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abolishing the " common-law marriage " prov able by cohabitation and reputation, and requir ing such marriage to be evidenced by a writing, and that allowing corespondents to intervene in divorce proceedings. The complete* set of forms which is added to the present edition adds materially to its prac tical value. Elements ok the Law of Real Propertv. With leading and illustrative cases. By Grant Newell. Chicago: T. H. Flood and Com pany. 1902. (xii+438 pp.) This is a book for the student who wishes to get a bird's-eye view of the wide subject of real property, rather than for the practitioner who desires to study exhaustively some particular •question. It is no easy problem to condense in two hundred and fifty pages even the elements of real property; and that Professor Newell has succeeded as well as he has in this task is due in part, doubtless, to his experience as a teacher of law. The last third of the volume is given over to some forty leading cases from various American courts, Federal and State. We note one misprint, on page forty-five, where in a note, son's. Stimson's American Statute Law is cited as San

The American State Reports. Vol. 86. Containing cases of general value and au thority, decided in courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported and an notated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1902. (ion pp.) The cases in this volume are taken from cur rent or recent reports in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachu setts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The more important notes are those on " Re lief in Equity from Forfeitures; " " Unauthorized Alteration of Written Instruments; " " Lien for Purchase Money of Homesteads; " " Constitu tionality of Code Amendment or Revision;" "Recrimination as Defense in Divorce Proceed ings; " "What is an Abuse of Lawful Process and the Liability therefor; " " Liability of a Property Owner for a Nuisance which he did not create; " " Loss of one Office by accepting

Another; " " What Declarations are Admissible as Dying Declarations and in what Cases;" "When a Bank does not take Title to Money deposited with or collected by it, and the Right to recover such Money upon the Insolvency of the Bank." De Forge v. Railroad, 178 Mass. 59, offered the chance (which was not availed of) for an interesting note on X-ray pictures. The Criminal Code and the* Law of Crim inal Evidence in Canada. By W.J. Tremeear. Toronto: Canada Law Book Company. This 1902.volume Half law is ansheep, annotation (xl of934 the pp.) Criminal Code of Canada, and of the Evidence Act, 1893, as amended to the present time, especial atten tion being given to the rules of evidence and the procedure in criminal courts. Under the re spective sections of the Code and of the Act are cited the important Canadian and English cases; there are also cross-references, which are of material assistance in following up any particu lar subject. Parallel English statutes are also cited. The volume seems to be a good working law-book. The Woman's Manual of Law. By Mary A. Greene. Boston : Silver, Burdett and Com pany. 1902. Buckram: $1.50. (xvi + 284 PP-) This Manual is hardly a law-book in the ordi nary sense, since it is intended for the use not of the legal profession, but of the layman-— or rather woman. The author's object is to pre sent to the woman without legal training the principles of law governing domestic life and such business matters as most commonly claim the attention of women in the care of their own property; necessarily the treatment of the subject is on broad and general lines. Practice Time Table. By H. Noycs Greene. Second edition. Albany : Matthew Bender. 1902. Buckram: $2. (xi+ 264 pp.) As a time-saver. this small volume will be of value to the busy New York lawyer, who will find here, under an alphabetical arrangement, the times required for each step in the practice of law in his State. It is, in fact, a convenient digest of the Praetice Laws in New York.