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ness, meets Colonel Ethan Allen and later becomes a prominent actor in the stirring scenes which made Allen and his Green Mountain boys famous and never to be forgotten. Events in which the Vermont boys participated are graphically described, and the characters are all strongly and faithfully drawn. The book will interest both old and young.

AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY REPORTS, ANNOTATED, VOL. II. Reporting the Bankruptcy Decisions and Opinions in the United States of the Fed eral Courts and References in Bankruptcy. Edited by WM. MILLER COLLIER, MATTHEW BENDER, Albany, N. Y., 1900. Law sheep, $5.00.

The Farmstead* is the title of a new volume in the Rural Science Series, which has just been published by The Macmillan Company. The author, I. P. Roberts, Director of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, explains how the gains from farming may be applied to the making of comfortable and attractive homes. He does not hold out the hope that the farm is a theatre on which to accumulate wealth, but rather that it is a place upon which one may secure a competence and live a happy life. In the great majority of cases, the farmer fails to find happiness because he does not know how to live. Professor Roberts discusses the location of the house, the layout of the grounds, the details of construction of houses and farm buildings, the planning of the barns, the scheme of fields and fences, the furnishing and sanitation of the home. As far as any book can, this work will take the place of an architect for rural building — for Professor Roberts was himself once a builder. It is a book of advice for every one who lives on the farm, or who contemplates country life, and is profusely illustrated and printed in large 'type.

Mr. Collier is doing a good work for the busy lawyer in this series of Reports. His annotations are exhaustive, and the practitioner will save a vast amount of research and valuable time by consulting these volumes as they appear.

NEW BOOKS FOR LAWYERS.

THE ELEMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW with an account of its origin, sources and historical development. By GEORGE B. DAVIS, Lieut.Col. and Deputy Judge, Advocate Gen., U. S. A. A new and revised edition. Harper & Broth ers, New York and London, 1900. Cloth. The first edition of this work was very favorably received, and has been largely used by our American colleges and law schools as a standard treatise upon the subject of International Law. In this new edi tion the text has been generally revised, and the more important cases, to which the international ex perience of the last fifteen years has given rise, have been inserted. In its present form the work is admirable in every way, and will receive the hearty welcome to which its merits entitle it. 1 THE FARMSTEAD. The making of the rural home, and the layout of the farm. Ну Isaac Phillips Roberts. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1900. Cloth, $1.50.

A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF WILLS including their execution, revocation, etc. By H. C. Underbill, LL. В., of the New York bar. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago, 1900. Two vols. Law sheep. $12.00, net. In this treatise of Mr. Underbill's we have a really valuable addition to the existing literature upon the law of wills. The author has so arranged the treat ment of his subject that everything which may prop erly be considered as exclusively a part of the law of wills, as, for example, testamentary capacity, undue influence, execution, revocation and the like, is con tained in Vol. i ., while those subjects which though frequently invoked in relation to wills, may be ineluded under some other head of law, as. for exam ple, equitable election and satisfaction, are comprised in the second volume. The work is brought thor oughly down to date, covering the latest English and American decisions, and is in every way admir ably adapted to the needs of the practitioner.

NOTES ON THE UNITED STATES REPORTS, Vol. V. By Walter Malins Rose of the San Francisco bar. Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1900. Law sheep. $6.50. This volume covers the cases in 11-23 Howard, and is fully up to the high standard of its prede cessors. Notes and citations are all that could be desired. We do not see how this series can fail to commend itself to the profession, for it is really one of the most important and valuable works ever of fered to the legal fraternity.

AMERICAN STATE REPORTS, Vol. 70. Contain ing the cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of last resort of the sev eral States and Territories. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. FREEMAN. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco, 1900. Lawsheep. $4.00.