LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1887. 



429 



the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Phila- 

 delphia from the Year 1701 to the 21st June, 

 1887." R. Bach McMaster published an act of 

 the Legislature of New York " To provide for 

 the Organization and Regulation of Certain 

 Business Corporations, with Amendments and 

 Notes. 1 ' An important work was that issued 

 by Clarence F. Birdseye, "A Table chrono- 

 logically arranged of the Statutes of the State 

 of New York, Amended, Repealed, Continued, 

 or otherwise Modified or Affected; 1777 to 

 1886." John D. Works and J. Foster Dillon 

 wrote on " Removal of Causes from State to 

 Federal Courts"; Gustavus Remak, Jr., pub- 

 lished "Negotiable Instruments in Pennsyl- 

 vania"; John A. Hutchison published "Land 

 Titles in Virginia and West Virginia " ; Clark 

 D. Knapp wrote "A Treatise on the Laws 

 of the State of New York relating to the 

 Poor, Insane, Idiots, and Habitual Drunkards, 

 with Forms and Digests." Among the more 

 technical works are the following: G. W. 

 Field's "Lawyers' Briefs"; Richard Harris's 

 "Before Trial; What should be done by 

 Client, Solicitor, and Counsel " ; C. C. Hine 

 and Walter S. Nichols's " Agent's Hand-Book 

 of Insurance Law " ; Alexander M. Burrill 

 writes "A Treatise on the Law and Prac- 

 tice of Voluntary Assignments for the Benefit 

 of Creditors " ; E. S. Roe published " Crimi- 

 nal Procedure of the United States Courts " ; 

 G. M. Barber furnishes " Guide for Notaries 

 Public and Commissioners" ; Charles F. Beach, 

 Jr., wrote " On Receivers." Payne's " Rules 

 of Order and Guide to Parliamentary Law," 

 and " The People's Lawyer and Conveyancer, 

 with Forms," exhibit their purpose in their 

 titles. J. M. Pile wrote " Outline of Com- 

 mercial Law "; Frederick Pollock, "The Law 

 of Torts"; IL W. May, "Fraudulent Convey- 

 ancing " ; John B. McPherson, " Competency 

 of Witnesses " ; " Legal Hints for Travelers " is 

 by Myron S. Bly, and sets forth the rights of 

 the general public on passenger transportation 

 lines. Lieut. -Col. W. Winthrop published a 

 work on " Military Law," and an abridgment 

 of the same; "The Law of Real Property" 

 was treated by Henry W. Challis, and " The 

 Law of Evidence" by Judge P. Taylor. 

 Emory Washburn published a "Treatise on 

 the American Law of Real Property " (5th 

 edition); Joel Prentiss Bishop wrote "Com- 

 mentaries on the Law of Contracts, upon a 

 New and Condensed Method." Walter S. 

 Poor published " On Corporations," while 

 " The American Law of Landlord and Ten- 

 ant " was treated by J. Neilson Taylor. " The 

 Law and Practice as to the Paving of Private 

 Streets" was considered in a small volume 

 by William Spinks ; Horace Smith wrote a 

 " Treatise on the Law of Negligence " ; R. S. 

 Wright on the " Law of Criminal Conspiracies 

 and Agreements"; and G. Washington Field 

 published " Medico-Legal Guide for Doctors 

 and Lawyers." The subject of marriages and di- 

 vorces was treated by C. Stewart Welles under 



the title of " The New Marriage and other 

 Uniform Laws"; by M. S. Robinson in " Mar- 

 riage and Divorce; giving the Laws of the 

 Various States of the United States, England, 

 and the Continent"; Lloyd A. Parlitt pub- 

 lished "A Treatise on the Law of Divorce " ; 

 and "A Treatise on Marriage, Divorce, and 

 Legal Rights of Married Women ; a Complete 

 Digest of the Statutory Laws of the States and 

 Territories," was published anonymously (In- 

 dianapolis, Indiana). 



Medicine and Surgery. This department in- 

 cludes but few important works by experts 

 among the large number of books published 

 on the general topics connected with medical 

 practice during the year. In anatomy, physi- 

 ology, and hygiene, there were published works 

 by John C. Cutter and Henry G. Chapman, 

 lii the treatment of women and children we 

 have: By John M.Keating, M. D., "Maternity, 

 Infancy, Childhood, the Hygiene of Preg- 

 nancy " ; J. H. Dye " On Painless Childbirth ; 

 or Healthy Mothers and Healthy Children"; 

 W. H. By ford on "Diseases of Women"; 

 Rodney Glisan, an authority, " Modern Mid- 

 wifery "; Dr. J. M. Carnochan on " Operative 

 Surgery and Surgical Pathology " (Parts X, 

 XI) ; Stephen Smith, M. D., " The Principle 

 and Practice of Operative Surgery " ; and A. 

 Hewson, M. D., "Earth as a Topical Applica- 

 tion in Surgery." In dentistry there were 

 published works by Eugene S. Talbot, "Ir- 

 regularities of the Teeth and their Treat- 

 ment " ; J. Taft's " Index of Dental Periodical 

 Literature for 1886"; Wilbur F. Litch, "The 

 American System of Dentistry." Alonzo 

 Clark wrote on "Diseases of the Heart"; Dr. 

 John S. Butler on "The Curability of Insan- 

 ity"; L. H. Washington on "Headaches"; 

 James Alexander Lindsay on " The Climatic 

 Treatment of Consumption " ; E. C. Spitzka 

 " On Insanity." " Massage as a Mode of 

 Treatment " was written by W. Murrell, M. D. ; 

 Dr. H. C. Wood wrote on " Nervous Diseases 

 and their Diagnosis " ; F. P. Henry, M. D., pub- 

 lished a practical treatise on " Anaemia " ; 

 Alexander Collie, M. D., issued a work " On 

 Fevers; their History, Diagnosis, etc."; and 

 C. W. Cutler, M. D., " Differential Diagnosis 

 of Diseases of the Skin." Jerome Walker 

 wrote "Health Lessons," a primary book; 

 Albert F. Blaisdell, M. D., issued a work under 

 the title of " How to Keep Well ; a Text-Book 

 of Health for Use in the Common Schools " ; 

 " A Primer of Physical Training " is by Wil- 

 liam G. Anderson, M. D., and is one of the 

 Chautauqua text-books ; and D. B. St. John 

 Roosa, M. D., an eminent oculist, published an 

 important work entitled " On the Determina- 

 tion of the Necessity for Wearing Glasses." 

 The fourth edition of " The National Dispen- 

 satory " was published in Philadelphia; Allen 

 McLane Hamilton published a work on "Medi- 

 cal Jurisprudence"; Henry Thompson, Sr., 

 wrote on " Diet in Relation to Age and Ac- 

 tivity " ; William Paul Gerhard issued a work 



