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American Practice Reports. Vol. I. Official I preparation, we quote from the author's preface. leading cases in all State and Federal Courts, •• Broadly speaking, it consists of two classes of annotated and systematically arranged so as to matter: first, chronologically arranged syllabi of all include in the table of cases of each State, its points of law determined in the Supreme Court reported, cited and digested practice cases. decisions; and, second, notes appended to each syllabus, based upon and collecting all the subsequent Charles A. Ray, ex-Chief Justice of the Su citing cases pertaining thereto. These citation notes preme Court of Indiana. Washington Law are prepared by the editor from complete numerical Book Co., Washington, D. C. I,aw sheep. tables of citations, which disclose as to each case all the subsequent cases in which it has been cited in Statistics for a single year show that the total re verses in all the State courts of last resort upon pro the Supreme Court, the intermediate and inferior Fed cedure points alone are 38 per cent. Impressed by eral Courts, and the courts of law of last resort of all the large proportion of cases lost through the failure the states of the union. Proceeding upon the theory of attorneys to draw the pleadings so as to present that the profession wants something more than bald, the true merits of their cause or the proper matter of unclassified, numerical tables of citations, the notes aim to present a complete citation information re defence, Judge Ray has inaugurated this series of re ports, hoping thereby in some measure to lessen the specting each case in the most orderly and available delay in the administration of justice to litigants, and form : and to that end the citing cases are so classi fied and described as to show the points to which to make it possible for lawyers to win all their meri torious cases, instead of losing thirty-eight out of one they cite, their nature, their application of the cited hundred. The object is praiseworthy, and this series principle, and their general effect." The series is to be completed in ten volumes. of reports will afford great assistance to the practitioner upon all points of procedure. We commend the work We commend it to our readers, and advise them to to our readers as one admirably adapted to the examine the volumes for themselves. A careful inspection will demonstrate the great value and utility lawyer's needs. of the publication, which is destined, as we believe, to attain the greatest success of any legal work of Notes on the United States Reports. Vols. I recent years. and II. A brief chronological digest of all points determined in the decision of the NEW LAW BOOKS RECEIVED. Supreme Court. With notes and citations. By American State Reports. Vols. 67 and 6S. Walter Malins Rose of the San Francisco Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1899. Bar. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1899. Law sheep, $6.50 a vol. We have in this work of Mr. Rose a publication which should prove of inestimable value to the legal profession. As to its scope and the method of its

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corpora tions. Vol. VII. By Seymour D. Thompson. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1899.