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 THE PUBLISHER'S THE LAST RESORT When you have a very important question on which you are unable to find authorities to suit you in text-books, digests and encyclopaedias, there is still one recourse for the lawyer who knows how to use law-books, and that is, — the law periodicals. For generations learned lawyers who have not had time to write law-books have contributed to the law journals of their day, articles which em bodied months or years of research on topics not then (or now) so fully covered elsewhere in law literature. THAYER'S LEGAL ESSAYS, just published, —collects in book form a dozen such articles, and shows their value; — but the writings of a thousand other lawyers and law professors and judges have not yet had the for tune to be thus edited and collected, but remain scattered and hidden in the bound volumes of English, British Colonial and American legal periodicals. And not entirely hidden, either. There is a work (2 vols., $20.00 net) entitled INDEX TO LEGAL PERI ODICALS, by HON. LEONARD. B. JONES, the well known author of treatises on Mortgages, etc., in which he has provided for his brethren a key to all this valuable literature. He who lyiows how to use this key need not stop baffled when he fails to find good law through ordinary channels, but can delve deeper than his opponents, and find where some sound law yer, after laboring months and years to brief a diffi cult point of law, has put in print and left for another generation, the fruit of his thorough investiga tions. To exhaust this recondite source of argument, one must have./?™/ JONES'S INDEX, and next— the sets of periodicals. Every lawyer who has a decent library ought to own the INDEX. If he has a very large library of his own, he ought to buy for it sets of the leading American and English law periodicals. If he cannot spare money or space for such bulky series, he ought to see to it that the nearest Bar or State Library has a complete collection to which he can refer in case of sudden need.

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Every State Library or library used by judges of the courts, ought surely to have a complete collection of sets of legal periodicals, because a judge when doubtful as to the merits of a case which has been presented to the court, may want to go behind and below the arguments of counsel, and seek for him self the most thorough examination of the point of law in issue, that can be found in all the books, and the most thorough discussion is very possibly in the periodicals rather than in text-books and decisions. THE BOSTON BOOK Co. is the only firm which makes a specialty of law periodicals. On p. 7 of their LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, Vol. 3, No. 5 (January, 1908), may be found a list of 114 complete sets which they then had for sale.

JUST PUBLISHED List 56. — SECOND-HAND TEXT-BOOKS AND ELE MENTARY TREATISES FOR SALE. Sent free oj cost on application. THAYER'S LEGAL ESSAYS (mainly on Constitutional Law). Cloth, $3.50.

HALSBURY'S LAW OF ENGLAND. Vol. I. £7.50. WOOD AND RITCHIE'S DIGEST OF ENGLISH OVER RULED CASES. 3 Vols. $25.00. THE GERMAN CIVIL CODE (translated into English). Cloth, $5.00.

READY IN APRIL STIMSON'S LAW OF THE FEDERAL AND STATE CON STITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. Cloth,

^•SOREADY IN MAY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME (27) TO ENGLISH RULING CASES. Sheep, #5.50. BEST ON EVIDENCE, WITH CHAMBERLAYNE'S AMERICAN NOTES BROUGHT DOWN TO DATE. Buckram, #3.50.

RECENTLY ISSUED List 55. — SCHOLARLY, HISTORICAL, AND INTER ESTING LAW BOOKS FOR SALE. Sent free of cost on application.