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corporate gain in emolument, then a different rule of liability is applied and they are generally held responsible for injuries arising from their negligent acts or -their omissions to the same ex tent as a private corporation under like circum stances." It is this analysis of the various municipal functions whereby they may be classed under one head or the other, that constitutes the theme of the work. The difficulties that have confronted the courts in their efforts to classify those duties which occupy a middle ground, and have in so many states resulted in statutory enactments to settle the, vexed questions, are ablyset forth and citations froin the law courts of the various states are given with sufficient com pleteness. Particularly helpful is the full dis cussion of the liability of municipal corporations relative to streets and highways. THE LAW OF AGENCY, INCLUDING THE LAW OF PRINCIPAL AND AGENT AND THE LAW OF MAS TER AND SERVANT. BY Ernest W. Huffad. Second edition. Boston : Little, Brown & Company. 1.901. Buckram, $3.00; law sheep, §3.50. (li+400 pp.) This book does not aspire to a place among standard works for the practitioner; but it is useful to students wishing a rapid review just before examination for the bar. The present edition is an improvement upon its predecessor both in scope and in execution. THF. LAW OF REAL PROPERTY. Vol. 7. Edited by Emerson E. Ballard. Logansport, Indiana: Ballard Publishing Co. 1901. (xxxi+884 pp.) A COMPLETE INDEX то BALLARD'S LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, VOLUMES I—VII. BY Emerson E. Ballard. Logansport, Indiana : The Ballard Publishing Company. 1901. (144 pp.) This seventh volume brings down to date a series which aims to be a complete compendium of real estate law, embracing all current case law on this subject. The present volume is de voted especially to new cases, thus making it a supplement, as it were, to the preceding vol umes. The plan of the book is to treat the subject of real property under some one hun dred general heads, alphabetically arranged; under some heads printing in full an important

recent decision, but in all cases giving an epit ome of cases, arranged under sub-headings. LAW OF REAL PROFERTA'. By Charles T. Boonc. New Practitioners' Series. 3 volumes. Second edition. San Francisco: Bancroft -Whitney Company. 1901. Law sheep: $9.00. These volumes are a cross between a digest and a treatise on the law of real property; in other words, they give a very concise statement of the law on this general subject, starting with the Nature of Real Property and working on down the important heads into which the subject divides itself naturally. It is, what it purports to be, a handy manual of the principles of law relating to real property; and is of value to either the student or the practitioner who wishes to see at a glance what has been decided on a par ticular point and where that decision is to be found. THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS. Vol. 79. Con taining cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of last resort. Selected, reported and annotated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. Law sheep. ' (1050 pp.) This last volume of an excellent series covers cases as late, for example, as 176 Massachusetts, and draws from the recent California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania State, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Washington reports, besides the Massachusetts report above named. The wide range of law covered by this series of reports is seen by glancing at the titles of the principal notes in the present volume, which are as follows: The Causes for which the Legisla ture will authorize the Sale of Real Property of Decedents; Constitutionality of Statutes allow ing an Attorney's Fee; Who are Related by Af finity; What Marriages are Void; When does the Title of a Statute embrace but one Subject, and What may be included thereunder; Consti tutionality of Civil Service Laws; Partnership after Death; What Words create Conditions Subsequent; and Title acquired by Purchaser at his own Execution Sale. As usual these monographic notes are well done.