2,375 00 2,375 00 2,375 00 2,375 00 2.375 00 2.375 00 2.375 00 2.375 00 2,375 00 2,375 00 2.375 co 2.375 00 2,375 co 2.375 00 2.375 00 2,375 co 1.300 00 2,083 00 2,083 00 1,200 CO 1,200 00 1,200 00 1,300 00 1,300 00 1,200 00 1,230 CO 2.375 00 2,083 00 2,350 00 2,350 00 2,350 co 2,350 co 1,500 00 1.750 00 1,750 00 1,750 00 2,000 00 NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. A Treatise on Canadian Company Law. By W. J. White, Q. C., of the Montreal Bar, assisted by J. A. Ewing, B. C. L., of the Montreal Bar. Montreal: C. Theoret, 1901. The author has taken as the basis of this work the Companies' Act of the Dominion, the arrangement of which has generally been followed. One of his principal objects in its preparation has been to collect and refer to all the leading Canadian cases, which has been done with painstaking thoroughness and care. The book also contains, besides a valuable commentary on the Companies' Act of the Dominion, incidental reference to the law of the various provinces, and full notes of the jurisprudences and appendices of the statutes, and useful forms. The work is complete and authoritative, and will be found useful not only as a digest of Canadian cases on company law, but of great value as a book of reference for the student and stockholders in general. As such we have no hestitation whatever in commending it to the profession. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes, It is now nearly twenty years since the publication of the second edition of the excellent work of Mr. Bishop, and in that time some of the most important decisions relating to this branch of the law have been handed down. The editor of this, the third edition, has followed out each subject treated in the original text, adding copious notes showing the extensions or limitations of the doctrines therein set forth, and adding new sections wherever deemed advisable. The whole work is arranged in $168,970 23 admirably compact form, having now been brought down to date by Mr. Early. Mr. Bishop, universally recognized as one of the most distinguished 108,000 00 writers upon topics of criminal law, produced such an admirable work that we are glad to observe that the reviser has, in only a few instances, found it advisable or necessary to make additions to the text. He has added copious notes, presenting in compact form the results of judicial investi$314.470 23 gations of the subjects discussed, and has, in bringing the work down to date, made some four 37,500 00 thousand new citations. The index has also been amplified and will be found to extend to the new matter contained in the notes. The chapters on interpretation of statutes will, we think, be found particularly valuable to every lawyer having to do with criminal practice. The work is in one volume of over 1,000 pages, and is printed in the best lawbook style. The Heritage of Unrest. By Gwendolen Overton. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1901. The chief interest in this excellent story centers in the study of the personality of a young girl, the daughter of an Apache woman and a United States trooper, the inherited qualities resultant from this strange union constituting the Heritage of Unrest." This girl, with the traditional unrestraint and freedom of the savage, on the one side, and the more unruly characteristics of the Caucasian race on the other, becomes an intensely interesting character study in the deft hands of the authoress, who, while not, perhaps, making the most of the opportunities afforded, has produced a splendid story, strong, full of movement and life and containing many dramatic incidents. The style is excellent, and there are many descriptive passages that will impress the reader's mind indelibly. If this book be a first effort in the line of fiction, it is certainly a most creditable one. Literary Notes. The new historical novel by Mr. Charles Major is almost completed. As already announced it is entitled "Dorothy," and, as in "When Knighthood Was in Flower," the scenes are laid in England. In "Dog Watches at Sea," by Stanton H. King, which Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are soon to publish, will be found the story of twelve years "before the mast," full of a sailor's anecdotes and observations. J. A. Altsheler's new novel, entitled "The Wilderness Road," and said to be a romance of early expansion, is to be published by D. Appleton & Co. The scene is laid in Kentucky toward the end of the eighteenth century. Richard Le Gallienne's new romance, "The Love Letters of the King," will shortly be issued by Little, Brown & Company. Like Mr. Le Gallienne's previous stories, it abounds in brilliant epigrams, whole some human touches and fine conceits. "Old Bowen's Legacy" is the title of a new novel by Edwin Asa Dix, which the Century Company are to bring out in April. Mr. Dix's "Deacon Bradbury" has met with success, and has added one more type that is essentially American to our literature. Mr. Bacheller's new romance "D'Ri and I," which will be issued in book form by the Lothrop Publishing Company, September fifteenth, will be illustrated by F. C. Yohn. This author's "Eben Holden" is now selling in its two hundred and fiftieth thousand. Sarah Beaumont Kennedy's romance of Revolutionary days in the Carolinas, called "Joscelyn Cheshire," will be published in book form by Doubleday, Page & Co. The heroine is an ardent Tory. Some of the scenes are laid in the dreaded prison hulks of Wallabout Bay. Mr. Charles W. Gordon, better known to the literary world as Ralph Connor, is at work on a new novel on the lines of "Black Rock" and "The Sky Pilot," which is to be entitled "The Man from Glengarrie's." The Fleming H. Revell Company will publish the book on its completion. The phenomenal sales of Mr. Gordon's earlier books show no signs of decreasing. "Blennerhassett," by the author of "Quincy Adams Sawyer," Charles Felton Pidgin, is now in preparation at the C. M. Clark Publishing Company. The book will probably not appear before August. It is said to be a stirring romance founded on the lives of Aaron Burr, his daughter, Theodosia, Alexander Hamilton, Harman Blennerhassett, and other historical characters of the first quarter of the last century. "Sir Christopher," Maud Wilder Goodwin's forthcoming colonial romance, introduces several favorite characters that appeared in "The Head of a Hundred," and also Romney Huntoon, a son of Humphrey Huntoon. The scene of the story is laid in Virginia and Maryland in 1644. and its climax deals with the attack on St. Mary's by Claiborne, Ingle, and their men. "Sir Christopher" will be published by Messrs. Little, Brown & Company. Popular books on astronomy are to be numerous this spring. Besides Mr. George C. Comstock's Text-Book of Astronomy" and Mr. Garrett P. Serviss's "Pleasures of the Telescope," announced for immediate publication by Messrs D. Appleton & Co., we are to have 'The Romance of the Heavens," by A. W. Bickerton, professor of chemistry at the New Zealand University, which the Macmillan Company will publich immediately. A chapter which will probably cause some attention is that which deals with the possible immortality of the Cosmos. The author, we are informed, has tried to write a book which with careful reading may be followed by any person with a good school knowledge of experimental science. The third volume of Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart's "American History Told by Contemporaries,” has been issued by The Macmillan Company. It deals with the formation and development of the Federal Constitution and economic readjustment of the Nation after the war of 1812, and with the beginning of the slavery contests. Volume IV will be an attempt, from the words of those who took part in the epoch of the civil war, to describe the causes, coming on, progress, incidents, and results of that great struggle. In "The Son of Amram," by the Rev. G. Monroe Royce, Mr. Thomas Whittaker announces a historical novel, whose scenes antedate any of the popular romances of the day. In the form of fiction the author will endeavor to give a true and complete account of Moses and the beginning of Israel, and in his preface, the Rev. Mr. Royce states that "The Son of Amram is written from first to last in the spirit of Biblical and Hebrew tradition, but at the same time in the full light of the latest and highest criticism both literary and archæological. Mr. Norman Hapgood is in London, where he will remain until September. The publication of his "Life of Washington" has been postponed until October. This book, although originally intended as a companion volume to the author's of "Abraham Lincoln," was found to demand about three times as much research as was required to produce the latter, for, scattered through the numberless documents connected with the Revolution ar are all sorts of stories and impressions of Washington which a cautious biographer must sift with great discrimina tion. The Heritage of Unrest" seems to be attracting some attention on account of its treatment of a racial situation which has passed away but which dominated social and political condition in the southwest about thirty years ago. The author, Miss Gwendolen Overton, writes of frontier politicians, army posts, and Indians with so much insight that we wonder if this is really her first book. It is a novel with the quality of history at the same time holding its interest as fiction with all the fascination of a human document as the New York "Mail and Express says. A book of no little interest to those who have been following recent international controversies will be "American Diplomatic Questions," by John B. Henderson, Jr., which The Macmillan Company have in the press for early publication. The book consists of a series of essays or historical reviews upon the "Behring Sea Controversy," the "North East Coast Fisheries, Samoa," the "Monroe Doctrine," and the "Negotiations Relating to the Isthmian Canal." These five important subjects of American diplomacy are treated historically, and the correspondence relating to it is critically examined from the point of view of the student of international law.. The later phases of these questions are practically discussed especially in their legal bearings. The article upon the Monroe doctrine is perhaps the most comprehensive, historical account which has yet appeared of that famous national policy, and involves the consideration of many international issues resulting from its observance. Mr. Henderson has tried to maintain an attitude of strict impartiality, and has sought throughout to do justice to all sides. in the political controversies which have arisen from the popular consideration of these questions. Miss Beatrice Harraden has begun her new novel. Its scene is to be, in part at least, in Norway. Of the peasants of the country the author saw a great deal last year, as she broke her leg near the ankle when getting off her pony on a mountain excursion. Notwithstanding her pain, Miss Harraden rode home. The leg was badly set, and she had to go to Christiania and have the healing fracture rebroken in order to get her foot straight. Later, she paid a visit to Denmark, and was given a public dinner there and presented with a medal. All of which we learn from the "Athenaeum." Mr. Andrew Carnegie's recent gifts, particularly those to the communities of the men whose labor augmented his fortunes, should arouse fresh interest in his book, "The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays," which is published by the Century Company. From it we quote this significant passage: "The gospel of wealth but echoes Christ's words. It calls upon the millionaire to sell all that he hath and give it in the highest and best form to the poor by administering his estate himself for the good of his fellows, before he is called upon to lie down and rest upon the bosom of Mother Earth." A new field in American historical fiction is presented in 'The Curious Career of Roderick Campbell," by Jean N. McIlwraith, a Canadian writer, whose "History of Canada" has been the preparatory work of this tale, which Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just issued. It is a story of the uprising for the Pretender in Scotland, and of the struggle between the French and English in New York and Canada for the possession of the Ohio Valley. A love story serves as background for some historical portraiture Montcalm, Bourgainville, St. Pierre, with a glimpse of George Washington. During the spring Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. will publish twelve books of fiction, three miscellaneous volumes and one book of poems. Among the fiction which this firm announces are "A Sack of Shakings," short stories by Frank T. Bullen; a volume of short stories of the great Northwest and the Klondike, by Jack London, author of "Son of the Wolf;' 'The Cruise of the Petrel," a novel of the naval side of the war of 1812, dealing largely with the romance and adventures of privateering, and founded in part on the records of the log book of Rear-Admiral Jenkins, the grandfather of the author, Mr. T. Jenkins Hains; "Sons of the Sword," a historical novel of Napoleon's time, by Mrs. Woods, an English writer, whose story is highly spoken of by English critics, among them Mrs. Humphrey Ward; "Valencia's Garden," a new novel by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield, author of "The Archbishop and the Lady;" "The Inheritors," a novel by Joseph Conrad, author of "Lord Jim; "Jack Racer," a novel by a new writer, Henry Summerville; a volume of railroad stories by Frank H. Spearman; and a volume of short stories of city life and common people by Edith Wyatt. 66 The same firm will also publish Colonization," by Poultney Bigelow; "The Life of Stanton," by Frank A. Flower, and "Lovers of the Woods," by W. A. Boardman. The careers of two eminent American statesmen who have passed away within the past month are sketched in the April Review of Reviews. General Thomas J. Morgan tells the story of ex-President Benjamin Harrison's life work, while the halfforgotten achievements of ex-Senator William M. Evarts are reviewed by Dr. Albert Shaw, who describes with insight and discrimination the remarkable services of Mr. Evarts in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, in the famous Alabama claims award, and in the argument before the electoral commission of 1877, which resulted in the seating of President Hayes. 66 Little, Brown & Co.'s spring list includes Sir Christopher," by Maud Wilder Goodwin; "Ballantyne," a strong novel by Helen Campbell: Richard Le Gallienne's new romance, "The Love Letters of the King, or The Life Romantic; "A Daughter of New France," by Mary Catherine Crowley; a unique problem story by Ellis Meredith; "Truth Dexter," by Sidney McCall; "Portia, a Story of the Seventies," a powerful story of a North Carolina town by a new writer; Anna Bowman Dodd's new book, "The American Husband in Paris;" new editions of Mrs. Fawcett's "Life of Queen Victoria," and of Prof. Benjamin W. Wells' "Modern Berman Literature;" and a limited edition of "In and Around the Grand Canyon," by Prof. George Wharton James. Legal Notes. Some statistician has discovered that during 122 years of the history of the State of New York, there have been 48,383 laws passed. ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first, has been received. It makes a handsome book of 682 pages. The annual meeting for 1901, the twenty-fourth in the history of the association, will be held at Denver, Col., on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, August twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third. This is further west than the association has ever met. The June, 1901, session of the New York Court of Appeals will be held at the city and county hall in the city of Buffalo, commencing June third, and continuing three weeks only. Appeals from orders and original motions should be noticed for June third. The succeeding session will be held at the capitol in the city of Albany, commencing Monday, September thirtieth, and will continue six weeks. The act providing a code of laws for the District of Columbia was passed by the congress in the closing hours of its recent session, and goes into effect on January 1, 1902, on which date the present collection of antiquated and in many respects inconsistent laws will give place to a carefully-framed and well-considered code in the preparation of which the best legal talent of the district has been engaged. Henry C. Bates, of Vermont, who has been appointed district judge in the Philippines, at a salary of $5,000 a year, sailed for Manila, April first. He was lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1898, and was a member of the State Senate in 1888-89, at which session he was president pro tem. Mr. Bates was born at Derby, Vt., January 29, 1843. During the civil war he served in the defense of Washington, and upon receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the great struggle, he resumed the study of the law, which his war service had interrupted, being admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1866. In 1882 he formed a partnership with Elisha May, of St. Johnsbury, and the firm is now enjoying a large practice. Mr. Bates is generally recognized as one of the ablest advocates before the Vermont Bar. Benjamin Oppenheim, a New York attorney, against whom charges were preferred by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, has been disbarred sion in the First Department. The accused lawyer, by the unanimous direction of the Appellate Divihearing of a child named Nugent having been run over by one of the Metropolitan Company's cars, immediately proceeded to call on the child's mother, from whom he obtained a contract employing him as attorney, by which he was to receive one-half of any recovery. Justice Ingraham, giving the opinion of the Appellate Division, says: "He then proceeded to The Oregon senate has voted twenty-nine to one in favor of resubmitting the woman suffrage amend-manufacture the testimony to obtain a recovery. He ment which was defeated last June. The report of the American Bar Association, covering the proceedings of the annual meeting, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., August twenty employed Peorchia, an Italian barber, to find persons who would testify upon the trial, took affidavits from several persons, which I am satisfied were known to him to be false when verified, if they were verified; called upon others to endeavor to in duce them to testify, produced upon the trial these witnesses, who had been induced to testify falsely, and upon such testimony obtained a verdict. Two witnesses who testified to what they now say was untrue, were girls, one fifteen and the other seventeen years of age." These girls testified in these proceedings that neither of them had seen the accident and that they so informed Oppenheim when he called upon them. To induce them to testify he appealed to their sympathies, asked them to assist the child and her mother, who were poor people, as against this rich railroad company. Then, after having drawn up affidavits for them to sign, he drilled them as to the testimony they should give. In conclusion, Justice Ingraham says: "The respondent, a member of the bar, has grossly abused his position; has been guilty of an offense which, by the law of this State, is a felony, and should be no longer permitted to disgrace the profession." English Botes. The Morning Post understands that the chief justiceship of the Transvaal Colony has been offered to and accepted by the Hon. J. Rose-Innes, K. C., at present attorney-general in the Cape Colony. While trying a prisoner at a recent assize in Wales, says the St. James Gazette, Mr. Justice Mathew noticed that the jury appeared listless and bored. Suspecting the cause, he asked that those of the jury who did not understand English should hold up their hands. Eight hands were promptly raised aloft, and the trial was recommended. Forty-eight members of the legal profession the Pall Mall Gazette counts among the 213 candidates competing for the 110 contested seats on the London county council. In 1895 sixty-one lawyers (forty-two barristers and nineteen solicitors) competed, and in 1898 fifty-eight (forty-five and thirteen), so that the number of legal competitors has steadily fallen. In addressing the grand jury at the Salford Sessions, Mr. Yates, K. C., the recorder, compared the existing criminal law with that of a hundred years ago. In the course of his address he observed that there was no better illustration of the educational progress of the country than the changes that had taken place in the criminal law. A hundred years ago there were 160 offenses for which a man might be sentenced to death, and they might all thank God that they lived in 1901, and not in 1801. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, sitting in Brooklyn, has just decided that a death-bed promise made half a century ago is valid and must be fulfilled. Years ago, when the lawyers of the State of New York were perhaps less wise than they are to-day, there was a law which said that whatever property a woman might possess in her own name became the property of her husband the moment she became a wife. This manifestly unjust law, says the Kingston Freeman, was repealed in 1848, but three years before that time the wife of Zachariah Dorland died. On her marriage, she brought to her husband $5,000, and under that old law there was no necessity of her making a will, as her husband's right to her money could not be ques-ishable by death. tioned. On her death-bed, however, Mr. Dorland promised his wife that when he came to die he would give their son, J. Wesley Dorland, who was then a baby four years old, $2,000 out of his wife's money. Mr. Dorland, who afterward became a salesman for Smith Brothers, in Poughkeepsie, went on living until about a year ago, when he passed away at a ripe old age, leaving all his estate of $20,000 to his third wife, who lives in Kingston. His son, J. Wesley, grown to middle age and residing in Fishkill, remembered his father's promise to his mother on here death-bed, and quite naturally felt regret that his father had failed to keep his word. He thereupon employed James Myers and William H. Wood to sue his father's estate to recover the $2,000 which had been promised him. Mrs. Dorland, the widow, resisted the suit, and it was tried before Justice Hirschberg and a jury in Poughkeepsie, the son receiving judgment for the full amount of his claim. Now, the verdict of the jury has been sustained by the Appellate Division and Mr. Dorland will receive the $2,000 which his father promised his mother to give him years ago. It seemed almost incredible that such offenses as pocket-picking and other crimes, which now received sentences of fourteen days, were then pun Trial before a jury does not appear to be a favorite form of settling disputes in some of the County Courts of Wales; indeed, in some circuits the ancient system is in danger of becoming obsolete through sheer disuse. For instance, says the South Wales Daily News, in the courts of Glamorgan, presided over by his Honor Judge Gwilym Williams, not a single jury was empaneled during the year 1899, and the same might be written of the Welsh courts of Judge Owen. In the North Wales Circuit there were only four jury cases; while, curiously enough, the Mid-Wales and SouthWest Wales Circuits by far the smallest in the principality divided thirty jury cases evenly between them. It is refreshing to notice any indication on the part of the judiciary of a desire to restore to the bench its literary character. Its reputation in this connection has suffered severely of late. Some few of his majesty's judges have a command of correct language, but for the most part they are sadly to seek. It is but seldom that one hears in the courts |