NEW BOOKS FOR LAWYERS.

THE COMPLETE COURT RULES. As amended to Januar)- i, 1900. Matthew Bender, Albany, N. Y. 1900. Paper. This work contains the rules of all the Courts of Record of the State of New York, with the judiciary article of the State Constitution and the rules regu lating law examinations. It will be appreciated by all practitioners in that state.

THE CIVIL LAW ix SPAIN AND SPANISH-AMER ICA, including Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philip pine Islands. By CLIFFORD STEVENS WALTON. W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, D. C., 1900. Law sheep, $6.25. In view of our recently assumed relations with the former colonies of Spain, this work is certainly a timely one and one which will appeal not only to the legal profession, but to every person interested in these possessions, from a legal, commercial, politi cal or historical standpoint. Mr. Walton gives a his tory of all the Spanish codes, a summary of canoni cal laws, of the principal Fueros, Ordenamientos. Councils and Ordenanzas of Spain from the earliest times to the twentieth century. The author's work has been thorough and exhaustive, and the treatise will prove of great service upon all questions arising in regard to Spanish law.

DEED FORMS ANNOTATED. Edited by EMERSON E. BALLARD. The Ballard. Publishing Co., Logansport, Ind., 1900. Law sheep, $3.50. This volume is designed to furnish lawyers, bank ers, abstracters, conveyancers and real estate dealers and land owners accurate information as to the formal requisites of a deed to land in all parts of the United States. The states are alphabetically ar ranged, each forming a separate division of the book, under which are set forth, with proper section heads, their respective statutory provisions concerning the requisites of a deed to land, to which are added the prescribed forms of deeds as provided for by statute. The provisions as to acknowledgment of deeds are also carefully set forth. The notes and annotations are very full. The work is one which well deserves a place in every lawyer's library.

AMERICAN STATE REPORTS, Vol. 71, containing the cases of general value and authority de cided in the courts of last resort of the several states and territories. Selected, reported and

annotated by A. C. FREEMAN. BancroftWhitney Co., San Francisco. 1900. Law sheep, $4.00. INDEX-DIGEST OF CRIMINAL LAW, including Digest of Cases and all Statutory Law. By ZEB V. WALSER, A.B., L.L. В., Attorney Gen eral of North Carolina. Assisted by Z. I. WALSER, B. Lit., of the Lexington (N. C.) bar. All the criminal statutes of the State of North Carolina contained in The Code of 1883 and the Acts of the Legislatures of 1885, 1887. 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897 and 1899 have been carefully di gested and incorporated with the decisions in the Index-Digest, thus constituting the Index-Digest, a complete digest of all the criminal law. statutory and judicial, to be found in that state. In connection with each title there will be found a carefully pre pared table of cross references. The value and im portance of this feature cannot be too highly esti mated. By this means the investigator is enabled to trace those topics which, being susceptible of separation, constitute independent titles; also to find other subjects more or less intimately related. The second part of the book, the " cited cases " feature, is an alphabetical list of the nearly twenty-eight hun dred criminal cases to be found in the one hundred and twenty-four volumes of reports, with every cita tion of each case since it was decided, the point of law to which it was cited, and whether it has been overruled, criticised, doubted or distinguished. A very large number of civil cases, in which criminal cases have been cited and discussed, are to be found along with the criminal cases.

FORGERY, ITS DETECTION AND ILLUSTRATION, with numerous causes célèbres. Illustrated. By DANIEL T. AMES. Law sheep, $3.00. Cloth, 52.50. Address all orders to Danl. T. Ames, 24 Post St., San Francisco, Cal. No expert on handwriting has attained a higher reputation than the author of this volume, and in this work he presents in a clear and simple manner some facts drawn from forty years of continuous work in connection with the chirographic art. The book is one of more than usual interest and the cases described include many of the most noted in the annals of American jurisprudence. Mr. Ames believes that in all cases wherein expert testimony is required the expert should be employed ancl paid by the court, and regarded as a court officer. In this we heartily agree with him.