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Editorial Department. A Treatise NEW on Federal LAW Practice. BOOKS.

By Roger

Foster. Third edition. Two volumes. Chi cago : Callaghan & Co. 1901. (clxxxv -+1655 pp.) This work in its present form is the result of a process of evolution. The first edition (1890) was exclusively devoted to equity, that being the most important branch as to which the pleading and procedure of the State courts cannot be accepted as a safe guide in the courts of the United States. The book in that early form was so acceptable to the profession that in the second edition (1892) the author enlarged its scope. In that step he received the hearty approval of the profession. There appears now this third edition, which embraces the practice of the Federal courts in civil cases of all kinds — equity, common law, admiralty and bankruptcy. In addition to the Federal courts of ordinary jurisdiction the work deals with the Court of Claims and the Court of Private Land Claims. It has also chapters on removal of causes, and writs of error and appeals. It continues to give special attention to equity, and on this branch it is useful in the State courts. This peculiarity of the work gives it exceptional value on account of the recent increase in the resort to equitable remedies; and in this connection it is interesting to notice that the modern development of the use of the injunction in labor disputes has been well taken care of in the text and notes. There is an appendix of forms and rules of court. The whole work is, as it ought to be, of a prac tical nature; but it has scholarly merit, also, and is fully entitled to the favor with which it has been received. The Bench and Bar as Makers of the American Republic. By W. W. Goodrich. With portraits. New York: E. B. Treat and Company. 1901. Boards: fifty cents. (65 PP) This volume contains an address by Judge Goodrich, of the New York Supreme Court, Ap pellate Division, delivered on Forefathers' day, 1900, the two hundred and eightieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. Beginning with the Colonial period, when lawyers were not looked upon with favor — although, as is pointed

out, a few of the leaders, like Winthrop613 and Bellingham, had been educated for the Bar,— Judge Goodrich considers in turn the later Colo nial period, the Continental Congresses, and the Constitutional period, ending in 1789; then the formative period of the country, ending with the Civil War; and finally the National period, coming down to the present time; referring in each period to the movements in which theBench and the Bar bore a distinguished part, and to the judges and lawyers who were instru mental in the work of upbuilding the Nation. There are in the book portraits of Jay, Jefferson, Marshall and Lincoln. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases. By Austin Abbott. Assisted by William C. Beecher. Second edition. By Publishers' Editorial Staff. Rochester: The Lawvers' Cooperative Publishing Company. 1902. (xx-f-814 pp.) This is an excellent working volume for the practitioner whose work lies in whole or in part in the criminal courts. The arrangement of the various topics treated is, so to speak, chrono logical; that is, the different subjects are taken up in about the order in which they would be reached in the normal progress of a criminal cause carried through to sentence. Roughly speaking, one third of the volume is devoted to the subject of evidence. The statements of prop ositions of law are concise, and the citations of cases in support of them are, it would seem, sufficiently full. The Law of Domestic Relations of the State of New York. By Frank B. Gilbert. Second edition. By F. W. Battershall. Al bany : Matthew Bender. 1902. Law sheep: $3. (xii + 349 pp.) This volume treats of the Domestic Relations Law, the Real Property Law, and the Codes of Civil and of Criminal Procedure, as amended by the legislature of 1902, so far as these laws and codes deal with the subject of Domestic Rela tions. The important earlier decisions, and all the recent decisions, bearing on these statutes are cited. Since the first edition was published the most important statutory changes have been that