self. The book also contains a concise statement of the leading principles in all departments of the law, and numbered classifications very helpful to the memory. The references are to the latest and best text-books. An appendix contains the rules regulating admission to the Bar in all the States and Territories. A. B. WEIMER.

COURTS AND THEIR JURISDICTION. By JOHN D. WORKS, formerly one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of California. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company.

908 pages.

1894.

This work runs into many branches of the law, and is concerned largely with questions of jurisdiction. The titles of the chapters are: 1. Courts. 2. General Principles Affecting Jurisdiction. 3. Means of Acquiring Jurisdiction. 4. Venue. 5. Judges. 6. Common Law, Equity and Statutory Jurisdiction. The first five chapters contain a very complete and careful statement of the general principles of jurisdiction and a description of the organization of courts. In the last chapter which constitutes considerably over a third of the entire book, special subjects are considered, such as Probate, Garnishment, Crimes, Divorce, Sales of Real Estate, Injunctions, etc. These subjects are, of course, treated from their purely jurisdictional side, and while the author's discussion of each of them is necessarily general in character, much practical information is conveyed to the reader.

The chief defect of the work is the failure to give a separate discussion of the specific jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. There is no jurisdictional question which a lawyer has to consider so frequently as to the scope of the jurisdiction of the United States Courts. It may be to the advantage of a client to bring a suit in a Federal rather than a State Court,' either to avoid local prejudice or to obtain the advantage of a ruling of the Federal Court contrary to that which prevails in a State Court. Innumerable questions involving rights to the enjoyment of property, immunities, commerce, “due process of law," are constantly arising, and in all such cases the first

question which confronts the practitioner is the question of the selection of his forum. In view of the importance of the subject, it is to be regretted that the author of this work did not include in it a separate, full and complete discussion of Federal jurisdiction. He has, of course, discussed many subjects relating to the Federal Courts, but only in an incidental and subordinate way.

Apart from the above criticism the author is entitled to all praise for the manner in which he has performed his work. His book is a model text-book, clear, logical, concise and accurate. It is admirably printed, and a credit to both author and publisher. A. B. WEIMER.

A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL MEDICINE. BY DR. E. REGIS, formerly Chief of Clinique of Mental Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Formerly Assistant Physicial of the Sainte-Anne Asylum. Physician of the Maison de Sante de Castel d' Andorte; Laureate of the Medico-Psychological Society and of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Professor of Mental Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux. With a Preface by M. Benjamin Ball, Clinical Professor of Mental Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Paris. A work crowned by the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, Chateauvillard Prize, 1886. Second Edition. Thoroughly revised and largely re-written. Authorized translation by H. M. BANNISTER, A.M., M.D. With Introduction by the Author. Utica, N. Y.: Press of American Journal of Insanity. 1894.

This book is unique in that, so far as we know, it is the only book on the subject of insanity written by an alienist, translated by an alienist, printed and published at an insane asylum; the mechanical work being done entirely by the patients. We have read it through with much interest. Within the moderate compass of 660 pages it gives a complete, historical, pathological, clinical and practical view of the subject of insanity. The translation is an admirable one and the book is well calculated for the use of students. It is especially valua

ble in its treatment of degeneracies of evolution, a subject which, so far as we know, is not found so well treated in any book in the English language. We cordially recommend it to the profession. M. D. EWELL.

The Kent Law School, Chicago,

October 30, 1894.

COMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OF PERSONS AND PERSONAL Property, being an Introduction to the Study of Contracts. BY THEODORE W. DWIGHT, late Professor of Law at Columbia College, New York. Edited by Edward F. Dwight, of the New York Bar. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1894.

This work is confined in its scope to those topics included in the learned author's lectures at Columbia Law School immediately preceding the course on contracts. The first book deals with the law of personal rights and personal relations, and chapters are devoted to citizens, aliens, infancy, and finally to corporations. The important part of the second book treats of the method of acquiring ownership.

The book, while intended primarily for students, recommends itself not only to neophytes but to the young hierophants in the temple of justice, and may well be read by those who care to refresh their memory and understanding by reviewing the fundamental principles on which the law must ever rest. While neglecting none of the masters who have preceded him, nor forgetting the judicial declarations germane to his subjects, the work is not a mere digest nor a compilation of excerpts loosely thrown together as so many text-books are, which bear the impress of being written to order. The author has stamped his individuality on his work; his plan or scheme is well defined and sustained. The subject-matter is marshalled with intelligence and in natural sequence. The style is simple and terse but interesting and attractive.

The tables and index are full and complete, and both suggestive and responsive. It is sufficient to have named the publishers to give assurance of all the superior excellences of

the bookmakers' art, which always delight us in the productions of Little, Brown & Co. Even in these days of multitudinous productions this work may be said to shew cause. E. P. ALLINSON.

CASES ON CRIMINAL LAW. By JOSEPH HENRY BEALE, Jr., Assistant Professor of Law in Harvard University. Harvard Law Review Publishing Association.

Professor BEALE, in his recent work upon selected cases from the Criminal Law, has placed before the profession a work which is entitled to the highest appreciation. In the arrangement of the cases, Professor BEALE has brought into accessible form, and discncumbered of text, what has been heretofore involved in text and note and almost concealed in the accretion of years of legal literature.

In the reported cases, the Bench, speaking, give the reason "for the faith." The cases present the Criminal Law in clear, concise and forcible terms, that are casily apprehendible.

The work evinces thoughtful care in the selection of the cases and an intelligent appreciation of the principles of the law concerned in the arrangement.

The range of the cases is from the early times of reported cases to the more recent English and American periods. The author, in presenting a principle of the Criminal Law, selects a case which elucidates it so clearly that the reason therefor stands forth as a model of perspicuity.

Professor BEALE, with great modesty, announces that the "collection of cases is chiefly intended for the use of classes in the schools." As a method of enabling the student to grasp the legal principle contained in the discussion of the case by the paths of thought, the syllabus has been dispensed with. An index, however, with the case in point, is attached to the work.

To the lawyer, the case involving the principle is readily ascertained, and to the student, the cases being grouped under the appropriate headings, the defined purpose of Professor BEALE is accomplished, the development of the mind by its

ble in its treatment of degeneracies of evolution, a subject
which, so far as we know, is not found so well treated in any
book in the English language. We cordially recommend it
to the profession.
M. D. EWELL.

The Kent Law School, Chicago,
October 30, 1894.

COMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OF PERSONS AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY, being an Introduction to the Study of Contracts.
By THEODORE W. DWIGHT, late Professor of Law at
Columbia College, New York. Edited by EDWARD F.
DWIGHT, of the New York Bar. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co. 1894.

This work is confined in its scope to those topics included in the learned author's lectures at Columbia Law School immediately preceding the course on contracts. The first book deals with the law of personal rights and personal relations, and chapters are devoted to citizens, aliens, infancy, and finally to corporations. The important part of the second book treats of the method of acquiring ownership.

ever rest.

The book, while intended primarily for students, recommends itself not only to neophytes but to the young hierophants in the temple of justice, and may well be read by those who care to refresh their memory and understanding by reviewing the fundamental principles on which the law must While neglecting none of the masters who have preceded him, nor forgetting the judicial declarations germane to his subjects, the work is not a mere digest nor a compilation of excerpts loosely thrown together as so many text-books are, which bear the impress of being written to order. The author has stamped his individuality on his work; his plan or scheme is well defined and sustained. The subject-matter is marshalled with intelligence and in natural sequence. The style is simple and terse but interesting and attractive.

The tables and index are full and complete, and both suggestive and responsive. It is sufficient to have named the publishers to give assurance of all the superior excellences of