot be expected to be very satisfactory, and in their case things come to the worst possible pass. Neither of them enlists the reader's sympathy : in fact, we have no patience with either of them. Philip is a prig, and by many will be considered even worse than that, while Cecilia is al most equally unattractive. The other actors in this little drama are much more natural and pleasing, and possess more real interest for the general reader. The book is one of undoubted power, and Mrs. Deland as usual is deeply in earnest in her work, but she has chosen a disagreeable subject, one which we fail to see any good in publicly discussing. We like her better in " Sidney "or " John Ward, Preacher." The French Revolut1on Tested by Mirabeau's Career. By H. Von Holst. Callaghan & Co., Chicago, 1894. Two volumes. Cloth. These volumes contain twelve lectures delivered by Mr. Von Ho1st at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., upon the history of the French Revolution. The main features of that stupendous uprising are illus trated by the opinions of Mirabeau, the foremost political genius of its first age. Owing to the limited time allowed for each lecture the author was of course obliged to greatly condense his material, but he has.