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interest the layman as well as the lawyer, and is a notable addition to biographical literature. Principles of the Law of Consent, with special reference to Criminal Law, including the doc trines of Mistake, Duress, and Waiver. By Hukm Chand, M. A. Bombay Education So ciety's Press, 1897. It seems strange to have to look to India for one of the most admirable treatises on the law of Consent yet given to the profession, but this work of Mr. Chand is fully entitled to be considered as an ex ceedingly able and exhaustive exposition of the subject. The general plan of the work is much the same as that adopted by the author in his treatise on "Res Judicata," and proceeds on natural lines and in the orderly sequence in which the various questions connected with the subject naturally arise for consid eration. The author has so fully availed himself of English and American authorities that the treatise is as valuable to practitioners here as in India. A copy should certainly be included among the text books in every law library. Selected Cases on the Law of Partnership, in cluding Limited Partnerships. By Francis M. Burdick. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1898. Cloth, S4.50 net. Professor Burdick has collected and arranged un der proper heads some two hundred and fifty leading cases on the Law of Partnership. These cases cover the subject fully, and from them the stu dent can readily obtain a clear and adequate idea of the development of the law of partnership as well as of its present doctrines. On mooted and un settled points the author endeavors to acquaint the student with the cardinal principles underlying the conflicting theories, but not to bewilder him with a mass of unsound or overruled decisions. While de signed especially for the student's use, the practicing lawyer will find this selection of use as a ready refer ence book of cases bearing upon almost every con ceivable point in the Law of Partnership. Illinois Criminal Law and Practice. Illustrated and construed by the decisions of the Courts, with forms of indictments. By Ossian Cam eron, LL. B., of the Chicago bar. E. B. Myers & Co., Chicago, 1898. Law sheep. The volume will prove a valuable aid to the Illinois bar. Mr. Cameron has carefully and systematically arranged the law of that State bearing upon Commer cial Law and its practice, adding thereto a number of forms of indictments for various offenses. The Science of Law and Law-Making. Being an introduction to law, a general view of its forms and substance, and a discussion of the

question of Codification. By R. Floyd Clarke, A. B., LL. D., of the New York bar. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1898. Cloth, S4.00. This work is intended especially for the layman, but the legal profession will also find it both read able and instructive. Mr. Clarke gives his readers a clear and true conception of the system of law under which they live, explaining in popular terms the general outlines of legal systems and making the subject perfectly intelligible to the ordinary mind. He then proceeds to discuss the question of codifica tion, and his conclusions seem to us to be sound and to be sustained by facts. We commend the book as one which may be read with profit by all thinking men. A Treatise on the Military Law of the L'NITed States. Together with the practice and procedure of Courts-Martial and other Military Tribunals. By Lieutenant-Colonel George B. Davis, Deputy Judge- Advocate General, U.S.A. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1898. Cloth, $7.00; sheep, $7.50. This treatise is certainly timely, considering the warlike spirit which has seized our national law makers. The work appears to be in every respect thorough and exhaustive, the text being brought up to date and including a full discussion of the im portant additions which have been made to the mili tary code during the past ten years. The author 'treats his subject from the historical point of view. The history of military tribunals and of the articles of war are fully traced, and each article is followed by an interpretation of its several requirements. A full set of forms for use in the framing of charges and pleas and the preparation of the records of the several tribunals is given in an appendix. In order that the scope of the work may be appreciated we give a synopsis of its contents: Military Law, its His tory, Authority and Sources; Military Tribunals, their Authority and Function; The Constitution of Courts-Martial; The Composition of Courts-Martial; The Jurisdiction of Courts-Martial; Arrest and Con finement; Charges and Specifications; The Inci dents of the Trial; Challenges, Pleas, the Hearing; findings; Sentence, Proceedings in Revision; Pun ishments; The Record; The Reviewing Authority; The Inferior Courts-Martial; Courts of Inquiry; Mili tary Boards; Evidence; Martial Law; Military Gov ernment; Military Commissions; The Habeas Cor pus; The Employment of Military Force; The Articles of War; Appendix; The Prince Rupert Code; The British Articles of 1774; The American Articles of 1776; Forms of Charges;' Forms of Pleas; Summons; Returns to Writs, etc.; The Rec ord of the Trial.