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A Brief of the Modes of Proving the Facts Most Frequentlv in Issue or Collater allv in Question on the Trial of Civil or Criminal Cases. By Austin Abbott. Second Edition. By Publisher's Editorial Statf. Rochester, N. Y. : The Lawyer's Co operative Publishing Company. 1901. Law sheep, (xxii +653 pp.) So practical and helpful a book as Abbott's Trial Brief merits a second edition. It is of no little importance to the trial lawyer to have at hand a volume, where at a glance can be found the answers to many difficult practical questions constantly arising in the matter of the admissi bility of evidence and of the modes of proof. This present edition follows the alphabetical arrangement used in the first edition, by far the most convenient arrangement in a work of this character, but adds newchapters, as, for example, those on Insanity, Paternity and Survivorship. Notes xii. on by the Walter United Malms States Pose. Reports. San Francisco, Book Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. Law Sheep, (pp. 1083.) Notes xiii. on Index thetoUnited the twelve States Volumes Reports. of Notes Book on the United States Reports, embracing all prop ositions of law laid down in Supreme Court Decisions, 2 Dallas to 172 United States, by Walter Malins Rose and W. A. Sutherland. San Francisco; Bancroft-Whitney Company. With 1901. theLaw twelfth Sheep, volume (pp.of1050.) these Notes, Mr. Rose has brought this series almost down to date, this present volume covering 1 4 1 - 17 2 United States; so that one may now have at one's elbow, for ready reference, a set of volumes in which can be found at a glance all of the cita tions, both by Federal courts and by courts of last resort of all of the States, of any United States Supreme Court decision, except those in the few latest volumes. The value and con venience of such a work, if well done, is appar ent. In the present instance the scheme of the notes is well conceived, and the work has been carefully and thoroughly done. The thirteenth volume is an index to the preceding volumes; and it is more than that, being, in fact, a brief digest as well as an index. It adds materially to the value of the series.

Atlas and Epitome of Diseases Caused bv Accidents. By Dr. Ed. Golebiewski, of Ber lin. Translated and edited with additions by Pearce Bailey, M.D. Illustrated; including forty colored plates. Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders & Company. 1900. Cloth. (549 PP-) This volume may be classed as a law-book, for the reason that its especial value comes from its consideration of the seriousness or per manency of injuries resulting from accidents in relation to the question of the amount of in demnity which should be awarded in accident cases. In considering a particular disease or injury, the usual medical description is followed by a list of cases showing the extent and dura tion of the injury, and, where this is possible, the insurance allowance actually made in the given cases. To counsel having to deal with accident cases on behalf either of railroads and other large employers of labor, or of accident insurance companies, this treatise will be of value; and equally valuable will it be to counsel for the plaintiff. The American State Reports. Vol. 81. Containing cases of general value and au thority, decided in the Courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco. Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1901. . Law sheep. (1006 pp ) One of the most interesting notes in this present volume is that on " Liabilities of Wrater Companies," which follows the case of Middle sex Water Company v. Knappmann Whiting Company, 64 N. J. L. 240. In the principal case the Water Company was held liable to the de fendant company for loss resulting from the de struction by fire of the defendant's factory by reason of the failure of the water company to fulfill its express contract to supply water to the factory for fire purposes, notwithstanding such failure was due to no fault on the part of the water company. The decision rests on the ex press contract to supply water for fire purposes; in the absence of such express contract the great weight of authority is against such liability. Among other excellent notes are those on Bet terments, on Collateral Attacks on the right of an acting administrator, and on Appurtenances.