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Adjoining States; John J. Post drew up an Index 

 of Wills proved in the Supreme Court, Courts 

 of Common Pleas, etc., of New York; and Ques- 

 tions and Answers on Probate Law were arranged 

 by William W. Stewart and Michael J. Keane. 

 John J. Crandall edited Leading Cases, Ameri- 

 can and English, on the Law of Legal Tender 

 and Money, Frank O. Loveland published A 

 Treatise on the Law and Proceedings in Bank- 

 ruptcy, and yet another Treatise on Bankruptcy 

 came from John and James Arnold Lowell. Ed- 

 win C. Brandenburgh published an Index Digest 

 of Bankruptcy Decisions and The Law of Bank- 

 ruptcy, including the National Bankruptcy Law 

 of 1898; from William Miller Collier we had The 

 Law of Bankruptcy and the National Bankruptcy 

 Act of 1898, as well as The Official Rules, Forms, 

 and General Orders in Bankruptcy prescribed by 

 the Supreme Court of the United States under 

 this act; Williamson's Complete Code of Prac- 

 tice in Bankruptcy, now in Force, was sent out, 

 as was Johnson's Handy Reference Book of Law 

 and Fact, by Walter Johnson, also containing the 

 national bankruptcy act of 1898. George W. 

 Kirchwey was responsible for A Partial Collec- 

 tion of Cases and Other Authorities on the Law 

 of Mortgage, as was James Avery Webb for A 

 Treatise on the Law of Usury and, incidentally, 

 of Interest, and John C. Kleber for Void Judicial 

 and P^xecution Sales. A Treatise on the Ameri- 

 can Law of Replevin came from Roswell Shinn, 

 A Selection of Cases on the Law of Suretyship 

 from James Barr Ames, and A Treatise on the 

 Modern Law of Municipal Securities from Bayard 

 T. Hainer. The Jurisdiction of Federal Courts, 

 as limited by the citizenship and residence of the 

 parties, was shown by Howard M. Carter; Cases 

 on Private International Law were the work of 

 John W. Dwyer; William D. Guthrie delivered 

 Lectures on the Fourteenth Article of Amend- 

 ment Law; The United States Internal Revenue 

 Laws now in Force were published with an appen- 

 dix, etc., by Mark and William Ash ; The United 

 States War Revenue Law of June 13, 1898, was 

 set forth with annotations and references com- 

 piled by T. F. Carmody and F. M. Peasley; For- 

 eign Patent and Trade-mark Laws were codified 

 by Arthur P. Greeley; and a Digest of Decisions 

 in the Patent Office and the United States Courts 

 in Patents, Trade-marks, Copyrights, and Labels, 

 the annual volume for 1898, by Amos W. Hart, 

 was intended as a supplement to Hart's Digest, 

 1886-1898. Louis M. Saunders also published an 

 Annual Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme 

 Court of United States, the Federal Courts, and 

 of the Commissioner of Patents in Matters re- 

 lating to Patents. Vol. VII was issued of United 

 States Interstate Commerce Reports; Vol. I of 

 A Handbook of the Decisions of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States, by Henry De Forest 

 Clarke, covered the period from the date of its 

 organization to the October term of 1891, and 

 Vol. II covered October terms, 1891-'98; Books 

 1, 2, and 3 of Notes on United States Reports, a 

 brief chronological digest of points determined 

 in decisions of the Supreme Court, by Walter 

 Malins Rose, were published, as were the Index 

 Digest: Supplement of the United States Supreme 

 Court; Vols. CLXXI to CLXXIV inclusive of 

 United States Supreme Court Reports, by J. C. 

 Bancroft Davis; Book 43 of the complete edition 

 of the same Reports as contained in these vol- 

 umes, with headlines, headnotes, etc., by Stephen 

 K. Williams; and Vols. XVIII and XIX of the 

 permanent edition of The United States Supreme 

 Court Reporter; Vols. XXX to XXXVI inclusive 

 of United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Re- 



ports; and nine volumes of United States Courts 

 of Appeal Reports, as well as Vols. LXXXVII to 

 XCV1 inclusive of the United States Federal Re- 

 porter, permanent edition. Vols. VI, VII, VIII, 

 IX, X, XII, and XIII of the American Digest 

 (Century edition), a complete digest of all re- 

 ported American cases from the earliest times 

 to 1896, appeared. Vol. XIII, bringing the work 

 to Costs-Courtyard, and the American Digest An- 

 nual, continuing the Century edition, was sent 

 out for 1899. American and English Corpora- 

 tion Cases, edited by Thomas J. Michie, were 

 continued with the issue of Vol. VIII, new series, 

 and American and English Railroad Cases, for 

 which we are indebted to the same editor, with 

 Vols. X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV. He also made 

 a Digest to cases reported in Vols. I to X in- 

 clusive, and began a series of Municipal Corpora- 

 tion Cases with the issue of the first volume. 

 Vol. V was reached of American and English 

 Decisions in Equity, annotated by Ardemus Stew- 

 art, and Vols. X, XI, XII, and XIII of the second 

 edition of the American and English Encyclo- 

 paedia of Law, by David S. Garland and Lucius 

 P. McGehee, under the supervision of James 

 Cockcroft, brought the work to Feud to Forward- 

 ness. Vol. VI of* The General Digest, American 

 and English, annotated, new series, remains to 

 be mentioned, as do Vols. LXIV to LXIX inclu- 

 sive of American State Reports, reported and 

 annotated by A. C. Freeman, and a brief digest 

 to Vols. LXI to LXVI, with index to the notes 

 and a table of cases reported, by J. M. Ross. The 

 permanent editions of the United States Federal 

 Reporter, Atlantic Reporter, and Pacific Reporter 

 were increased with the issue of several new 

 volumes respectively, and the Reports of the 

 several States were too numerous to be included. 

 The Lawyers' Reports Annotated, by B. A. Rich 

 and Henry P. Farnham, in addition to the issue 

 of Books 41 to 44 inclusive, contained a Digest 

 of the cases, Vols. XXI to XL, with table of cases 

 and index to annotations and briefs, Vols. I to XL. 

 Vols. Ill and IV of A Digest of Decisions and 

 Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania Law, 1754-1898, 

 by George Wharton Pepper and William Draper 

 Lewis, covered respectively Constitutions to Cor- 

 porations and Costs to Deeds; A Treatise on the 

 Poor Laws of Pennsylvania was written by Cal- 

 vin G. Beitel; Salem Dutcher collected Expres- 

 sions of Law and Fact construed by the Courts 

 of Georgia; Indiana Municipal Law was handled 

 by John E. Scott; and W. H. Whittaker drew 

 up The Ohio Justices' Code. Arthur English was 

 the author of A Dictionary of Words and Phrases 

 used in Ancient and Modern Law; A. H. Garland 

 imparted his Experience in the Supreme Court 

 of the United States, with Some Reflections and 

 Suggestions as to that Tribunal; Natural Law 

 and Legal Practice were the theme of lectures 

 delivered at the Law School of Georgetown Uni- 

 versity by Ren6 I. Holaind; Questions and An- 

 swers for Bar Examination and Review were pre- 

 pared by Charles S. Haight and Arthur M. Marsh ; 

 and J. W. Donovan wrote on Skill in Trials. 

 Questions and Answers on Twenty of the most 

 Important Legal Subjects were designed espe- 

 cially for the use of law students by Wilber A. 

 Owen, and Paschal H. Coggins discoursed in brief 

 compass on Law and How to Keep Out of It. J. 

 H. Hubbell and Joseph A. Boyer edited respec- 

 tively Hubbell's Legal Directory and Boyer's 

 Legal Directory as usual. 



Juvenile. Books for young people were more 

 numerous than ever, and ranked third in the list 

 of publications, yielding precedence only to the 

 departments of fiction and law. The total showed 



