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The Record Interpreter: A Collection of Abbreviations, Latin Words and Names used in English Historical Manuscripts and Records. Compiled by CHARLES TRICE MARTIN. London: Reeves & Turner. 1892. 8vo. x and 341 pp. This is an unpretentious but thoroughly useful little book. The first part of it consists of a list of those words which medieval scribes were wont to write compendiously, the second of a glossary of low Latin words, the third of a list of the Latin names borne by places in Great Britain and Ireland. A small book of this kind is just what the decipherer of English legal records very often wants. He could not be always carrying about with him the fourth volume of Hardy's 'Registrum Dunelmense,' and from time to time he would be in need of some brief hand list, over which he could glance in order that he might know what to look for in the pages of Ducange. Mr. Martin's book should serve his turn. We have noted some omissions; for example, does not the capital R. very often stand for responsio? Still no book of this size-and its small size is one of its great meritswill solve every riddle devised by those pen-men who were economical of their parchment.

The Revised Reports, being a republication of such cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the year 1785, as are still of practical utility. Edited by SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, assisted by R. CAMPBELL and O. A. SAUNDERS. Vol. III. 1794-1796. (2 Vesey Jr.-3 Vesey (to p. 299)-6 T. R.—2 H. Bl.—1-2 Anstruther-1 Peake-Leach Cr. Ca.6 Bro. P.C.) London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1892. La. 8vo. xvi and 754 pp. (258)—The learned reader may conveniently be notified that '6 Bro. P.C.' is represented by one case, preserved in a separate form, alone among the verbiage of Brown's eight volumes, because it was an appeal from Scotland. English cases reported by Brown (so far as still of practical utility) have been incorporated with the report in the court below.

The Law of Real Property; chiefly in relation to Conveyancing. By H. W. CHALLIS. Second Edition. London: Reeves & Turner. 1892. La. 8vo. xxxii and 466 pp. (208.)-This book has approved itself as what Mr. Challis meant it to be, a trustworthy guide to the fundamental principles of Real Property law. More than one other book professes to be an easier introduction to the subject. But the reader who has learnt from Mr. Challis will have learnt, not merely how to get through the common run of business without making bad mistakes, but what to do with real difficulties when they occur. He will have nothing to unlearn, and few things will take him by surprise. Mr. Challis's dedication to Mr. W. B. Trevelyan will give pleasure to those who know how well the praise of Mr. Trevelyan's learning is deserved. Readers of this REVIEW will recognise in the appendix some articles contributed by Mr. Challis at different times, and will again regret their almost gnomic brevity.

Law and Practice of Divorce and other Matrimonial Causes. By W. JOHN DIXON. Second Edition. London: Reeves & Turner. 1891. 8vo. xciv and 721 pp.-The title of this book very fairly describes its contents. It is divided into two heads, Law' and Practice.' Under the first head will be found full descriptions inter alia of the requisites to a valid marriage and of jurisdiction on matrimonial causes as affected by domicile. The table of cases presents a little novelty: there is attached to each case a very few

words stating the nature of the points raised in it. The index appears to be full. We think that this book will be found useful to practitioners in matrimonial causes.

Hints us to advising on Title and practical suggestions for perusing and analysing abstracts, with an outline of the Law relating to title to land and Tables of Stamp Duties since 1815. By W. H. GOVER. Second Edition. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1892. 8vo. xxxii and 181 pp.-This second edition has been called for little more than two years after the publication of the first. A book so received by the most critical branch of the profession needs little further commendation.

A Study of Influenza, and the Laws of England concerning Infectious Diseases. A paper read before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, January 18, 1892. By RICHARD SISLEY, M.D. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1892. La. 8vo. 119 pp. (38. 6d.)-The general upshot of this tract is that the legislature and persons in sanitary and other authority were as much surprised by the influenza as everybody else. Dr. Sisley points out some curious and apparently useless differences between the general Public Health Act and the recent special Act for London. Let us hope that his warnings will not have been forgotten whenever influenza returns. As he says, people do not yet understand how much more important and practicable-prevention is than cure. We still live in the Drug tant-and Age.'

The Solicitor's Clerk, a handy book upon the ordinary practical work of a Solicitor's Office, &c. By CHARLES JONES. Second and revised edition. London: Effingham Wilson & Co. 1892. 12mo. 252 pp. (28. 6d.)—This appears to be a sensible and practical manual. The advice to young clerks in the important and too much neglected matter of handwriting is especially good. Bankers' clerks, we may add, always write, as Mr. Jones advises, from the arm, not from the wrist. A chapter is given to shorthand, rightly enough. We suspect, however, that Mr. Jones will have to add a chapter on type-writing to the third edition.

The Law and Practice of the Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford, in the County of Lancaster. By J. HARVEY SIMPSON. Manchester: Meredith, Ray & Littler. 1892. 8vo. viii and 196 pp.-Her Majesty's Court for the Hundred or Wapentake of Salford has been described by Parliament as a Court of ancient jurisdiction, but for more than twenty years it has been a thing of statutory rules and forms. Apparently there has been no book on its practice since 1859, so Mr. Simpson has done a much needed piece of work for local practitioners.

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An Exposition of English Law by English Judges, compiled for the use of layman and lawyer from the most recent decisions (1886-1891). By J. A. NEALE. London: W. Clowes & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. xxxiii and 224 pp. (128. 6d.)—This is neither more nor less than a commonplace book limited to extracts from English decisions of the last five years. any lay reader gets hold of it and imagines that detached sentences from this and that judgment are not an imperfect commentary upon the law, but the law itself,' some odd consequences may be expected. On at least one important and unsettled point (whether a corporation can be liable for malicious prosecution) Mr. Neale reproduces a strong extra-judicial dictum without any warning that it is not decisive. At the beginning of O two

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headings of Oaths Act' and 'Obiter Dicta' have been mixed up in a grotesque fashion. On the whole, we cannot say this is a book of practical

utility.

A Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts. By the Right Hon. SIR EDWARD FRY, one of the Lords Justices of Appeal. Third edition. By the AUTHOR and E. P. FRY. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. xci and 836 pp. (368.)-Some interesting historical matter is added to this edition. The learned author dissents from the decision of his brethren in Bolton v. Lambert, 41 Ch. Div. 295. Further notice will follow in the July number.

The Law of Musical and Dramatic Copyright. By E. CUTLER, Q.C., T. EUSTACE SMITH, and F. E. WEATHERLY. Revised Edition. London : Cassell & Co., Lim. 1892. I 2mo. iv and 172 pp. (38. 6d.)—This little book has already been favourably noticed in these pages (L. Q. R. vii. 88). In the present edition the recent case of Moul v. Groenings ('91, 2 Q. B. 443) is discussed, and the American Copyright Act is given in an Appendix. Fishburn v. Hollingshead (discussed by T. E. S. in our January number) is also cited, and we learn that the parties accepted the decision as final.

A Selection of Leading Cases in the Criminal Law (founded on Shirley's Leading Cases). With Notes. By HENRY WARBURTON. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. 8vo. xxiv and 272 pp. (98.)-As in some other modern selections, the leading cases are not reported, only abridged. It would be proper in any future edition to insert in the title the word 'abridged,' or other words conveying the like intimation. Whatever its possible uses may be, such a book is essentially different from a book that reproduces the selected cases at large.

The Platform its rise and progress. By HENRY JEPHSON. 8vo. 2 vols. xx and 586, xiv and 625 pp. London: Macmillan & Co. 1892. (308. net.) -This is a full history of extra-parliamentary political speaking in England, and the increase of its practical influence in politics. It is not within the province of this REVIEW to say more of it than that the incidental statements about the law of public meetings and speeches appear to have been carefully framed, and to be correct so far as they go.

Wharton's Law-Lexicon: forming an epitome of the Law of England, &c. Ninth Edition. By J. M. LELY. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. 793 pp. (388.)-We regret that no attempt has been made to revise the antiquarian articles. The next best course would have been to omit them altogether.

The Parliamentary Election Manual: a practical Handbook on the Law and Conduct of Parliamentary Elections in Great Britain and Ireland, &c. By T. C. H. HEDDERWICK. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. 12mo. xxix and 324 pp.-Mr. Hedderwick's manual seems to be clear and well arranged, and its publication is cunningly timed.

Partnership and Companies: A Manual of Practical Law. By PERCY F. WHEELER. London: A. & C. Black. 1892. 8vo. xiv and 300 pp. (58.)-Business men who are not lawyers may possibly find this book useful. It appears to be clear and readable. The references to authorities are so scanty as to show that it is not intended for professional use.

The Annual Digest of all the Reported Decisions of the Superior Courts,

including a selection from the Irish... during the year 1891. By JOHN MEWS. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim.; Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. xxxv and 411 pp. (158.)

The Complete Annual Digest of every reported case in all the Courts, for the year 1891. Edited by ALFRED EMDEN. Compiled by H. THOMPSON and W. A. BRIGG. London: W. Clowes & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. lviii pp. and 442 columns. (158.)

Boundaries of Counties and Parishes in Scotland, as settled by the Boundary Commissioners under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889. By HAY SHENNAN. Edinburgh: W. Green & Sons. 1892. 8vo. xxxvi and 397 pp. The Law of Trading and other Companies, formed or registered under the Companies Act, 1862. By EDWARD MANSON. London: W. Clowes & Sons, Lim. 1892. La. 8vo. cxxvii and 966 pp. (358.)

La condition de la propriété dans le nord de la France: Le droit de marché. Par J. LEFORT. Paris: E. Thorin. 1892. 8vo. vii and 223 pp.

Rogers on Elections: Part II. Elections and Petitions, Parliamentary, Municipal, and Local Government, with Appendices of Statutes, Rules and Forms. Sixteenth Edition. By S. H. Day. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1892. 8vo. xxxii and 900 pp. (218.)

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Being a List of all Cases cited in Judgments reported in the "Law Reports," "Law Journal," "Law Times," and "Weekly Reporter," from Michaelmas Term, 1865, to the end of 1890, with the places where they are so cited. By GEORGE JOHN TALBOT and HUGH FORT, of the Inner Temple, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law. "This is an invaluable tool for the worker among cases.

The way in which the tool is to be used is this: you find a case that appears to decide the question you have in hand, but you want to know whether it has been subsequently judicially questioned or confirmed. You turn to the name of the case, given in large type in this work, and you find following it in smaller type the names, references to reports, and dates of every reported case since 1865 in the judgments of which it has been in any way noticed."-Solicitors' Journal.

Roscoe's Nisi Prius.-A Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius. Sixteenth Edition. By MAURICE POWELL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 1891. Price £2 1os. cloth.

"Continues to be a vast and closely packed storehouse of information on practice at Nisi Prius." -Law Journal.

Roscoe's Criminal Law.-A Digest of the Law of Evidence

in Criminal Cases. Eleventh Edition. By HORACE SMITH and GILBERT GEORGE KENNEDY, Esqrs., Metropolitan Police Magistrates. Demy 8vo. 1890. Price £1 11s. 6d. cloth.

"What Roscoe says, most judges will accept without question."-Law Times.

Smith's Compendium of Mercantile Law.-Tenth Edition. By JOHN MACDONELL, Esq., a Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature, assisted by GEO. HUMPHREYS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. 1890. Price £2 25. cloth.

"Of the greatest value to the mercantile lawyer.”—Law Times, March 22, 1890.

Williams' Law and Practice in Bankruptcy.Comprising the Bankruptcy Acts, 1883 to 1890, the Bankruptcy Rules, 1886, 1890, the Debtors Acts, 1869, 1878, the Bankruptcy (Discharge and Closure) Act, 1887, and the Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887. By the Hon. Sir ROLAND VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, one of the Justices of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice. Fifth Edition. By EDWARD WM. HANSELL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 8vo. 1891. Price 25s. cloth. "A safe and useful guide to practitioners.”—Law Quarterly Review.

"This book will now, if possible, since the appointment of its distinguished author as Bankruptcy Judge, take higher rank as an authority than before."-Law Journal.`

Thring's Joint Stock Companies' Law.-The Law

and Practice of Joint Stock and other Companies, including the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1886, with Notes, Orders, and Rules in Chancery, a Collection of Precedents of Memoranda and Articles of Association, and other Forms required in Making and Administering a Company. Also the Partnership Law Amendment Act, the Life Assurance Companies Act, and other Acts relating to Companies. By LORD THRING, K.C.B., formerly the Parliamentary Counsel. Fifth Edition. By J. M. RENDEL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 8vo. 1889. Price £1 10s. cloth. "The highest authority on the subject.”—The Times.

Russell's Awards.-A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator, and the Law of Submissions and Awards; with an Appendix of Forms, and of the Statutes relating to Arbitration. By FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq., Barrister-atLaw. Sixth Edition. By the Author and HERBERT RUSSELL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 8vo. 1891. Price £1 10s. cloth.

"Almost a necessity to every practising lawyer."-Law Quarterly Review. "Comprehensive, accurate, and practical.”—Solicitors' Journal.

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