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Willson, to which Lord Strathcona and Mount 

 Royal contributed an introduction, and which 

 was illustrated with original drawings by Arthur 

 Heming. Another Canadian work, of far greater 

 compass and consequence, was The United King- 

 dom: A Political History, by Prof. Goldwin 

 Smith, in two volumes. Prof. George Burton 

 Adams gave an outline of the development of 

 European History; Hon. Thomas E. Watson un- 

 dertook to condense The Story of France from 

 the earliest times to the consulate of Napoleon 

 Bonaparte into two volumes, the first of which 

 extended To the End of the Reign of Louis Fif- 

 teenth: Germany: Her People and their Story, 

 was a popular history of the beginnings, rise and 

 development, and progress of the German Em- 

 pire from Armenius to William II, told for Amer- 

 icans by Mrs. Augusta Hale Gifford; Frederick 

 Albion *Ober contributed Spain to Appletons' 

 series of History for Young Readers; Leonard 

 Williams wrote A Child's History of Spain; and 

 from Mrs. Mary Platt Parmele we had A Short 

 History of Spain. Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer 

 wrote of Judea from Cyrus to Titus, 537 B. c.- 

 70 A. i). The first of efght volumes destined to 

 contain The Library of Universal History, by 

 Israel Smith Clare, was devoted to Ancient Ori- 

 ental Nations: eight volumes also contained Rid- 

 pat h's History of the World, by John Clark 

 Ridpath; Orlando P. Schmidt was the author of 

 A Self-verifying Chronological History of An- 

 cient Egypt, from the Foundation of the King- 

 dom to the Beginning of the Persian Dynasty: A 

 Book of Startling Discoveries; Outlines of Gen- 

 eral History were prepared by Frank Moore 

 Colby; and "from Edwin A. Grosvenor we had a 

 Contemporary History of the World. The Battles 

 of All Nations, from the Earliest Times to the 

 Present Day, according to Edgar Saltus, filled 

 two volumes. How the Black St. Domingo Le- 

 gion saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of 

 Savannah, 1779, was the subject of one of the 

 brief Occasional Papers of the American Negro 

 Academy, contributed by T. G. Steward. Leslie's 

 History of the Greater New York was an impor- 

 tant undertaking, and from Charles Burr Todd 

 we had A Brief History of the City of New York. 

 Jurisprudence. More books were published 

 in this department during 1899 than in any other, 

 excepting fiction. Four hundred and fifty-four 

 new books and 35 new editions were recorded, 

 and of the total of 489, 482 were by American 

 authors. 



The second volume of Austin Abbott's Forms 

 of Pleading for Legal or Equitable Relief was 

 completed after the author's decease by Charles 

 G. Alden and given to the public, thus completing 

 a work of standard value, prepared with especial 

 reference to the codes of procedure of the vari- 

 ous States and adapted to the present practice 

 in many common-law States; A Treatise on the 

 Practice and Procedure of the United States Su- 

 preme Court was written by Heber J. May; Vol. 

 I initiated a series of American Practice Reports 

 of official leading cases in all State and Federal 

 courts, edited by Charles A. Ray; A Manual 

 of Practice in the Courts of the United States, 

 by Robert Desty, went through a ninth edition, 

 revised and brought to date, etc., by M. A. Fol- 

 som ; and a second edition was sent out of Edwin 

 Baylies's Trial Practice. Joseph H. Budd was 

 the author of A Treatise on the Law of Civil 

 Remedies; J. H. Levy edited The Necessity for 

 .'nimnal Appeal, as Illustrated by the Maybrick 



ase and the Jurisprudence of Various Coun- 

 Summary of Torts was made by Prof 



rank Alexander Erwin; and W. L. Williams set 



forth Statutory Torts in Massachusetts. Two 

 volumes contained Woolen's Trial Procedure, 

 William Watson Woolen's treatise on the law 

 of Indiana, and Kentucky Criminal Law and 

 Procedure came from James M. Roberson. A 

 sixth edition was sent out of George Tucker 

 Bispham's Principles of Equity, and a second 

 edition of The Law of Pleading in Civil Actions 

 and Defenses under the Code, by Edgar B. Kin- 

 kead, in two volumes. Shepard's Citations to the 

 American and English Encyclopaedia of Law were 

 compiled under the personal supervision of 

 Frank Shepard; Vols. XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and 

 XVII were issued of the Encyclopaedia of Plead- 

 ing and Practice, edited by William M. McKin- 

 ney; and Vols. VIII, IX, and X of the Encyclo- 

 paedia of Forms and Precedents for Pleading and 

 Practice, edited by William Mack and Howard 

 P. Nash, under the supervision of James Cock- 

 croft. A volume of Hornbook Monographs ap- 

 peared anonymously, and a second revised and 

 enlarged edition was made of The Law of Pre- 

 sumptive Evidence, by John D. Lawson. W. C. 

 Rogers published A Treatise on the Law of Do- 

 mestic Relations; Jeremiah Smith, Cases on Se- 

 lected Topics in the Law of Persons; Charles E. 

 Chadman wrote for the Home Law School Series 

 on Personal Rights and the Domestic Relations 

 and on Principles of the Law of Contract and 

 of Partnership; Francis M. Burdick expounded 

 The Law of Partnership; David T. Corbin set 

 forth The Law of Personal Injuries in the State 

 of Illinois, and the Remedies and Defenses of Liti- 

 gants; Stewart Chaplin drew up A Treatise on 

 the Law of Landlord and Tenant as it Exists in 

 the State of New York ; and Edwin W. De Leon 

 and Sidney N. Moon collaborated upon The Law 

 of Liability. Vol. Ill of The Law of Negligence, 

 by William Hardcastle Brown, completed that 

 work; John M. Gardner edited Vols. IV and V 

 of American Negligence Reports, Current Series, 

 and T. F. Hamilton Vol. IX of American Negli- 

 gence Cases; a second revised and enlarged edi- 

 tion was made of The Civil Liability for Personal 

 Injuries arising out of Negligence, by Henry F. 

 Buswell, and a second edition of Cases on the 

 Law of Damages compiled by Floyd R. Mechem; 

 and John J. Crawford prepared a third edition 

 of A Treatise on the Law of Contributory Negli- 



fence, by Charles Fisk Beach, Jr. Edward W. 

 pencer arranged The Elements of Commercial 

 Law as a practical text-book for use in schools, 

 and a work of similar character was O. B. Park- 

 inson's Outlines of Commercial Law. A Treatise 

 on the Law of Commercial Paper, by Joseph F. 

 Randolph, in three volumes, went through a sec- 

 ond edition; Montgomery Rollins compiled The 

 Laws regulating the Investment of Bank Funds; 

 Vol. XI of The Digest of Insurance Cases, edited 

 by John A. Finch, was issued, as was The Indi- 

 cator's Digest of Insurance Decisions. Three vol- 

 umes contained The Annotated Corporation Laws 

 of all the States, compiled and edited by Robert 

 C. Cumming, Frank B. Gilbert, and Henry L. 

 Woodward. Vol. VII completed Seymour Dwight 

 Thompson's Commentaries on the Law of Pri- 

 vate Corporations, and Vol. VII was issued of 

 the American Corporation Legal Manual, edited 

 by Charles L. Borgmeyer. Frank H. Sommer pre- 

 pared citations, extracts, and cases on Property 

 in Land for use in the New York University Law 

 School; Vol. V was issued of The Law of Real 

 Property, edited by Tilghman Ballard and E. 

 Emerson; Jaspar C. Gates compiled Cases on the 

 Law of Real Property; J. T. Donfy offered A 

 Concise Summary of the Principles and Decisions 

 relating to Realty Practice in Pennsylvania and 



