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from the English system; it is in fact л modifi cation of the Scotch. The book is not only interestingly, but also well and carefully written; and the various legal propositions are clearly and accurately stated. It is of value to the Australian banker and man of business. It is also a text-book of distinct importance for the lawyer. NOTES ON THE UNITED STATES REPORTS. Book XI. By Walter Malins Rose. San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. Law Sheep. (1242 pp.) The cases digested and the citations of which are here brought together, are contained in the twenty-five volumes, 116—140, of the United States Reports. The statements of the several points decided in each case are models of clearness and conciseness. Printing di rectly after the several points in a case the citations bearing on that particular part of the decision, as is done here, brings all the references to each individual point before the eye at a glance. The inclusion of citations from the various " Reporters " makes it possible to bring the references quite closely down to date. RECEIVED AND TO BE REVIEWED LATER.

CONFLICT OF LAWS. By Raleigh C. Minor, AÍ.A., B.L. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1901. THE LAW OF TORTS. By Melville M. Bigelow, Ph.D. Seventh edition. Boston : Little, Brown & Co. 1901. THE LAW OF COMBINATIONS. By Austin J. Eddy. Chicago: Callaghan & Company. 1901. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OF STATUTORY CRIMES. BY John Prentis Bishop. Third Edi tion. Revised and enlarged by Marion C. Early. Chicago : T. H. Flood and Company. 1901. A TREATISE ON THE CANADIAN COMPANY LAW. By W.J. White, Q. C., assisted by/. A. Ewing, B. C. L. Montreal, Can. : C. Theoret. 1901. RECEIVED. THE YEARLY DIGEST OF REPORTED CASES. 1900. Edited by Edward Beal, B.A. Lon don : Butterworth & Company, 1901. Cloth, I5S.

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GENERAL DIGEST AMERICAN AND ENGLISH Bi-monthly Advance Sheets. No. 20. December, 1900. Rochester, N.Y : The Lawyers' Co-oper ative Publishing Company. Paper, $4 per year.

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MEMBERS of the legal profession throughout the country are looking forward with no little inter st to the appearance of the first volume of the Cyck^,*.dia of Law and I'roceduie to be issued shortly. V-ile the cyclopedic method of rounding up the law is far from being a new one, having been to some extent developed as far back as Viner's and Bacon's Abridgments, yet so many new and original features are included in the plan of this work as to make it practically a novelty. Lawyers are proverbially conservative, much given to clinging to the old things, and over-timid of parting from time-honored precedents. And no where has the evil effect of this ultra-conservatism been more apparent than in the making of law books. While the technical literature of the other learned professions has been keeping place with the require ments of modern civilization the lawyer's books have been falling further and further behind, until the necessity for radical improvements in the methods of law writing has become decidedly apparent, even to those antiquated believers in general principles who deem a " case lawyer " beneath contempt. It is undoubtedly true that every lawyer who practices in the courts to-day is a " case lawyer " however un willing he may be to admit it, and the text book that he wants is not one containing theoretical dis sertations upon the law as it should be, and citing venerable cases, decided in the long ago. The ideal book to meet the demands of the modern lawyer must not only contain a concise and accurate statement of the law as it is, but must also cite all the authorities that have made the law what it is; it must not only treat all the law on a given subject, but must treat it all in one place, and must make that place easy of access to the busy searcher for knowledge; and, above all things, it must not only be up to date when published, but it must be capable of keeping step with the progress of the science. All these things are promised, inter alia, by the publishers of the Cyclopedia of Lnw and Procedure, published by the American Book Company, New York, and therefore we feel that the appearance of their first volume will be a rather noteworthy even in legal circles. The most attractive feature of this work, from the bookbuyers' standpoint, is the plan of keeping it always abreast of the decisions by a simple and inexpensive system of annotation, where by the continual appearance of " new editions" will be rendered unnecessary, or rather indefensible; it was always unnecessary. Without something of the sort the value of a legal text-book is ephemeral to a degree, and the large percentage of practically useless books that load the shelves of every lawyer will bear testimony to the truth of the assertion.