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tional Law ; " Judge Parsons's " Law of Con- 

 tract-;,'' tiftli edition; Mr. J. B. Ecclesine's 

 npeudium of Laws and Decisions relating 

 to Mobs, Riots, Invasions, &c., as affecting Fire 

 Insurance Companies in the United States ; " 

 Judge Stanley Matthews " Summary of the 

 Law of Partnership for Business Men ; " " Com- 

 mentaries on the law of Marriage and Divorce,' 

 by J. P. Bishop, fourth edition ; Bernard Roel- 

 ker's " Manual for the use of Notaries Public 

 and Bankers; " Mr. George W. Raff, " On the 

 LAW relating to Roads and Highways in the 

 State of Ohio ; " Mr. Henry Sumner Maine's 

 " Treatise on Ancient Law : its Connection 

 with the Early History of Society, and its rela- 

 tion to Modern Ideas," with an Introduction 

 by Professor Dwight. To this class also be- 

 long the numerous volumes on the Pleading 

 and Practice of different States and of different 

 courts in the same State, and the treatises on 

 the law relating to the powers and duties of 

 Justices of the Peace and Constables in Indi- 

 ana and Kentucky, as well as " The Forms of 

 Practice and Pleadings in Actions," by Messrs. 

 Abbott Brothers; "The Tax-payer's Guide" 

 of Mr. Thompson Westcott ; Messrs. Tiffany & 

 Smith's " New York Practice," and " The New 

 York Code of Procedure amended to 1804," by 

 John To \vnsend. Among the laws and pro- 

 posed laws published during the year we find, 

 " The United States Statutes at large for the 

 first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress," 

 edited, as usual, by Mr. George P. Sanger ; 

 " The United States Digest," vol. 15, edited by 

 H. Farnam Smith ; " The Tax and the Tariff 

 Laws," each alphabetically arranged; "The 

 Act authorizing the Formation of Corpora- 

 tions for Manufacturing, Mining, Mechanical, 

 and Chemical Purposes," with all the subse- 

 quent amendments thereto ; and the " Draft 

 of a Penal Code for the State of New York," 

 prepared by the Commissioners of the Code, 

 and submitted to the Judges for examination 

 before final revision. 



We have also two legal documents apper- 

 taining rather to the antiquarian than the 

 jurist. These are : A Calendar of New York 

 Colonial Manuscripts, endorsed " Land Papers," 

 in the office of the Secretary of State ; and a 

 reprint (on large paper) of the proceedings of a 

 court-martial held at New Brunswick in 17"-\ 

 for the trial of General Charles Lee. 



In Educational Literature but little has 

 been done, except in the way of Text-books 

 for colleges, academies, seminaries, and public 

 schools. Rev. Asa D. Smith, D. D., has pub- 

 lished his inaugural on assuming the Presidency 

 of Dartmouth CoUege, and Governor J. A. An- 

 drew his address to the graduating class of the 

 Medical College of Harvard University, and 

 both are replete with sound and useful sugges- 

 tions on the subject of education. Mr. J. P. 

 "Wickersham, Principal of one of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Normal Schools, has prepared a volume 

 of great value entitled " School Economy : a 

 treatise on the Preparation, Organization. Em- 



ployment, Government, and Authorities of 

 Schools ; " Mr. James E. Murdoch, the actor, 

 who has given his whole time and talents to 

 the cause of his country during the war, has 

 collected some of the poems, &c., he has been 

 in the habit of reading at his public readings 

 and recitations, in behalf of the soldiers, under 

 the title of " Patriotism in Poetry and Prose." 

 Among the Text-books, the most noteworthy 

 are : Prof. J. E. Boise's " First Three Books 

 of Xenophon's Anabasis," with notes, vocabu- 

 lary, and Kiepert's excellent map ; Prof. Al- 

 bert Harkness' " Latin Grammar for Schools 

 and Colleges ; " Prof. Francis Bowen's " Trea- 

 tise on Logic ; " Prof. Hiram Corson's " Elocu- 

 tionary Manual ; " Prof. R. R. Raymond's 

 " Patriotic Speaker ; " Prof. J. W. S. Hows' 

 " Ladies' Book of Readings and Recitations ; " 

 Prof. N. C. Brooks' " Vita Virorum Illustrium 

 America? ; " Prof. W. B. Silber's " Progressive 

 Lessons in Greek ; " Rev. J. W. French's 

 '' Grammar," part of a course on language pre- 

 pared for the Cadets at West Point ; Messrs. 

 Benjamin F. Shaw and Fordyce A. Allen's 

 " Comprehensive Geography, combining Math- 

 ematical, Physical, and Political Geography, 

 &c. ; " Prof. A. E. Church's " Elements of De- 

 scriptive Geometry, with its application to 

 Spherical Projections ; " Prof. J. Madison Wat- 

 son's " Manual of Calisthenics ; " Prof. E. C. 

 J. Krauss's " German Manual, or First Instruc- 

 tion in the German Language ; " and several 

 readers and other elementary text-books in 

 French and German. Mr. G. P. Quackenbos, 

 well known as an author of successful school 

 books, has prepared a " First Book in English 

 Grammar," as a part of his course on Gram- 

 mar, and a " Primary and Elementary Arith- 

 metic," based on the works of G. R. Perkins, 

 LL. D. Mr. Nelson M. Holbrook has con- 

 tinued the series of Towne and Holbrook's 

 Progressive Readers by the publication of a 

 "Fourth Reader;" and Messrs. Ivison, Phiii- 

 ney, Blakeman & Co. have done good service 

 to the higher schools by the publication of 

 "Arithmetical Examples; or, Test Exercises 

 for the use of Advanced Classes." 



The publication of Barnard's "American 

 Journal of Education " (quarterly), and of the 

 ' American Educational Monthly," has been 

 continued during the year, and both journals, 

 as well as the numerous local ones of which 

 there are one or more in almost every Northern 

 State, have contributed powerfully to promote 

 the cause of education, in its relations to teach- 

 er, scholar, and parent. Notwithstanding the 

 lai-ire number of teachers who have joined the 

 army, impelled often by the most patriotic mo- 

 tives, there has been no retrogression in educa- 

 tional effort in the Northern States; the schools 

 have generally been better sustained and taught 

 than before, and though in some of the colleges 

 there has been a little falling off in numbers, yet 

 it has been made up in others. 



In Geography and Travel, the event of tu 

 year was the publication of Capt. Charles Fran- 



