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 Reviews of Books given, however, that at some future time the work will be brought down to date.

It is as a publicist rather than as a practi tioner of law that Mr. Bigelow appears in these volumes, and their luminous account of cer tain historical episodes will greatly interest students of our own Civil War and of the

foreign policy of France and the United States. Such matters as the Trent affair, the death of Toussaint L’Ouverture, French interference in Mexico and the Monroe doctrine, the Alabama claims and various questions of maritime law, Confederate navy building in France, and the authorship of a

poetical tribute to our martyred President in Punch, are a few examples of numerous topics which may be seen in a new light, and on which new facts are brought forward hitherto secreted in the ﬁles of unpublished private and official letters. Weighty as is all this historical material, the author is never perfunctory in presenting it, but introduces keen comment of his own on men and events, and strings his pearls of self-revealing cor respondence on the thread of his own strongly individualized narrative. It is a work ex traordinarily rich in human interest, com pletely devoid of the desultory and slipshod manner that one associates with senility, and so full of vigor and vitality that one marvels at the intellectual energy which betrays no sign of diminution in this ninety-third year of the author's age.

ESTATE ACCOUNTING Theory and Practice of Estate Accounting; for Accountants, Lawyers. Executors, Adminis trators and Trustees. BayFrederick H. Baugh. expert accountant, and illiam C. Schmeisser, A. B., LL.B., of the Baltimore bar. M. Curlander, Baltimore. Pp. xxviii, 286+index 33. (84 net.)

RITTEN primarily from the point of view of the accountant, this book is also designed to be of use to the lawyer. It is pointed out that while in the case of a small estate the lawyer may not ﬁnd it neces sary to call in an accountant, he will ﬁnd his services indispensable, sooner or later, if the ‘estate is one of a man of means with many diﬁerent interests.

The accountant, however,

must have some knowledge of testamentary law, because estate accounting is very unlike commercial accounting, and this work is designed to provide a handbook which will enable the expert to keep the accounts in proper legal form, while also embracing tech

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nical information for the lawyer covering every important topic of probate practice and administration. The book is arranged upon a simple and logical plan, and is marked by the thorough ness with which each topic is covered. N umer ous illustrations show how the books of the estate should be kept. The method of sepa rating the corpus of the estate from the income is gone into fully. References to decided cases have been omitted, because there would have been room for only incomplete citation and because the accountant is not skilled in the use of reports. Instead, text-books have been utilized, the

principal references being to Schouler on Executors and Administrators, Schouler on Wills, and Loring's Trustees’ Handbook. The book is compact with useful informa tion and well serves the purpose for which it is designed.

WARE'S “FROM COURT TO COURT" HE fourth edition of the useful pamphlet of Mr. Eugene F. Ware of the Kansas City bar, entitled uFrom Court to Court," recently issued, will be welcomed because of its lucid and workmanlike presentation of the method of taking cases from a state court to the United States Supreme Court. It is a prac tical handbook to be commended to the atten tion of all who may never have seen it, who will ﬁnd it desirable to keep always in some place on their desks where it can be readily reached. The new edition contains a mass of practical information, intelligently gathered and ad mirably arranged, and it makes a well written and well printed booklet, of such substantial

quality as to be well worth a higher price than that which pamphlet literature usually com mands. (Published by the author; 82.)

NOTE

John K. M. Ewing of 60 Wall street, New York, has originated a new system to be used in the trial of cases in the moot courts of law schools. This is a departure from the system in common use in this respect: Knowing only the general nature of his adversary's case, learning that case bit by bit, by questions and answers. appreciating when to interrupt and object as the case unfolds. noting in passing what facts are to be controverted, what facts are to be overlooked, marshaling his own witnesses, and bringing out by a series of pertinent questions the material facts of the case, the student