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The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence. By ALFRED SWAINE TAYLOR, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence in Grey's Hospital. Second Edition. Vols. I. and II. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. 1873.

A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. By ALFRED SWAINE TAYLOR, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Chemistry in Grey's Hospital. Seventh American edition. Revised from the Author's latest Notes, and edited, with additional Notes and References, by JOHN J. REESE, M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology in the University of Pennsylvania, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Honorary Member of the New York Medico-Legal Society. With Illustrations on Wood. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. 1873.

THESE two works, the latter in effect a compendium of the former, although it had reached seven editions in England before the larger work was published, are simultaneously issued by Henry C. Lea, of Philadelphia. The latter is an American edition, printed in Philadelphia; the former, although bearing the imprint of the same publisher, is evidently the English publication.

This is a medical, not strictly a legal treatise. The practising lawyer needs a work on "medical jurisprudence" just as he needs a chemical dictionary or a work on engineering, because he must know something of every thing; but we take it that what our author calls a "medical jurist" is really a physician who, knowing that some time or other he may be called as a witness in some legal investigation, has especially prepared himself in those branches of medical science which are likely to be of assistance in that investigation, and is in no sense a lawyer. In other words, he means by a medical jurist a medical witness, called as an expert. But it seems to us that the word “ jurist” is so obviously misapplied that it were better to stop at the established compound" medical jurisprudence."

This work is purely medical in the subjects it treats of, although they are those which the law is frequently applied to, and it is therefore professedly a text-book for doctors, and we shall not attempt to criticise its contents. It has been for some time a standard authority on the subjects of which it treats, and has been now enlarged and revised, with additions, from recent investigations.

Reports of Cases heard and determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Appeal in Chancery. By J. P. DE GEX, F. FISHER, and H. CADMAN JONES, Barristers at Law. Edited, with Notes and References to American Law and subsequent English Decisions, by J. C. PERKINS. Vol. I. 1859, 1860. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1873.

Same, Vol. II. 1860, 1861. Same, Vol. III. 1860, 1861.

It would, of course, be superfluous for us to review at any length the English reports of De Gex, Fisher, and Jones, with which the profession are

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already so familiar. Neither do we think we can say any thing concerning the republication of this series that will not apply equally to each of the Chancery Reports, republished in this country by Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., under the editorship of Mr. Perkins. To the reports of Clark and Finnelly we have lately referred. The typography and press work are carefully and conscientiously done, and the series, being well and uniformly bound, presents an attractive appearance. The "notes and references to American law and subsequent English decisions," which, as far as we are able to judge, and a priori from Mr. Perkins's reputation, are accurate and trustworthy, render this more desirable to the American lawyer than the English publication.

Bench and Bar. Chicago.

Chicago Legal News. Chicago.

Legal Gazette. Philadelphia.

Legal Opinion. Harrisburg, Pa.

The New York Medical Journal. New York, N. Y.

Pacific Law Reporter. San Francisco.

The Pittsburgh Legal Journal. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Superior Court at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis.

The Albany Law Journal. Albany, N. Y.

The American Law Record. Cincinnati.

The American Law Register. Philadelphia.

The American Law Times and Reports. New York.

The Canada Law Journal. Toronto.

The Cincinnati Superior Court Reporter. Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal. New York.

The Law Magazine and Review. London.

The Law Times. London.

The Legal Chronicle. Pottsville, Pa.
The Legal Intelligencer. Philadelphia.

The Lower Canada Jurist. Montreal.

The National Bankruptcy Register. New York.

The St. Louis Journal of Law. St. Louis.
The United States Jurist. Washington, D. C.

The Western Jurist. Des Moines, Iowa.

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A LIST OF LAW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA SINCE OCTOBER, 1873.

Alabama Reports. Vol. 47. (Jones.) 8vo, sheep, $6.50. Montgomery.

American Reports. Vol. 9.
Albany.

(Thompson.) 8vo, sheep, $6.00. John D. Parsons, Jr.,

Baker's Laws relating to Burials. With Notes and Forms. Fourth edition. 12mo, Ss. Maxwell, London.

Brightly's Federal Digest. Vol. 2. 1868-73. Second edition. By F. C. Brightly. 8vo, sheep, $6.50. Kay & Brother, Philadelphia.

Connecticut Reports. Vol. 39. (Hooker.) 8vo, sheep, $5.00. Hartford.
Clark and Finnelly's House of Lords Reports. 1831-46. Edited, with Notes and Ref-
erences to American Law and subsequent English Decisions, by Hon. J. C.
Perkins. In 12 vols. Vols. 6 and 7. 8vo, sheep, per volume, $6.00. Little,
Brown, & Co., Boston.
Curtis's Law of Patents.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. By George T.

Curtis. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

De Gex, Fisher, and Jones's Reports. Edited, with Notes and References to American Law and subsequent English Decisions, by Hon. J. C. Perkins. Vol. 4. 8vo, sheep, $5.00. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

De Gex, Jones, and Smith's Reports. Edited, with Notes and References to American Law and subsequent English Decisions, by Hon. J. C. Perkins. Vol. 1. 8vo, sheep, $5.00. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

Delaware Reports. (Houston.) Vol. 3. 8vo, sheep, $12.00. Wilmington.
English Reports. Vol. 4. Edited by N. C. Moak. 8vo, sheep, $6.00. William
Gould & Son, Albany.

Fisher's Patent Reports. Reports of Cases relating to Letters-Patent for Inventions determined in the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States. By William H. Fisher. Vol. 1. 8vo, sheep, $15. R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. Gilbert's Railway Law in Illinois. 8vo, sheep, $4.50. Callaghan & Co., Chicago. Grant's Treatise on the Law relating to Bankers and Banking Companies. Third

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Diossy & Co., New York.

Guernesey's Mechanics' Lien Law. 8vo, sheep, $4.50.
Illinois Reports. Vols. 57 and 58. (Freeman.) 8vo, sheep, $5.50 per volume. Spring-

field. 1873.

Indiana Reports. Vol. 39. (Black.) 8vo, sheep, $5.00. Indianapolis.

Kent's Commentaries. Twelfth edition. Edited by O. W. Holmes, Jr. 4 vols. 8vo, sheep, $20.00. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

Littleton and Blatchley's Digest of Fire Insurance Decisions in the Courts of Great
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Bates. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Baker, Voorhis, & Co., New York.
Maryland Reports. Vol. 37. (Stockett.) 8vo, sheep, $5.00. Baltimore.
May on the Law of Insurance. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.
May's Treatise on the Laws of Proceedings and Usage of Parliament. Seventh edi-
tion. 8vo, 40s. Butterworths, London.

Missouri Reports. Vol. 51. (Post.) 8vo, sheep, $4.50. W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis.
Michigan Reports. Vol. 25. (Post.) 8vo, sheep, $4.00.

Lansing.

Montana Territory Reports. Vol. 1. (Blake.) 8vo, sheep, $7.00. George F. Cope, Virginia City.

Murray's (F. P.) Table of Cases, affirmed, reversed, cited, and

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Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts of the United States. 8vo, sheep, $5.00.
Weed, Parsons, & Co., Albany.

Nash's Pleading and Practice, under the Codes of Ohio, New York, Kansas, and Nebraska. With appropriate Forms. By Simeon Nash. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo, sheep, $15.00. R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati.

Nevada Reports. Vol. 8. (Helm.) 8vo, sheep, $8.00. San Francisco.

New Jersey Reports. (Pennington.) New edition. 2 vols. 8vo, sheep, $15.00. Diossy & Co., New York.

New York Reports. Howard's Practice. Vol. 45. 8vo, sheep, $4.50. William Gould & Son, Albany.

New York Superior Court Reports. Vols. 6 and 7. (Lansing.) 8vo, sheep, $3.00 per volume. Banks & Brothers, New York.

New York Superior Court Reports. Vol. 34. (Jones and Spencer.) 8vo, sheep, $7.00. Diossy & Co., New York.

New York Reports. Abbott's Practice. New series. Vol. 14. 8vo, sheep, $5. Diossy & Co., New York.

New York Reports. Abbott's Court of Appeals and Decisions. Vol. 3. 8vo, sheep, $6.00. Diossy & Co., New York.

New York Court of Appeals Reports. Vol. 51.
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North's Illinois Probate Practice. 8vo, sheep, $5.00.
Ohio Reports. Cincinnati Superior Court Reports.
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Opinions of Attorneys-General. Vol. 13. Edited by A. J. Bentley. 8vo, sheep, $3.00.
W. H. & O. H. Morrison, Washington.

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Rhode Island Reports. Vol. 9. (Tobey.) 8vo, sheep, $6.00. Providence.

South Carolina Reports. New series. Vol. 3. (Richardson.) 8vo, sheep, $6.00. Columbia.

Story's Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence. Eleventh edition. Carefully revised, with extensive Additions. By F. V. Balch, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo, sheep, $15.00. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

Texas Practice. (Sayles.) Second edition. 8vo, sheep, $10.00. E. H. Cushing,
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Texas Reports. Vol. 35. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. E. H. Cushing, Houston.
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Mitchell, London.

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Virginia. Digest of Grattan's Reports. Vols. 1-21. By William L. Royall. 8vo, sheep, $8.00. Diossy & Co., New York.

Washburn's Easements and Servitudes. Third edition. By Emory Washburn, LL.D. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston.

SUMMARY OF EVENTS.

UNITED STATES.

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CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. - The Supreme Court came in on the twentythird of October, and the Attorney General presented, with appropriate remarks, the resolutions of the bar on the death of the late Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Clifford responded with an extended eulogy, in which he reviewed at some length the character and services of his late associate, and his claims to the affection and respect of his countrymen.

THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP. THE HON. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. On the third of December, the Hon. George H. Williams, the Attorney General, was nominated as Chief Justice. Mr. Williams has, within a few years, been called to fill in rapid succession some of the most exalted places under our government: as a senator, as a member of the Joint High Commission, and, lastly, as the official head of the American bar, he has had ample opportunity for the display of great talents, and in all these positions he has acquitted himself in such a manner as neither to invite distinguished praise nor, except in the Pacific Railroad case, to provoke much adverse criticism. If the public have seen in him as yet little to justify his selection for the high promotion with which the President has honored him, they have seen nothing to indicate that in his hands the dignity of his great office will be lowered or its powers used unworthily. Indeed, while it would be idle to deny that the nomination was a disappointment to all who had hoped that the seat of Marshall might be filled by a fitting successor, yet that disappointment was tempered by a sense of relief that the country had at least escaped the mortification of seeing in that honored place a man destitute alike of judicial temper and judicial experience, whose only claim to it was derived from active and unscrupulous service as a political partisan.

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Of Mr. Williams's judicial experience there is little to say. He was born in 1823, and was admitted to the bar in New York. Three years afterwards, in 1847, he was elected judge of the first judicial district of Iowa, and in 1853 he was appointed Chief Justice of Oregon Territory, an office which he held till 1857, when he declined a reappointment, as he then left the bench to begin his political career. Such a training does not of necessity give that familiarity with questions of the class upon which the Supreme Court is called to pass, which we have been taught to consider desirable; but it is calculated at least to free the mind from narrowing local influences.

We cannot conclude without expressing our regret that the President, in making this the most important appointment of his administration, has not improved the opportunity to make such a choice from the eminent lawyers of the country as the people had a right to expect, notwithstanding past experi

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