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Urns in the " Johns Hopkins Unm r-it y St i. 

 another volume of which was a " History of Li- 

 by.l. H.T. Mcl'herson, and 11. II.' North- 

 The History of the French Kcvolu- 

 t:.>n, : or a Country without u <i>d." 



The I'ainell Movement," by T. P. O'Connor, 

 had n sketch of the author by Thomas Nelson 

 S. M. Burnham described "St rubles of 

 ,! i< nis" or t he principal wars, battles, sieges, 

 ami treat its ( ,f the world. "The History of 

 Historical Writing in America" was given by J. 

 Franklin Jameson (originally in four lertmvs 

 delivered at John* Hopkins University in 1887); 

 and to i he press of the same institution wo arc 

 indebted for " Seminary Notes on Recent Hi-- 

 il Literature," by II. B. Adams, J. M. Vin- 

 e-nit, and other authorities. 



Housekeeping. "House and Hearth," by 

 Harriet 1'rescott Spofford, gives 23 chapters of 

 thoughts on the making and keeping of homes. 

 -The Washington Cook-book: Statesmen's 

 Pishes" consists of autographic receipts by 

 Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. William Wmdom, 

 and others, followed bv " The Chafing-dish and 

 the l.la/.er." by Mrs. "H. P. Bailey. "Cookery 

 with a Chafing-dish" was bandied by Thomas 

 J. Murray, and Mrs. H. Llewellyn Williams pre- 

 pared " The Book of Ices." No. 1 of " The Infor- 

 mal ion Headers," by E. A. Beal, M. D., covered 

 "Foods and Beverages," and Mrs. T. J. Kirk- 

 patrick supplied "The Modern Cook-book." 

 "Good Housekeeping," anonymous, contained 

 information relating to the management of the 

 household and servants, costs, and quantities, 

 etc., and more than 2,000 practical recipes are 

 to be found in " The Every-day Cook and Re- 

 cipe Book," by Miss E. Neil. 



Jurisprudence; " Constitutional Legisla- 

 tion in tne United States," by John Ordronaux, 

 " Statutes and Statutory Construction," by J. G. 

 Sutherland, and a second edition of "The Gen- 

 eral Principles of Constitutional Law in the 

 United States of America," by Hon. Thomas M. 

 Cooley, belong to the higher departments of 

 jurisprudence, while works of the year having a 

 more or less national bearing are : " A Treatise on 

 the Law of Citizenship in the United States, 

 treated historically," by Prentiss Webster; "A 

 Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Ren- 

 dition,'" in two volumes, by John Bassett Moore ; 

 "The Interstate Commerce Law," by John T. 

 Wentworth; "Laws of the United States relat- 

 ing to Currency, Finance, and Banking from 

 1789 to 1891," compiled by Charles P. Dunbar; 

 " The Question of Copyright," a summary of the 

 copyright laws at present in force in the chief 

 countries of the world, by George Haven Put- 

 nam ; "The Pension Lawyer's Digest "; "Inter- 

 ference Proceedings in the United States Patent 

 Office," edited by Woodbury Lowery ; Vol. II of 

 a " Digest of the Decisions ofthe Supreme Court 

 of the United States," by Henry C. Danforth, 

 bringing the same down to October, 1891 ; Vols. 

 IV and V of the "American Digest " (Annuals 

 1890 and 1891) and " The Statutes at Large from 

 December, 1889, to March, 1891," sent out bv the 

 Government Printing Office, making Vol. XXVI. 

 11 H. Curtis edited "Important Federal 

 Statutes annotated." 



In general law we have " Commentaries on 

 the Jurisdiction of Courts," by Timothy Brown, 

 VOL. xxxi. 27 A 



an " Index - Digest of Right*, Remedies, and 

 Practice at Law under the Codes and in Kquity," 

 by John I). Lawson ; "A Trent i.-e on Suits'in 

 Chancery," by Henry R. Gibson ; " A Treatise on 

 the Law' of Judgment*, including the Doctrine 

 of Res Judieiitii," in two volumes, by Henry 

 Campbell Hlack ; and a "Brief for the Argument 

 of (Questions arising u|xm the Pleadings on the 

 Trial of Issues of Law, or Fact in Civil Actions 

 at Law, in Equity and under the New l'n;d- 

 ure," by Austin Abbott, who published also 

 "New Cases selected chiefly from Peei-ions of 

 the Courts, with Notes," " A Digest of New York 

 Statutes and Reports, from July, 1882, to Jan. 

 1, 1890," and "New Cases selected chiefly from 

 Decisions of the Courts of the State o'f New 

 York, with Notes " (Vol. XXVI). A second edi- 

 tion was made of " The Practice in the Court* 

 of Law in Civil Cases," by R. T. Barton, and of 

 "The Law of Liens," by Leonard A. Jones ; and 

 William A. Keener arranged " Selections from 

 Leake's Elements of the Law of Contracts and 

 Finch's Cases on Contracts," in two volumes, as 

 a text-book for law students. John A. Finch 



freparcd a " Digest of Insurance Cases," Frederick 

 I. Cooke wrote on " The Law of Life Insurance," 

 and James H. Gilmore " Notes of a Course of 

 Lectures on Smith's Mercantile Law." From 

 William G. Myer came " Vested Rights : Se- 

 lected Cases and Notes on Retrospective and 

 Arbitrary Legislation affecting Vested Rights "in 

 Property " ; from Emlin McClain, a " Synopsis of 

 Elementary Law (Substantive and Remedial) and 

 the Law of Personal Property"; from John 

 Chipman Gray, " Select Cases and other Authori- 

 ties on the Law of Property " ; from William T. 

 Brantly, " Principles of the Law of Personal 

 Property " ; from Christopher G. Tiedeman, " A 

 Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Prop- 

 erty " ; from Joseph J. Darlington, " A Treatise on 

 the Law of Personal Property, founded on Will- 

 iams " ; and from Alfred S. Bolles, " The Law of 

 the Suspension of the Power of Alienation in 

 the State of New York." " Suspension of the 

 Power of Alienation and Postponement of vest- 

 ing under the Laws of New York, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, and Wisconsin," was treated by 

 Stewart Chaplin ; and concerning corporations 

 we have two volumes by Walter Murphy on 

 " Corporations in Pennsylvania " ; " Company 

 Law," by Charles Fisk Beach, Jr., in two volumes 

 also; Vol. VI of "American Railroad and Cor- 

 poration Reports," edited and annotated by John 

 Lewis : " The Law of Receivers of Corporations 

 including National Banks," by James Fraser 

 Gluck and August Becker ; " Municipal Bonds," 

 by Eben H. Gay ; " Nebraska Railroad Law," 

 by Leavitt Buriiham ; "The Law of Railway 

 Lines," by William C. Anderson ; Vols. XXXI, 

 XXXII, and XXXIII of " American and English 

 Corporation Cases"; and Vols. XLIV,XLV,and 

 XL VI of "American and English Railroad 

 Cases." Vol. Ill of " The Law of Liens in Penn- 

 sylvania," by W. Trickett, was issued, also "A 

 Treatise on 'the Law of Bills of Lading," by 

 William W. Porter, and "A Treatise on the Law 

 of Chattel Mortgages," by Darius II. Pingrey. 

 A second edition, rewritten and enlarged, ap- 

 peared of " The Law of Expert Testimony," by 

 Henry Wade Rogers, and S. D. Thompson laid 

 down the " Law of Electricity." 



