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medical subjects may be mentioned the trans- 

 lation by J. O. Green of Hermann Schwarze's 

 treatise on the pathological anatomy of the ear 

 (Houghton, Osgood & Co.) ; F. Mortimer Gran- 

 ville's " Common Mind-Troubles " and " The 

 Secret of a .Clear Head " (Salem, S. E. Cassi- 

 no) ; a translation of Hoffmann and Ultzmann's 

 treatise on urine examination (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) ; Galabin's text-book of female dis- 

 eases (Lindsay & Blakiston) ; and J. Gam- 

 gee's treatise on yellow fever (D. Appleton 

 & Co.), which he thinks originates on ships. 



A few books have been published during 

 the year upon subjects connected with the 

 Law, which, from their character or the form 

 in which they are presented, are of interest to 

 the lay public. A contribution to the question 

 of international copyright, treating of the the- 

 ories of ownership in literary property which 

 guide legislation and judicial decisions in both 

 Great Britain and America, and arguing in 

 favor of an international guarantee of authors' 

 rights, is Eaton S. Drone's " Treatise on the 

 Law of Property in Intellectual Productions " 

 (Boston, Little, Brown & Co). G. H. Putnam 

 and Appleton Morgan have published opinions 

 on the same subject, the former in one of G. 

 P. Putnam's Sons "Economic Monographs," 

 and the latter in an open letter to Secretary 

 Evarts, published by Aug. Brentano, Jr., of 

 New York. E. M. Gallaudet's "Manual of 

 International Law " (New York, A. S. Barnes 

 and Co.) is based on Calvo's French treatise. 

 A revised and final edition of Professor Wool- 

 Bey's standard work on this subject has been 

 issued. A popular treatise on a legal subject 

 of much interest to the investing community 

 is "A Treatise on the Law of Railroad and 

 other Corporate Securities," by Leonard A. 

 Jones (Houghton, Osgood & Co.). " The Law 

 of the Road," by R. Vashon Rogers, Jr. (San 

 Francisco, Sumner, "Whitney & Co.), aims to 

 instruct the general public in legal principles ; 

 and to render the study attractive, the book is 

 interspersed and enlivened with wit and anec- 

 dote. It is one of a series of such books, 

 another of which, by the same author, is 

 " The Law of Hotel Life." A manual of the 

 laws relating to shipping and admiralty accord- 

 ing to British and American decisions has been 

 compiled by Robert Desty (Sumner, Whitney 

 & Co.); and the same subject is treated in 

 Theodore M. Etting's essay on "Admiralty 

 Jurisdiction in America " (Philadelphia, Rees, 

 Welsh & Co.). In the series of "Economic 

 Monographs," published by G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons of New York, is an interesting tract by 

 E. R. Squibb on the subject of the adultera- 

 tion of food and its legislative prevention. 

 The law of extradition is set forth in a special 

 treatise by S. T. Spear (Albany, Weed & Par- 

 sons). Other new works are G. W. Brandt's 

 treatise on " The Law of Suretyship and Guar- 

 anty," and M. T. Cooley's "Treatise upon 

 Wrongs and their Remedies " (Chicago, Calla- 

 han & Co.); a " Treatise upon the Law of 



Principal and Agent," by W. Evans (Chicago 

 Legal News Co.) ; a compilation of the insol- 

 vent statutes actually in force in the different 

 States and Canada, by Raphael J. Moses, Jr. 

 (New York, Baker, Voorhis & Co.) ; " Com- 

 mentaries on Lunacy Laws," by James Or- 

 dronaux (Albany, J. D. Parsons, Jr.) ; a treat- 

 ise on the " Law of Eminent Domain," by H. 

 E. Mills, and one of Seymour D. Thompson on 

 the "Liability of Stockholders" (St. Louis, F. 

 H. Thomas & Co.). 



In Philology America produces her share of 

 books. The completest dictionary of the Eng- 

 lish tongue is the product of American schol- 

 arship ; and the enterprise of its publishers 

 and the learning and industry of American 

 scholars are sufficient to prevent this great 

 work from becoming antiquated. The new 

 edition of Webster's " Unabridged Dictionary," 

 edited by Chauncey A. Goodrich and Professor 

 Noah Porter (Springfield, G. & C. Merriam), 

 contains an appended biographical pronouncing 

 dictionary, and a vocabulary of five thousand 

 new words which have gained currency since 

 the last edition was issued. Andrews's edition 

 of Freund's Latin lexicon had been for a gen- 

 eration the instrument with which American 

 students have obtained their knowledge of 

 Roman literature. In Harper's "Latin Dic- 

 tionary" the old work has been thoroughly 

 worked over and considerably augmented by 

 Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short. Pro- 

 fessor W. Dwight Whitney has published an 

 improved grammar of classical Sanskrit and 

 the older dialects (New York, B. Westermann 

 & Co.). " The English Language : its Gram- 

 matical and Logical Principles," by Harris R. 

 Greene (Houghton, Osgood & Co.), is an ele- 

 mentary theoretical treatise on English gram- 

 mar. R. Morris's " Elementary Lessons in 

 Historical Grammar" deals with accidence and 

 word-formation (D. Appleton & Co.). Brother 

 Azarias's " Development of English Litera- 

 ture " is an excellent text-book (D. Appleton 

 & Co.), as also J. H. Gilmore's " The English 

 Language and its Early Literature." Rasmus 

 B. Anderson has published an English transla- 

 tion of the " Younger Edda " (Chicago, S. C. 

 Griggs & Co.). 



An improvement can be remarked year by 

 year in the methods and quality of the instruc- 

 tion in American schools, and a system of ped- 

 agogics adapted to the national needs is slowly 

 and quietly developing. Among the works 

 treating of the methods of Education may be 

 mentioned the study of James H. Hoose " On 

 the Promise of Methods of Teaching," the tract 

 of Fitch on the art of questioning, and that of 

 Bennett on national education in different 

 countries (Syracuse, Davis, Baldwin & Co.) ; 

 also the essays of Hamerton, McCosh, and 

 others on the higher education (New York, 

 A. S. Barnes & Co.). A hand-book of the re- 

 quirements for admission into the different 

 colleges, by A. F. Nightingale, is published by 

 D. Appleton & Co. The lectures delivered at 



