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directly of the subject-matter named in the heading, connecting the same by cross references to other and relative matters. In this way repetition, confusion and obscurity are avoided, and the one volume is made to contain the matter of two.

THE LAW OF EXPERT AND OPINION EVIDENCE, reduced to rules with illustrations from ad judged cases. By JOHN D. LAWSON, LL. D. Second edition revised and enlarged. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago, 1900. Law sheep. $6.00, net. bility Theofgreat expert number and opinion of casesevidence involvingprove the admissithe im portance of this subject. Since the publication of the first edition of this work in 1883, the number of such cases has more than doubled. Mr. Lawson, unlike many law writers, is not content to give a sim ple digest of the law, but he presents the principles which have been laid down by the courts in the form of rules with illustrations and reasons, and endeavors, so far as possible, to bring the law upon the subject to complete unity and settlement. The author's name, is a guaranty that his work has been thoroughly and exhaustively performed, and the treatise is one which will commend itself to every practicing lawyer.

THE LAW OF ELECTRIC WIRES in streets and highways. By EDWARD QUINTON KEASBEY of the New Jersey Bar. Second edition, re vised and enlarged. Callaghan & Co., Chica go, 1900. Law sheep. $4.00. This subject is one which is rapidly growing in importance and involves many questions calling for judicial settlement. Since the first edition of this work (issued some eight years ago) many of the ques tions therein discussed have been definitely settled and new and equally perplexing points have become the subject of controversy. The present edition brings the work fully down to date and the work may be considered as authority upon the present status of the law.

NEW OHIO CITATIONS. A complete table of Ohio cases. By J. W. Thompson. The Bowen-Merrill Co. Indianapolis, 1900. Law sheep. Sio.oo. This volume covers all the Ohio cases reported offi cially and unofficially from 1816 to 1900, from the Supreme, Circuit, Superior, Common Pleas. Probate

and Federal Courts, with all subsequent citations showing all cases cited, overruled, modified, doubted, criticised, distinguished, explained, disapproved or changed by statute and all foreign cases cited. In addition to all this a statement is given of the point of law upon which each case is cited. The work will be invaluable to Ohio practitioners and will be needed as a book of reference in all law libraries.

THE LAW OF BAILMENTS embracing deposits, mandate, loans for use, pledges, hire, inn keepers, and carriers. By EDWARD BEAL, B. A., of the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co., London, England. The Casswell Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. 1900. Cloth. §8.25. since It isSirnow William considerably Jones wrote morehis than essay a century on the (i law 781)of bailments and it is singular that since the last edition of this essay (1833) no English writer has published a new book upon this important subject. No won der then that Mr. Beal has found ample excuse for presenting to the legal world the present treatise. The work is admirable in every way and is an ex haustive exposition of the English law of bailments. The leading cases are arranged as far as possible in chronological order, thus giving the history and evolution of the law; and as the English judicial statements are given ipsissiinis vcrbis, to which are added occasional extracts from well known text books, the practitioner is saved much time and trouble. The author has, as he says, " concerned himself more with the reason and spirit of cases which make law, and the statement of general principles than with the facts." The treatise will be welcomed not only by the English liar, but will undoubtedly be accepted and recognized as a standard authority by the American bench and bar.

NOTES ON THE UNITED REPORTS, Vol. VI. A brief chronological digest of all points deter mined in the decision of the Supreme Court, with notes and citations. By WALTER MALINS ROSE of the San Francisco Bar. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco, 1900. Law sheep. $6.50. There is no apparent falling off in the quality of Mr. Rose's work, as this series progresses. Notes and citations are prepared in a most thorough and exhaustive manner and are veritable mines of valua ble information. The present volume covers cases reported in 24 Howard. 1-2 Black and 1-7 Wal'ace. If any of our readers are not familiar with this series, we advise them to become so at once.