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son on the service done by lawyers in making the everyday law of the people what it is; of Judge George Gray on " The Judiciary "; of George Wharton Pepper, Esq., on " The Univer sity of Pennsylvania "; of John E. Parsons, Esq., on " The American Lawyer," and of Richard C. Dale, Esq., on " The Philadelphia Lawyer." It is a matter of congratulation that these excep tionally good addresses have been brought to gether in permanent form. The American State Reports. Vols. 82, 83. Containing cases of general value and au thority, decided in courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1902. Law sheep. (1059 pp., 1015 pp.) The notes in this series of reports are, as a rule, so excellent that one is sometimes tempted to consider the case as merely the hook on which the note is hung, and to leave the case itself unread. The two volumes before us draw from the reports of twenty-eight States, and in clude some cases decided as late as June, 1901. In the earlier volume the principal notes deal with " Evidence admissible as bearing on the Credibility or Bias of a Witness," with " Liability of Notaries "; with Judicial Notice of Localities and Boundaries "; with " the Effect of Writings in favor of ' Trustee,' but not indicating the Beneficiary or the Terms of the Trust "; and with the question of " What Covenants run with the Land." Volume 83, on the other hand, treats in its notes with such questions — among others — as these : " Power to create Liens by Receivers "; " Contracts between Attorneys and Clients"; Lienor of Vendor of Personalty"; "Mechanics' Liens on Separate Property of Married Women "; " The Effect of changes in By-Laws of Beneficial Associations against Pre existing Members "; " Agreements respecting the living separate and apart of Husband and Wife "; and " Extra territorial Effect of Decrees of Divorce." Cvclopedia of Law and Procedure. Edited by William Mack and Howard P. Nash. Vol. III. New York: The American Law Book Company. 1902. Law sheep. (1112 pp.)

About a year ago, on the appearance of the the first volume, we spoke in a commendatory way of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure. The good impression which that volume made upon us is strengthened by an examination of the one now before us. This third volume embraces subjects from "Appeal and Error " (which, however, was treated, in part, in .the preceding volume) to "Assignee." The most important article is the one with which the volume opens, written by Hon. Walter Clark, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Mr. Justice Clark, who is not without experience as a writer of law books, will be remembered by readers of The Green Bag as the author of the articles on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, printed in volume IV of this magazine. His contri bution to the Cyclopedia is a treatise of five hun dred pages on " Appeal and Error," — a length which enables him to treat the subject with sat isfactory fulness. An interesting article, on a subject which lies outside the knowledge of the average lawyer, is that by Mr. Justice Sharpe, of Alabama, on " Army and Navy," although the sub-title " Courts of Inquiry " is not treated with such detail as might be wished. Among the other important articles are those on " Arbi tration and Award," " Arrest," and " Assault and Battery." The Law and Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in Justices' Courts and in other Courts not of Record, and on Ap peals to the Countv Courts in the State of New York. By William Wait. Seventh edition, by Edwin Baylies, LL.D. In three volumes. Vol. I. Albany, N. Y. : Matthew Bender. 1902.. Law sheep: $6.35 per vol ume, Wait's Law (lxxi + and 954 Practice, pp.) which was first pub lished in 1865, has reached its seventh edition, the first volume of which has already appeared. The present volume treats, among other subjects, those of the Law of Contracts, Chattel Mortgages, Landlord and Tenant, Agency, Part nership. Bailment, Bills of Exchange and Prom issory Notes, Sale, and the Statute of Frauds. The present edition has been revised and brought down to date. It would seem to be in dispensable to the New York practitioner.