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Abstracts of Title to Real Property, illustrated 

 by References to the Statutes of Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and 

 Kansas ;" and Judge Matthews, of the Superior 

 Court of Cincinnati, prepared a Summary of 

 the Law of Partnership, for the use of business 

 men. Other manuals or books of instruction and 

 explanation on existing laws, were "A Treatise 

 on the Organization, Jurisdiction, and Practice 

 of the Courts of the United States, with an Ap- 

 pendix of Principal Forms," by Alfred Conk- 

 ling, etc., fourth revised and enlarged edition ; 

 " The Law and Practice in Civil Actions, and 

 Proceedings in Justices' Courts and on Appeals 

 to the County Courts in the State of New 

 York," etc., by William "Wait, counsellor at 

 law, two volumes. The Amendments to the 

 .New York Code of Procedure were published 

 during the year. Having thus disposed of 

 the great bulk of the legal publications of 

 the year, there still remain a few commen- 

 taries or treatises on great legal principles 

 and measures. The Hon. Isaac F. Redfleld, 

 late Chief Justice of Vermont, has carefully 

 revised, and considerably enlarged, the mas- 

 terly Commentaries of the late Justice Story 

 on the " Conflict of Laws, Foreign and 

 Domestic," and those on "Equity Pleadings 

 and the Incidents thereof," and has thus ren- 

 dered a great service to the legal profession. 

 Judge Bishop (Joel Prentiss Bishop) has pub- 

 lished a third and revised edition of his " Com- 

 mentaries on the Criminal Law." Judge 

 Francis Ililliard, author of " The Law of Tests," 

 ^published " The Law of Injunction." Mr. 

 Horace Binney, an eminent lawyer of Phila- 

 delphia, issued during the year the third part 

 of his Essay on the Privilege of the Writ of 

 Habeas Corpus under the Constitution. Mr. B. 

 F. Clark, of North Chelrnsford, Mass., pub- 

 lished an Essay on the Prohibitory Liquor Law 

 of Massachusetts, in which he undertakes to 

 demonstrate that "prohibition of the sale of 

 intoxicating liquors is impracticable ; that the 

 Maine Law is a failure, and a stringent license 

 law the true policy." The legal periodicals 

 are numerous, and many of them conducted 

 with great ability. 



The number of works appertaining to Educa- 

 tion and Educational Science was very consid- 

 erable, but, with three exceptions, they were 

 all text-books, though many of. them in the 

 higher departments of science. These three 

 were " Methods of Instruction ; that part of 

 the Philosophy of Education which treats of 

 the Nature of the several Branches of Knowl- 

 edge, and the Methods of Teaching them ac- 

 cording to that Nature," by James Pyle Wick- 

 ersham, A. M. ; " The Culture of the Observing 

 Faculties in the family and School: or Things 

 about Home and how to make them Instructive 

 to the Young," by Warren Burton, author of 

 The District School as it Was;" "Classical 

 and Scientific Studies and the Great Schools of 

 England: a Lecture read before the Society 

 of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of 



Technology, April 6, 1865," by W. P. Atkin- 

 son, with additions and an appendix. Of 

 the text-books, six were mathematical, de- 

 voted to Algebra, Astronomy, Mental and An- 

 alytical Geometry, Differential Calculus, and 

 Drawing, and were prepared by Professors 

 Loomis, Docharty, Holloway, Emerson, Spare, 

 and Warren. Eight were text-books in an- 

 cient and modern languages, whereof live were 

 French and German and three Latin or Greek, 

 the latter by Professors Brooks, Frieze, and 

 Goodwin. Three were treatises on Geography, 

 all of high character, those of Messrs. Shaw and 

 Allen and Mr. Colton being occupied with 

 Mathematical, Physical, and Political Geogra- 

 phy, and Mi-. W. L. Gage's translation of Carl 

 Ritter's work pertaining to Comparative Ge- 

 ography only. Of Readers and Speakers there 

 were half a dozen, each distinguished by some 

 peculiarity. The " Shakspeare, adapted for 

 Reading Classes and the Family Circle," by the 

 Messrs. Bulfinch, the "Lessons for Schools, 

 taken from the Holy Scriptures, in the Words 

 of the Text," and Mr. Bremen's translation of 

 Willson's Readers into German, are the most 

 remarkable of the former, and Mr. Philbrick's 

 and Prof. Culver's Speakers are the most note- 

 worthy of the latter. Of Spellers there were 

 two, both containing dictation exercises Mr. 

 G. W. Fetter's and Mr. Edward Mulvaney's, 

 and with these should be ranked Miss Sewell's 

 Dictation Exercises. Of more miscellane'ous 

 text-books there were a Spanish version of 

 Mrs. Willard's History, an " Infant-class Man- 

 ual," by Miss Pamelia Belding ; u A Manual of 

 Light Gymnastics," by W. L. Ruthe ; " A Man- 

 ual of Zoology for Schools," by Sanborn Ten- 

 ney; "The Elements of Political Economy," 

 by Prof. A. L. Perry, and a " Compendium of 

 Tachygraphy, or Lindsley's Phonetic Short- 

 hand," by D. P. Lindsley. The proceedings at 

 the inauguration of Frederick A. P. Barnard, 

 S. T. D., LL. D., as President of Columbia Col- 

 lege, October 3, 1864, also belong to this de- 

 partment. 



In the department of GEOGRAPHY and TRAV- 

 ELS, several important original works were pub- 

 lished during the year. Prominent among these 

 was Dr. II. Willis Baxley'a " What I saw on 

 the West Coast of South and North America, 

 and at the Hawaiian Islands ; " Miss Mary A. 

 Anderson, a daughter of the venerable Secre- 

 tary of the American Board of Commissioners 

 of Foreign Missions, also gave her impressions 

 of a part of the same Territory in " Scenes in 

 the Hawaiian Islands and California." The late 

 Edward Robinson, D. D., LL. D., one of the 

 ablest Oriental scholars and explorers of the 

 century, left a supplementary volume to his 

 "Biblical Researches," which was published 

 last year underthe title of " Physical Geograpl: y 

 of the Holy Land," a work of value; and as 

 illustrating another phase of this subject of 

 Oriental study, Mrs. M. E. Rogers published 

 " Domestic Life in Palestine." An American 

 missionary in South Africa, Rev. Lewis Grout, 



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