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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1891. 



"New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, 

 and Separation," by Joel Prentiss Bishop, filled 

 two volumes. James M. Kerr was the author of 

 " A Treatise on the Law of Homicide " ; H. W. 

 Chaplain, of " Cases on Criminal Law " (for use 

 in the law school of Harvard University) ; and 

 Charles A. Ray, of "Negligence of Imposed 

 Duties, Personal." Russell Duane selected " The 

 Case of the Sayward " for the law oration deliv- 

 ered at the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, June 11, 1891 ; " Cases 

 on Torts " were selected and arranged for the 

 use of law students in connection with " Pollock 

 on Torts," by Francis M. Burdick, and " Inter- 

 rogatory Law" comprised 1,230 questions sub- 

 mitted to the graduating classes of the law 

 school of Cincinnati College for the years 1879- 

 '91. Vols. XVI to XXI, inclusive, of " Ameri- 

 can State Reports," by A. C. Freeman, were 

 issued, also Books 9 and 12 of " Lawyers' Reports 

 annotated," edited by Robert Desty. Of local 

 importance are " The Statutes of Oklahoma, 

 1890," compiled under the supervision and di- 

 rection of Robert Martin, Secretary of the Ter- 

 ritory ; " Real-estate Statutes of Indiana," by 

 T. E. Ballard and E. Emerson ; an " Analytical 

 Index and Digest of the Supreme Court Reports 

 of Georgia," by Howard Van Epps ; a " Digest of 

 Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of 

 Massachusetts," edited by Henry E. Randall and 

 A. E. Wislizenus ; and " A Treatise on Practice 

 in the Courts of Pennsylvania," by F. Carroll 

 Brewster, in two volumes. Everett W. Pattison 

 prepared " Forms for Missouri Pleading," and 

 Gorham D. Williams " The Massachusetts Peace 

 Officer." The average number of reports were 

 also reached from the several States. Vols. XIV, 

 XV, and XVI of the " American and English 

 Encyclopedia of Law," compiled under the edi- 

 torial supervision of John Houston Merrill, ap- 

 peared ; also a " Dictionary of Law," by Henry 

 Campbell Black, and " Martindale's American 

 Law Directory for 1890-91." 



To the literature of law belong " The History 

 of the Supreme Court of the United States," by 

 Hampton L. Carson, in two superb volumes, and 

 " The Criminal Jurisprudence of the Ancient 

 Hebrews," by Rabbi S. Mendelsohn, LL. D. 



Medicine and Surgery. In medicine we 

 have " Fever : its Pathology and Treatment by 

 Antipyretics," by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., 

 an essay to which was awarded the Boylston 

 prize of Harvard University July, 1890 ; " The 

 Modern Antipyretics," by John Ott, M. D. ; 

 " The Physical Diagnosis of the Diseases of the 

 Heart and Lungs and Thoracic Aneurism," by 

 D. M. Cammann, M. D. ; a " Practical Treatise 

 on Diseases of the Skin," by Henry G. Piffard, 

 M. D., and Robert M. Fuller, M. D. ; " Familiar 

 Forms of Nervous Disease," by M. Allen Starr, 

 M. D. ; and a ninth edition, corrected and en- 

 larged, of "A Treatise on the Diseases of the 

 Nervous System," by William A. Hammond, 

 M. D., and M. Graeme, M. D. Part II of " A 

 Text-book of Ophthalmoscopy," by Edward G. 

 Loring, M. D., was edited and revised by F. B. 

 Loring, and D. N. Skinner, M. D., wrote on " The 

 Care of the Eyes in Health and Disease." " Prof. 

 Koch's Cure for Consumption (Tuberculosis) "" 

 was popularly explained by H. Feller, M. D. 

 Samuel C. Bussey, M. D., treated " Congenital 



Occlusion and Dilatation of Lymph Channels," 

 and J. Compton Burnett, M. D., "The Greater 

 Diseases of the Liver." " Insomnia and its 

 Therapeutics " was by A. W. Macfarlane, M. I). ; 

 " Sprains : their Consequences and Treatment," 

 by C. W. Mansell Moullin, M. D. ; " Dyspepsia " 

 (in the " Red Cross Series "), by John Dewar ; 

 "Lectures on Tumors from a Clinical Stand- 

 point," by John B. Hamilton, M. D. ; and " La 

 Grippe and its Treatment, for General Readers," 

 by Cyrus Edson, M. D., Chief of the Health De- 

 partment of New York " Abnormal Intra-tho- 

 racic Air Pressures and their Treatment " was 

 the title of an address by Charles Denison, M. D., 

 before the American Climatological Association, 

 Sept. 2, 1890. "Studies in Pathological An- 

 atomy," by Francis Delafield, M D., filled two 

 volumes ; and Frederick B. Robinson published 

 Vol. I of " Practical Intestinal Surgery." E. 

 Martin, M. D., and Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., 

 were joint authors of " The Surgical Treatment 

 of Wounds and Obstruction of the Intestines," 

 and Egbert H. Grandin, M. D., and Josephus H. 

 Gunning, M. D., of a " Practical Treatise on 

 Electricity and Gynaecology." Vol. II of " Ma- 

 teria Medica and Therapeutics," by John V. 

 Shoemaker, M. D., had especial reference to the 

 clinical application of drugs. . From C. H. Leon- 

 ard, M. D., came " The Pocket Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics," and from William D. Gentry, 

 M. D., " The Rubrical and Regional Text-book 

 of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica : Selection 

 on the Urine and Urinary Organs." " A Treat- 

 ise on Practical Anatomy for Students of Anat- 

 omy and Surgery " was prepared by Henry C. 

 Boenning, M. D., and " The Student's Atlas of 

 Artistic Anatomy," by C. Roth, was edited, with 

 an introduction, by C. E. Fitzgerald, M. D. John 

 Hund, M. D., wrote "A Sketch of Surgical His- 

 tory (after Hecker)," and P. C. Remondino, M. D., 

 a " History of Circumcision from the Earliest 

 Times to the Present," with moral and physical 

 reasons for its performance. A second edition 

 was made of " Diseases of the Digestive Organs 

 in Infancy and Childhood," by Lewis Sparr, 

 M. D. " Health without Medicine," by Theodore 

 H. Mead; "Power through Repose," by Anna 

 Payson Call: "Drinking Water and Ice Sup- 

 plies, and their Relations to Health and Dis- 

 ease," by T. Mitchell Prudden, M. D. ; " An 

 Elementary Hand-book on Potable Water," by 

 Floyd Davis; "Taking Cold," by Francke II. 

 Bosworth, M. D. ; " Hygienic Physiology," by 

 D. F. Lincoln, M. D. ; " Household Hygiene," by 

 Mary Taylor Bissell, M. D., who wrote also " Physi- 

 cal Development and Exercise for Women"; 

 "Comprehensive Physical Culture," by Mabel 

 Jenness; "Woman and Health," by M. Augusta 

 Fairchild, M. D. ; " The Mother's Guide and 

 Daughter's Friend," by an old practitioner ; and 

 " Vacation Time/'tby H. S. Drayton, M. D., with 

 " Hints on Summer Living," deal with methods 

 of prevention rather than cure ; while " Helps for 

 ^Home Nursing," by Irene H. Ovington; "The 

 * Doctor at Home and Nurse's Guide-book," ed- 

 ited by George Black, and "A Cyclopaedia of 

 Family Medicine, Surgery Nursing, and Hy- 

 giene," by Henry Hartshorne, M. D., are excel- 

 lent and useful of their kind. " Therapeutic 

 Sarcognomy," by Joseph Rodes Buchanan, M. D., 

 is an application of the science of the soul, 



