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 The Green Bag, be traced back to the time of Henry II, the lat ter half of the twelfth century. This is a field in the history of the law in which Judge Phelps is thoroughly at home — as witness his book on "Juridical Equity." It is an ingenious and interesting picture which, in the later chapters, is drawn of -the boyhood of " little Will Shaxbere," and of the atmosphere of litigation in which he was brought up: for in the forty years ending in 1601 his father was actively engaged in forty-odd lawsuits the records of which are still extant. Interest ing, too, are the chapters tracing the various cases of Shakespeare v. Lambert, in the later stages of which long-drawn controversy the dramatist himself was joined. "Falstaff and Equity" is a treat to both the lawyer and the lover of Shakespeare; to the lucky mortal who is a student both of the law and of great dramatist, it is nothing short of a feast. The graceful introduction to the volume is written by the well-known Shakespearean scholar, Henry Austin Clapp. FOR one who enjoys a historical novel, a story of adventure in Florida during the Huguenot and Spanish struggle for that colony, proves a pleasant change after so many stories of Vir ginian colonists. IN SEARCH OF MADEMOISELLE,' the scene of which is in Florida, abounds in shipwrecks, duels, and other trials of strength and skill. The old-time setting of the picture is well done, and the style is clear, though often abrupt. THE author of VOYSEY ä essays to answer in considerable detail, the question whether a brilliant, cultivated man of wealth and position should try to love and to be loved by a woman neither very young nor attractive, by no means his intellectual or social equal, and already the wife of another man. The style is realistic, the analysis keen, and the characters well drawn and true to life, excepting in the abnormal lack of truth and honor shown by the hero and hero ine to everyone except each other. 1 IN SEARCH OF MADEMOISELLE. By George Gibbs. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1901. Cloth, ?'-50- (373 PP-)
 * VOYSEY. By ft. O. Prouse, New York : The Macmillan Company, 1901. Cloth. (404 pp.1)

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THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS. Vol. 78. Containing cases of general value and au thority decided in the courts of last resort. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. freeman. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. Law sheep. (1047 pp.) The value of this series of reports lies in part in bringing together in one volume of the more important recent decisions in a large number of the different States, and in part in the admirable notes following the several cases. Some of these notes are of an exhaustive character and bring together in a convenient form the law bearing upon the subject dealt with in the prin cipal case. In the present volume the more im portant monographic notes deal with the follow ing subjects : Acts which the Legislature may or may not declare criminal; Effect of assignments of judgment; Common-law powers of executors; Computation of time; When and how the Statute of Frauds may be pleaded; The withdrawal of a juror. The cases here reported and annotated are from recent volumes of the California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa chusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey (Equity), North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee reports.

AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY REPORTS. Vol. V. Annotated. Edited by James W. Eatûn and William Miller Collier. Albany, N. Y. : Mat thew Bender. 1901. Law sheep: $5. How impossible it is to frame a law to cover adequately such a wide field as that of bank ruptcy is shown by the large amount of litigation which has arisen under the present Bankruptcy Act; even when, as in this case, there was a pre vious Federal Bankruptcy Act, and the decisions thereunder, as a guide in the framing of the present law. It is fortunate for the active prac titioner that bankruptcy decisions of the Federal and State Courts and the opinions of the referees in bankruptcy are brought together promptly in a carefully edited series of reports like that to which the volume before us belongs. The digest ing and the references by the editors, who have made a special study of the subject of bank ruptcy, add much to the value of these reports.