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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1888. 



Corporations other than Municipal," F. S. 

 "Wait " A Practical Treatise on Insolvent Cor- 

 porations," and H. Binmore "A Digest of the 

 American Corporation Cases." " American 

 and English Corporation Cases," by W. M. 

 McKinney, reached Vol. XX, and " American 

 and English Railroad Cases," by the same au- 

 thor, Vol. XXXIII. A. S. Bolles wrote on 

 "The National Bank Act and its Judicial 

 Meaning," and Nathan Newmark on " The 

 Laws Relating to Bank Deposits." " A Treat- 

 ise on the Law of Benefit Societies, and, Inci- 

 dentally, of Life Insurance," by F. H. Bacon, 

 " The Law of Voluntary Societies and Mutual 

 Benefit Insurance," by W. C. Niblack, and 

 " A Digest of the Law of Insurance," by J. R. 

 Berryman, practically exhaust this subject. J. 

 Lewis wrote "A Treatise on the Law of Emi- 

 nent Domain in the United States," and W. 

 H. Manier "The Law of Eminent Domain and 

 of Railroads and Warehouses." " A Selection 

 of Cases in the Law of Quasi-Contracts " was 

 begun by W. Albert Keener, and the first vol- 

 ume completed. Clifford Boese wrote "A 

 Hand-book on Naturalization, 1 ' and B. K. and 

 W. F. Elliott were jointly engaged on " The 

 Work of the Advocate." " The Law in Penn- 

 sylvania of Voluntary Assignment in Trust for 

 the Benefit of Creditors " was handled by W. 

 Trickett, " The Law of Partnership," by Clem- 

 ent Bates, and J. C. Fowler published a " Sup- 

 plement to the Revised Statutes of New York." 

 M. H. Throop brought out "The Code of Civil 

 Procedure of New York" and "The New 

 York Justices' Manual," and G. C. Clemens 

 " Powers and Duties of Constables, a Consta- 

 ble's Guide for use in the State of Kansas." 

 " The Fish and Game Laws of the State of 

 New York," also " The Laws for the Preserva- 

 tion of the Forests," were arranged by G. E. 

 Kent, as were " The Excise Laws of New York 

 in Chronological Order," by G. B. Colby. 

 "Commissioners in Chancery in Virginia" 

 was by A. Meade Smith, and "A Chromatic 

 Chart and Manual of Parliamentary Law " 

 was prepared by J. Ross Lee. " General As- 

 signments for Benefit of Creditors " was a 

 " Complete Digest of Decisions, the Rules and 

 Practice and Statutes of New York," from J. 

 S. Derby, and E. S. More collected " The Laws 

 of New York relating to Villages." T. B. 

 Hall wrote " A Treatise on Patent Estate," W. 

 H. Bailey "The Conflict of Judicial Decisions," 

 and I. F. Redfield "The Law of Railways." 

 " Removal of Causes from the State to Federal 

 Courts " was treated by Emory Speer. " A 

 Treatise on the Law of Building and Build- 

 ings," by A. P. Lloyd, supplies a want long 

 felt. "The American and English Encyclo- 

 paedia of Law," by J. H. Merrill, reached its 

 sixth volume, and " Hubbell's Legal Direc- 

 tory " was issued for the year beginning Oct. 

 1, 1887. 



Medicine and Snrgery. While no leading book 

 appeared during the year in either of the de- 

 partments under this head, most of the work 



done was creditable. Eustace Smith wrote on 

 " The Wasting Diseases of Women and Chil- 

 dren " ; A. J. C. Skene on " Diseases of Wom- 

 en " ; J. V. Shoemaker, on the " Diseases of the 

 Skin " ; and H. R. Crocker, " Diseases of the 

 Skin." From Allan McLane Hamilton we have 

 " The Modern Treatment of Headaches " ; from 

 Thomas J. Mayo, "Theine in the Treatment of 

 Neuralgia " ; from J. L. Corning, " A Treatise 

 on Hysteria and Epilepsy " ; and from Mary 

 Putnam Jacobi, "Essays on Hysteria, Brain 

 Tumor, etc." 6. A. Wall published " The Pre- 

 scription Therapeutically, Pharmaceutically, 

 and Grammatically Considered " ; S. Weir- 

 Mitchell, "Doctor and Patient"; and D. W. 

 Buxton, " Ana3sthetics, their Uses and Admin- 

 istration." Vincent D. Harris handled "Dis- 

 eases of the Chest "; Norman Kerr, "Inebrie- 

 ty, its Etiology, Pathology, Treatment, and 

 Jurisprudence " ; and T. C. Van Nuys made 

 "A Chemical Analysis of Healthy and Dis- 

 eased Urine." Vol. V of the " Cyclopaedia 

 of Obstetrics and Gynecology " appeared. A. 

 II. N. Lewers wrote " A Practical Text-Book 

 of the Diseases of Women," and Vol. XI of 

 " A System of Gynecology by American Au- 

 thors," edited by M. D. Mann, was issued. 

 Nathan Allen wrote on "Physical Develop- 

 ment," J. H. Salisbury on "The Relation of 

 Alimentation and Disease," and W. II. Welch 

 on " The General Pathology of Fever." " Pto- 

 maines and Leucomaines, or the Putrefactive 

 and Physiological Alkaloids" was by V. C. 

 Vaughan and F. G. Noyes ; " Clinical Lectures 

 on Albuminuria," by T. G. Stewart; and an 

 "Atlas of Venereal and Skin Diseases" was 

 prepared by Prince A. Morrow. From Austin 

 Flint we have " A Text-Book of Human Physi- 

 ology"; from William Sterling, "Outlines of 

 Practical Physiology"; and from J. F. Payne, 

 "A Manual of General Pathology," designed 

 as an introduction to the practice of medicine. 

 L. A. Stimon published " A Treatise on Dislo- 

 cations," and to surgery belong : " The Rules 

 of Aseptic and Antiseptic Surgery," by A. G. 

 Gerster; "Rectal and Anal Surgery," by Ed- 

 mund and E. W. Andrews ; " Surgery of the 

 Abdomen," by J. E. Mears ; " Abdominal Surg- 

 erv," by H. C. Wyman; and "Ophthalmic 

 Surgery," by R. B. Carter and W. A. Frost. 

 "The Surgical- Diseases of the Genito- Urinary 

 Organs" was a revision by E. L. Keyes of the 

 text-book by Van Buren and Keyes. R. B. 

 Bontecou considered " What Class of Gun-shot 

 Wounds justify Excision or Resection in Mod- 

 ern Warfare,"'and O. K. Newell, "The Best 

 Surgical Dressing; how to prepare it, etc." 

 " An Illustrated Encyclopasdic Medical Dic- 

 tionary," by Frank P. Foster ; F. R. Campbell's 

 " Language of Medicine " ; and A. L. Ranney's 

 " Applied Anatomy," wei-e useful contributions, 

 as were also "An Annual of the Universal 

 Medical Science," edited by Charles E. Sajons, 

 and a " Physician's Interpreter in Four Lan- 

 guages," the work of F. A. Davis. George A. 

 Evans issued a " Hand-book of Historical and 



