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 Editorial Department the most valuable chapters are those on .Municipal Water Supply and Drainage. THE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINATION. By Fran cis L. Wcllman. New and enlarged edi tion. New York: The Macmillan Com pany. 1904. (404 pp.) It is not often that a law book goes into a second edition within a twelve-month; and it is probable that even this book of Mr. Wellman's, excellent as it is from a purely legal point of view, would not have enjoyed, so quickly, the good fortune of a new edi tion, if it had appealed solely to the mem bers of the legal profession. Mr. Yellman has, however, performed the difficult task of writing a book which is of equal interest to the lawyer and the layman, and which is, without question, the most popular law book of the year. This book, however, has been reviewed at length in our columns so recently (THE GREEN BAG, February, 1904), that it seems necessary to say, at the present time, only that the second edition has been re-written to a considerable extent, and enlarged, partly by the addition of new chapters on "Cross-examination to the Fallacies of Tes timony'' and on "Cross-examination to Probabilities,—Personality of the Exami ner, etc.'', and partly by the bringing in of fresh illustrations. In its present form the book is, more than ever, "sound, interesting and useful." CODE REMEDIES. Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action 'according to the Reformed American Procedure. By John Norton Pomcro. Fourth edition, re vised and enlarged by Thomas A. Bogle. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1904. (с1хх+98з pp.) Since the appearance of the first edition of Pomeroy's Code Remedies in 1875. each decade, roughly speaking, has produced a new edition. This is as it should be. for the work was well done in the first instance,

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and a revision of such a treatise as this, is necessary about once in ten years, in order that the book may keep pace with Code changes and with decisions on pleading un der the Code. A volume dealing with "Re formed Procedure"— the "grand principle'' of which Professor Pomeroy, in the preface to the first edition, defined as "the aboli tion of the distinction between legal and equitable suits, and the substitution of one judicial instrument, by which both legal and equitable remedies may be obtained, either singly or in combination"— is of practical use, of course, to the lawyer practising in those jurisdictions (about half of the entire number of States) where Code pleading has been adopted; but Professor Pomeroy has written with such enthusiasm and knowl edge that his treatise is also of value to the lawyer whose interest in the subject is purely theoretical. The editor of the present edition, Pro fessor Bogle, of the University of Michi gan, has performed his editorial duties with judgment, adding considerable new matter and bringing the citations down to date. CYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND PROCEDURE. Edited by William Mack. Volume xiii. .New York: The American Law Book Com pany. 1904. ("1049 PP-) The thirteenth volume of the Cyclopedia covers topics from Damages to Descendi ble. The principal articles are those on Damages, by Robert Grattan and Frank E. Jennings; Death, by Joseph Walker Magrath and Frank W. Jones; Deeds, by Jos eph A. Joyce and Howard C. Joyce : and De positions, by James Peck Clark. Other im portant contributions are those treating of Dead Bodies, by Frank W. Jones; Action of Debt, by Frank E. Jennings; Dedication, by William Alexander Martin; Depositor ies, by Arthur W. Blakemore; and Deposits in Court, by Everett V. Abbot. The notes are full and valuable, as usual.