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NEW LAW BOOKS.

.// is the intention of The Green Bag to have its book reviews written by competent reviewers. The usual custom of magazines is to confine book notices to books sent in for review. At the request of subscribers, however, The Green Bag will be glad to review or notice any recently published law book, whether re ceivedfor review or not. THE ELEMENTS OF THE LAW OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. By John W. Daniel and Chas. A. Douglass. New York: Baker, Yoorhis and Company. 1903. Buckram. (xxi+4i8 pp.) This volume, intended for the use of stu dents and of instructors in law schools, is based in part upon Daniel on Negotiable In struments and in part upon lectures deliv ered by Mr. Douglass in the Law Depart ment of Georgetown University. In. gen eral, the order of the larger treatise is fol lowed, although certain changes are to be noted; as, for example, the discussion in the present volume of "Presentment for Accep tance, and Acceptance," and of "Present ment for- Payment" is in Book IV", "Fixing Liability to Pay the Instrument," while in Daniel on Negotiable Instruments the same subjects are to be found in Book III, "The Negotiation of the Instrument." Book VI in the larger work is omitted altogether from the smaller. The text of the New York Negotiable Instruments Act (with references to similar acts in twenty-one other States and Territories) is given in an appendix. For the reason.that we expect shortly to print in these columns an adequate review of the last edition of Daniel on Negotiable In struments, we- refrain from saying of.the; present volume more than,that the worj&of condensation is well done. '• rt^iji

tions. An appendix gives the interpleader statutes of all the States and Territories, and also of England, Ireland, Scotland, the British colonies, and Japan. THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS. Volume 89. Containing the cases of general inter est and authority decided in the courts of last resort of the several States. Selected, reported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Com pany. 1903. (1052 pp.) • The eighty-ninth volume of this useful se ries of reports draws its cases from 130 Ala bama, 136 California, 28 Colorado, 42 Flor ida, 196 Illinois, 94 Maryland, 127 Michigan, 80, 85 Minnesota, 79 Mississippi, 166 Mis souri, 62 Nebraska, 171 New York, 130 North Carolina, 62 South Carolina, and 107 Tennessee. The range of subjects dealt with in the notes is wide, the longer notes in the present volume. being those on Estoppel of a Tenant to Deny His Landlord's Title, The Common-Law Powers of Guardians, What Constitutes a Testamentary Writing. The Effects of the Consolidation of Corpor ations, The Right of Privacy—When and Hbw It May Be Enforced, Admissibility'oi Evidence of Threats in Prosecutions for Homicide, and Party-walls.

THE LAW AND PRACTICE RELATING TO REFEREES, REFERENCES AND ARBITRATION. By L. L. Boyce. Albany, N. Y.: Matthew Bender. 1903. Law sheep, $4.50. (xiii+ 456 pp.) This manual treats of the powers and du ties of referees and arbitrators under the Code of Civil Procedure and Statutes of the State of New York, and contains references of the latest decisions. A full set of forms, ' given in the Appendix, adds materially to the Like other THE LAW OF INTERPLEADER. By Roderick '.' practical value of the book. James Madcnnan. Toronto: The Carswell • similar volumes—two of them 'by the same author—dealing with special subjects under Company. 1901. (xxx-f-464 pp.) the New York practice, which have been This is a praiseworthy piece of worth, cov ering the • law of England, Ireland, Can published recently bj^the same publisher, the ada, Australia, and America. The American present treatise will be of value to New York cases constitute the great body of the cita lawyers as a book of ready reference. '"