it may not be as immediately interesting to the latter as "The American Commonweath" has proved to be, it may at any rate serve to remind us that we have much to learn in political wisdom from the manner in which our "cousins" in Australia and elsewhere are solving problems with which we are almost afraid to grapple.

A TREATISE ON PLEADING AND PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES, with chapters on Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, Practice at Common Law, Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts, and Writs of Error and Appeals, with special reference to Patent Causes and the Foreclosure of Railway Mortgages. By Roger Foster, of the New York Bar, author of "Foster's Federal Judiciary Acts" and "Trial by Newspaper," and Lecturer on Federal Jurisprudence at the Law School of Yale University. Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1890.

A sufficiently complete treatise on the Practice in the Federal Courts has long been a desideratum, and this want appears to be ably filled in the volume before us. The Federal practice is in many points so peculiar that it cannot receive adequate treatment in less than one good-sized volume. Mr. Foster brings to his work considerable practical experience in the courts in question, and the result will undoubtedly be very useful to the profession.

RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND PRACTICE, at Law, in Equity, and under the Codes. A Treaon American Law in Civil Causes, with a Digest of Illustrative Cases. By John D. Lawson, author of works on Presumptive Evidence, Expert Evidence, Carriers, Usages and Customs, Defenses to Crime, etc. In seven volumes. Vol. IV. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1890.

We have already called attention to the substantial merits which have made this great undertaking, so far, an emphatic

success. The essentially modern character of the work, the sense of the importance of the most recent developments of the law which has everywhere been shown, are more than ever apparent in this volume, more than half of which is devoted to the subject of Bailments; the rest to Negotiable Paper, Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks, and Trusts.

MILLS ON THE LAW OF EMINENT DOMAIN. Second Edition. By Henry E. Mills and Augustus L. Abbott, of the St. Louis Bar. St. Louis The Gilbert Book Co., 1888.

Mills on Eminent Domain has been in the last ten years repeatedly quoted in the courts as the standard, and in fact practically the only complete treatise on its subject. So important has this subject become that it has been found necessary to swell the number of cases cited to nearly one-third more than the 3, 200 of the 3,200 First Edition. This fact may give some idea of the thoroughness of the work accomplished within the limits of this by no means bulky volume.

All Current Cases of General Value and Importance decided in United States, State and Territorial Courts, with full Annotation by Robert Desty, Editor. Burdett A. Rich, Reporter, Editor in Chief of the United States Supreme Court and General Digest-The Publisher's Editorial Staff, and the several Reporters and Judges of each court, assisting in selection. Rochester, N. Y: The Lawyers' Coöperative Publishing Company, 1889.

REPORTS OF CASES ADJUDGED AND DETERMINED IN THE Courts of Chancery of THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Complete Edition, Copiously Annotated by embodying all Equity Jurisprudence, with Tables of Cases Reported and Cited. By Robert Desty. Book VII. Containing Clarke's Chancery, and Sandford's Chancery,

Vols. 1-4. The Lawyers' Coöperative Publishing Company, Rochester, New York, 1889.

These extensive enterprises of the Lawyers' Coöperative Publishing Company deserve a careful examination by all lawyers who are meditating extensive purchases of Reports. By means of compact printing great economy of space is obtained, at no sacrifice of legibility; and in Mr. Desty's annotations, which are very complete, we have the fruits of the labor of an editor of experience, wider, perhaps, than any other in the United States.

TION.

THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIEWS ON PUBLIC EDUCABy John C. Henderson. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890.

It is a frequent thing now-a-days to talk of Jefferson as a political dreamer, but we imagine that few thoughtful men would venture to speak with disrespect of his opinions on the subject of popular education in a free state, so deeply have his opinions thereon become rooted in our national life. These selections, chiefly from Jefferson's correspondence, enable us to learn precisely what were those views of his, without the trouble of searching through his voluminous collected writings. Mr. Henderson has also interspersed the extracts with much interesting and agreeable comment of his own.

THE WORKING PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY in a New and Practical Form. A A book for beginners. By S. M. Macvane, McLean Professor of History in Harvard College. New York: Effingham Maynard & Co., 1890.

This text-book designed, apparently, for use in high schools rather than colleges, certainly accomplishes its author's pur

pose of bringing out the close and vital connection of the principles of Political Economy with every day industry. So satisfactorily is this done that we must take exception to his remark that such a book can make no pretence of being easy reading. It would be a happy thing, indeed, if the text-books on this and other subjects were not so few which have as good a right as this to put forward such a

claim.

PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. Some social studies. By Joseph Henry Crooker. Boston: George H. Ellis, 1889.

Under the above title are grouped a number of suggestive essays on such familiar topics as Moral and Religious Instruction in our Public Schools, Scientific

Charity, and the like, which will well repay a careful reading. Each essay, moreover, is prefaced by a judicious selection of authorities upon the subject treated; a simple expedient which always trebles the value of a book of this kind, and which we should like to see more widely imitated.

PRINCIPLES OF PROCEDURE IN DELIBERATIVE. BODIES. By George Glover Crocker, President Massachusetts Senate, 1883. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.

This manual is, we think, likely to become a great favorite with Debating Societies and other organizalions that need the guidance of intelligible rules of order. A great merit of the book is, that the reasons for things are carefully explained, and the rules are thus deprived of that semblance of arbitrariness which is often found so annoying.

In carrying through the sale and purchase of real estate the first instrument that requires attention is the contract of sale and purchase. Contrary to the impression prevailing among business men, this is an instrument that should be drawn with great care. The following is an approved form.

Agreement made the first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety, between John Smith, of the city of New York, party of the first part, and William Simpson, of said city, party of the second part, in manner following.

The said party of the first part, in consideration of the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be fully paid as hereinafter mentioned, hereby agrees to sell unto the said party of the second part.

Here should follow a description of the premises, expressed with the same fulness and accuracy of detail as is necessary or proper in a deed.]

And the said party of the second part hereby agrees to purchase said premises

at the said consideration of ten thousand dollars, and to pay the same as follows:

Five hundred dollars upon the execution and delivery of this agreement, and nine thousand five hundred dollars upon the delivery of the deed as hereinafter mentioned.

And the said party of the first part, on receiving such payment at the time and in the manner above mentioned, shall, at his own proper costs and expenses, execute, acknowledge and deliver, or cause to be executed, acknowledged and delivered, to the said party of the second part, or to his assigns, a proper deed, containing a general warranty and the usual full covenants, which shall convey and assure to him or them the fee simple of the said premises, free from all encumbrance.

[Here insert exceptions, describing the easements, liens or encumbrances subject to which the property is to be conveyed.]

And which deed shall be delivered on the second day of June, 1890, at 12 o'clock noon, at the office of J. Goodtitle, Esq., Number 26 Wall Street, New York City.