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may be founded. We commend the work as care fully and thoroughly prepared and one which should find a place on every lawyer's table. Code Municipal de la Province de Quebec annote. Par J. E. Bedard, C. R. C. Theoret, Montreal, 1898. Cloth. The Municipal Code of the province of Quebec is here presented in both French and English, and accompanied with a full alphabetical index. The annotations are exhaustive and the volume must prove invaluable to Canadian lawyers. It will also be in demand by all law libraries on this side of the line. New York Negligence Cases classified, accord ing to the facts. Prepared and edited by T. F. Hamilton of the New York Bar. Remick, Schilling & Co. New York. 1898. Law sheep, $6.50. This volume contains a complete collection of all reported negligence cases decided by all the New York State Courts to January 1, 1898. The busy lawyer will find these cases classified according to the facts of each case, thus having ready at hand a complete brief upon almost every conceivable ques tion likely to arise. A long and tedious examination of digests and text-books is avoided and the practi tioner is enabled without loss of time to turn to all the cases bearing upon the point in controversy. The work will be appreciated not only by New York law yers but by the profession at large. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence including the rules regulating the proper pres entation of evidence and its relevancy; the mode of proof in particular cases of crimes, and the competency and examination of wit nesses. With full references to the decisions. By H. C. Underhill, LL.B. of the New York Bar. The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis and Kansas City, 1898. Law sheep. $6.00 net. In this treatise Mr. Underhill gives us a clear com prehensive and systematic treatment of the law of criminal evidence. After a careful examination of the work it seems to us in every way satisfactory and admirably adapted to the needs of the profession, and we are confident that it will be appreciated, as it deserves, by both bench and bar. Some nine thous and cases are cited all of which have been carefully examined and analyzed by the author and the treatise as brought fully down to date. Those matters which are common to civil and criminal proceedings are fully discussed from the standpoint of the criminal practitioner and in the

form they usually assume in criminal trials, such as the exclusion of privileged communications, proof of handwriting, primary evidence, expert and opinion evidence, the rule of the res gestae, judicial notice, newly discovered evidence, etc. The relevancy of evidence and the mode and means of proof of particular facts in the various classes of crime are also exhaustively treated. The work is a valuable addition to our legal text-books. The Highway Law of New York State, to gether with all other Statutes of the State, General and Miscellaneous, relating to the Subject of Highways. Edited by H. Noyes Greene of the Troy Bar. Matthew Bender, Albany N. Y., 1898. Law sheep. S3.50 net. This work contains in full all statutes of New York State or parts of statutes relating to highways. These consist of the general highway law, all the pertinent general laws, and over thirty miscellaneous statutes, not heretofore repealed or rendered obsolete and dating back to the laws of 18 17. It also con tains the text of the new " Good Roads Bill." It is an invaluable aid, not only to the lawyer in his every day practice, but to town boards and officers, high way commissioners, pathmasters, overseers and other highway officials, and to all bicyclists. The American State Reports, Vol.61. Con taining the Cases of General Value and Au thority decided in the Courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco, 1898. Law sheep. $4.00. This volume contains a number of important de cisions, and Mr. Freeman's annotations are valuable and exhaustive. We can only repeat our oft ex pressed appreciation of this series of Reports and heartily commend it to our readers. The Tax Law of the State of New York. The Tax Law of 1896 with all amendments to date. Edited by H. Noyes Greene of the Troy Bar, with a chapter on the Powers and Duties of Assessors by J. Newton Fif.ro. Matthew Bender, Albany, N. Y., 1S98. Law sheep. S3.00 net. New York lawyers and assessors will find this work of great value. It is carefully and thoroughly annotated and brings the legislation as to assess ment and taxation down to the close of the last session of the New York legislature. A complete set of forms proved by the best authorities on the subject is added.