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dropped it. Raleigh's Virginia, originally extending from Florida to Canada, has undergone a pretty severe slicing process to reduce it to the dimensions of the present State, and Mr. Fiske relates in a most interest ing manner the history of this territorial transforma tion. An insight is given into the social features of the Southern Colonies and many quaint old laws are unearthed which will especially interest the legal pro fession. The book is one of absorbing interest to students of our early history, and is really a mine of valuable.information. i

NEW LAW-BOOKS. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. By Al fred Swaine Taylor, M.D., F.R.S. Twelfth American, edited with citations and additions from the twelfth English, edition. By Clark Bell, Esq., LL. D. Lea Brothers & Co. New York and Philadelphia. 1897. Cloth. But few law books have the good fortune to pass through twelve editions. Still some treatises have by their intrinsic merit obtained such a hold on the pro fession that the demand seems to be unlimited, and edition after edition is necessary to meet the wants of the practitioner. Such a work is Taylor on Medi cal Jurisprudence. The increasing frequency of dam age cases renders the department of Medico-Legal Surgery of growing importance and a chapter cover ing this subject has been included in this edition. The entire work has been thoroughly revised and brought down to date and the publishers have been fortunate in securing the services of so eminent an authority as Clark Bell, as editor. The Law of Railway Bonds and Mortgages in the United States of America, with illustrative cases from English and Colonial courts. By Edward Lyman Short of the New York Bar. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 189 7. Law sheep. $6.50 net. Mr. Short in this treatise gives the profession a work which will be found almost indispensable to the practitioner. The entire law relating to railway bonds and mortgages and similiar securities is covered in a very exhaustive and satisfactory manner, eviden cing the most painstaking care on the author's part. In his preface Mr. Short says : " It has always been my view that the chief value of the text-book to the practitioner lies in the fact that, when properly com piled, it will enable him to find any point in the law of his subject, which has either been decided, dis cussed or even referred to incidently." This treatise comes well up to this ideal.

A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands within the Public Land States and Territories, and Governing the Acquisition and Enjoyment of Mining Rights in Lands of the Public Domain. By Curtis H. Lindley of the San Francisco Bar. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco, 1897. Two vols. Law sheep. $15.00. This treatise is, we believe, the first attempt to present the profession with a full and exhaustive ex position of American mining laws under the present system. The work is evidently the- result of most careful research, and covers the subject in an emi nently satisfactory manner. Lawyers interested in litigation concerning mines or mining rights will find in this treatise an exceedingly practical and useful guide. An excellent feature has been introduced in to the Table of Cases whereby the searcher can see at once where each particular case is cited in all other series of reports. The Appendix of Statutes, both Federal and State, is annotated with reference to where each statute is treated in Mr. Lindley's text. We commend the work to our readers.

The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States. By Daniel Moreau Barringer and Jno. Stokes Adams of the Philadelphia Bar. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1897. Law sheep. $7.50 net. Following closely upon the heels of Mr. Lind ley's treatise (noticed above) comes another work upon the same subject. This treatise, however, is not confined to the Statutory System under which title to mines is acquired, and mining is conducted upon those lands which are or have been part of the public domain. While it covers this field fully, it deals with equal completeness with the law of those States where the common law of real estate owner ship applies, thus including mines of all description as well as oil and gas wells, etc. An interesting geological preface describes the va rious kinds of ore deposits in the United States. A full syllabus of each important case is given, the rea soning of the decision epitomized and pertinent ex tracts for the opinion are quoted. On the whole the work seems admirably adapted to the lawyer's needs.

The American State Reports. Vol. 57. Contain ing the cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported and anno tated by A. C. Freeman. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1897. Law sheep. $4.00.