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A very delightful book wherewith to while away a leisure hour is Mr. Henry B. Fuller's From the Other Side.1 The contents are made up of four stories of transatlantic travel, all of which are of more than or dinary interest as stories and at the same time con tain many charming pen pictures of foreign life and experiences. Tales of Trail and Town ' is a collection of tales, all good and interesting, varied in scene and subject, though bearing the inevitable western flavor of Bret Harte's writing. " A Night on the Divide" is an exciting story of the adventures of three boys with a bear and a snowslide in the Sierras. "Alkali Dick " is a quaint bringing together of a rider in Buf falo Bill's show with an aristocratic family in France, and very amusing it is. "Ancestors of Peter Atherly " touches on the Indian question, and the scene of " Two Americans" is laid in France and England. Although the writer lives, we believe, at present in London, he does not seem to have lost his ideal of what a good American should be, to judge by the sentiments he expresses in these two last stories. All of the " tales " are strong, vigorous, and well written.

NEW LAW-BOOKS. The Negotiable Instruments Law as enacted by the legislatures of New York, Connecticut, Colorado and Florida, from the draft prepared for the Commissioners on the Uniformity of Laws. By John J. Crawford of the New York Bar. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1897. Half law sheep. $1.75. In 1895 the Conference of Commissioners on Uni formity of Laws, at their meeting in Detroit, in structed the Committee on Commercial Law to have prepared a codification of the law relating to bills and notes. Mr. Crawford was employed to draw the proposed law, and the draft as amended by the com missioners forms the subject matter of this volume. It has been passed and become a law in several States, and will undoubtedly be adopted by many others. The codification covers the entire subject of negotiable instruments, and presents the law relating thereto in a concise, but, at the same time, exhaustive manner. Lawyers, bankers and business men gen erally will find the work of the greatest aid. A Treatise on the Law of Easements in con tinuation of the Author's Treatise on the Law of Real Property. By Leonard A. Jones, A.B. 1 From the Other SiDe. By Henry B. Fuller. Hough ton, Mifflin & Co. Boston and New York, 1895. Cloth. $1.-25 2 Tales of Trail anD Town. By Bret Harte. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Boston and New York, 1898. Cloth. 81.25.

LL. B. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1898. Law sheep. $6.00 net. This volume has been prepared by Mr. Jones as a continuation of his work upon the Law of Real Prop erty and, like all the treatises of this distinguished author, is notable for the completeness and thorough ness with which the subject is treated. No branch of the law of real estate presents more puzzling ques tions than this subject of easements and to these Mr. Jones has given particular attention. It is a great satisfaction to the practicing lawyer to be able to re fer to the works of a law-writer, knowing that he will find therein the law as fully and accurately laid down as it is possible for it to be, and to no set of treatises can he turn with greater confidence than to that of which the present volume is the latest. The Law of Wili-S for Students. By Melville M. Bigelow, Ph.D. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1898. Cloth. $2. 50 net. Sheep, $3.00 net. Few writers have the faculty of imparting legal principles in such a clear, succinct, and yet at the same time exhaustive manner as Professor Bigelow. His works are invaluable to the student, while the active practitioner cannot fail to derive benefit and assistance from them. This work on wills is a good exemplification of the possibility of making a rather difficult subject perfectly comprehensible to the stu dent, giving him at the same time the rules and doc trines of law and the spirit and theory upon which such rules are founded. The treatise is a most valu able addition to the " Student Series." Probate Reports Annotated. Vol. II. Con tinuing recent cases of general value decided in the courts of the several States on points of probate law. With notes and references. By Frank S. Rice. Baker, Voorhis & Co., New York, 1898. $5.50 net. This second volume of this valuable series is fully up to the high standard of the first, and these reports certainly make a most valuable addition to the prac ticing lawyer's library. The cases are judiciously selected and Mr. Rice's notes very full and ex haustive. American State Reports, Vol. 58. Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority de cided in the Courts of last resort of the sev eral States. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1898. l^aw sheep. $4.00. This series of reports is now so well known to the profession that words of commendation seem almost superfluous. It is surprising that the able editor is able to keep up such good and thorough work as is evidenced by his valuable annotations. There is no shirking on his part, but rather an earnest, conscien tious purpose to make the series invaluable to the practitioner. In this he has certainly succeeded.