New South Wales. Statistician's office. Official year book of New South Wales. [Sydney] Gullick, govt. printer, 1906-15.* v. 1-10. illus., plates, fold. maps. 25cm 319.94

South Australia. Commissioner of crown lands and immigration. Official year book of South Australia, 1912-14. Adelaide, 1912-14.* v. 1-3. 24cm. 319.94

An earlier publication has title: The year book of South Australia.

Victorian year book, comp. by the government statist, 1880-1914. Melbourne, 1880-1914.* v. 1-34. 22cm 3 9.94

book, N. Y. Fairbanks, 1908-14. v. 1-2. maps, tables, diagrs. 25cm 318.1 Bulgaria

Bulgaria. Direction générale de la statistique. Annuaire statistique du Royaume de Bulgarie, 1909-11. Sophia, 1910-14.* v. 1-3. 27cm. 314.97

Canada

Canada. Census and statistics office. Canada year book, 1905-14. 2d series. Ottawa, 1906-15.* v. 1-10. 22cm. $1 per vol. 317.1atest

Most useful of the statistical Canadian annuals. Canadian almanac and miscellaneous directory. Toronto, Copp. Clarke, 18481916.* v. 1-69. maps. 23cm. $1 per vol. 317.1

Unofficial.

Japan year book, 1906-15. Tokyo, Japan yr. bk. off. [1906-15).* v. 1-10. 19cm. 315.2 $2 per vol.

Contains a section "Who's who in Japan." Mexico

Mexican year book, 1908-14. Comprising historical, statistical & fiscal information. Comp. from official and other records. Issued under the auspices of the Department of finance. Lond., McCorquodale, N. Y. Brentano (1908-14.* v. 1-7. front., plates, fold. maps. 22cm. 21s. $5. per vol. 317.2 Netherlands

Jaarcijfers voor het koningrijk der Nederlanden. Annuaire statistique des PaysBas, 1881-1913. s' Gravenhage (18821914.* 26cm. 1.25 fl. per vol. 314.92

Few general libraries can buy many law reference books, as such books are very expensive and are often so technical in character that they can be used intelligently only by lawyers or law students. State and legislative research libraries and some university libraries will naturally include special law collections but most general libraries should buy only such law books as are needed for the less technical legal topics, referring all other questions to the nearest law library. A few law reference books must however be included in the reference collection of any general library of fair size as they are needed not only for the more general law questions but also for many questions in the field of history and the various social sciences. The minimum equipment for such reference work should include: (1) a good law dictionary; (2) a set of the United States statutes either (a) the "Revised statutes" with supplements, and subsequent volumes of the "Statutes at large" and "Pamphlet laws," or (b) the "Compiled statutes, or (c) "Federal Statutes Annotated"; (3) the latest revision or compilation of the laws of the home state, with subsequent session laws; (4) the charter and ordinances of the home city; (5) the latest compilation of the United States "Treaties in force," and Moore's Digest of international law.

To this minimum the library would add, as public demand and library funds justified, one of the large law encyclopedias and, if the library contains many legal periodicals, the indexes of legal periodicals described on p. 12-13.

DICTIONARIES

Black, Henry Campbell. Law dictionary. 2d. ed. St. Paul, West pub. co. 1910. 1314 p. $6. 340

First ed. 1891. This new edition incorporates many new terms and additional citations to cases in which the terms or phrases have been judicially defined and extends the department of medical jurisprudence and that of legal maxims. A good one volume law dictionary for a general library.

Bouvier, John. Bouvier's law dictionary and concise encyclopedia, 3d revision (being the 8th ed.) by Francis Rawle. Kansas City, Mo., Vernon law book co.; St. Paul, Minn., West pub. co. 1914. 3 v. 26cm. $19.50. 340

The standard American law dictionary.

Stimson, Frederick Jesup. Concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in law books. Rev. ed. by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees. Bost. Little, 1911. 346 p. 23cm. $3. 340

Wharton, John Jane Smith. Wharton's Law-lexicon; forming an epitome of the law of England as existing in statute law and case law, and containing explanations of technical terms and phrases both ancient, modern and commercial with selected titles from the civil, Scots, and Indian law. 12th ed., by E. A. Wurtzburg. Lond. Stevens, Bost. Boston bk co., 1916. 919 p. 26cm. 34s. 340

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Corpus juris; being a complete and systematic statement of the whole body of the law as embodied in and developed by all reported decisions; ed. by William LA Mack . . and William Benjamin Hale. N. Y. Amer. law book co. 1914-16. v. 1-9. 340 26em. $7.50 per vol. -Annotations to Corpus juris. C. J. ed. by De Witt C. Blashfield under the supervision of William Mack. N. Y. Amer. law book co. 1917. 3094 p. 26cm. 340.03

Corpus juris is a new edition of the Cyclopedia of law and procedure noted below and when finished will supersede the latter.

Contents: v. 1-9, A-Carried.

Cyclopedia of law and procedure. N. Y. Amer. law book co. 1901-12. 40 v. 261⁄2 cm. 340 Editors: v. 1-10, W. Mack and H. P. Nash.-v. 11-40, W. Mack, editor-in-chief.

-Index and concordance for use in connection with the Cyclopedia of law and procedure; comp. under the supervision of Joseph Walker Magrath. N. Y. Amer. law book CO. 1913. 2510 p. 261⁄2 cm. $7.50.

Encyclopædia of the laws of England with forms and precedents by the most eminent legal authorities. 2d ed., rev. and enl. With a general introduction by Sir F. Pollock. Lond. Sweet, 1906-13. 16v. 25cm. 21s. per vol. 340

Editors: A. W. Renton and M. A. Robertson. "Vol. xv, table of cases, index to forms and precedents, addenda and corrigenda, along with a complete index of matters contained in the entire work, by William Bowstead."

"Vol. xvi, supplementary volume, containing amendments and additions to the end of 1913."

Judicial and statutory definitions of words and phrases, collected, ed., and comp. by members of the editorial staff of the National reporter system: St. Paul, West publ. co. 1904-05. 8 v. 26cm. $48. 340

Always cited as Words and phrases.

- 2d series, collected, ed., and comp. by the editorial staff of the National reporter 1914. system. St. Paul, West publ. co. 4 v. 261⁄2 cm. $6. per vol. 340

Contains the judicial interpretation and construction of words and phrases found in the reported decisions of the American appellate courts since the original compilation down to January 1, 1913." Preface.

McKinney, William Mark. Ruling case law as developed and established by the decisions and annotations contained in Lawyers reports annotated, American decisions, American reports, American state reports, American and English annotated cases, American annotated cases, English ruling cases, British ruling cases, United States Supreme court reports, and other series of selected cases; ed. by William M. McKinney and Burdett A. Rich. North

v. 1-7, A-Z; v. 8-10, U. S. Constitution; general index.

A new ed. revised to 1916 has been announced and the first volume, A-Bigamy, was published in 1916, $7.50. This will supersede the edition listed above and also the following supplements.

Supplements, 1909, 1912, 1914. Northport, N. Y. Thompson, 1909-14. 4 v. 26cm.

Contents: 1909, Congress 59-60, Congress 61, special session; 1912, Congress 61, sess. 2-3, Congress 62, to Jan. 1, 1912; Congress 62, sess. 2-3, sess. 1-2, to Jan. 1, 1914.

U. S. Laws, statutes. Revised statutes of the United States, passed at the first session of the Forty-third Congress, 187374; embracing the statutes of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, in force Dec. 1, 1873. 2d ed. Wash. Govt. print off. 1878. 1394 p. 30cm $2.90. 345 -Supplement, v. 1-2, 1874-1901. Wash.

"In 1867 a commission was appointed to revise the laws, by discarding all of merely private interest and all which had become obsolete, and arranging the general and permanent laws under headings by which related subjects were brought together. The Commission reported a revision which was accepted and published, and is known as the Revised statutes of 1875. Soon after its publication it was discovered that the revisers had taken liberties with the text. In consequence, Congress appointed a new Commis sion to revise the work by striking out the substituted words of the first commission and restoring the original text. When this work was completed it was published as Revised statutes, 2d edition, 1878. This remains the standard. Supplementary revisions were made and published in 1891 and 1901." Supt. of documents. Price list no. 10.

U. S. Laws, statutes. The statutes at large of the United States, concurrent resolutions, recent treaties, conventions and Bost. executive proclamations. Little, Brown, 1845-1873; Wash. Govt. print. off., 1875-1915. v. 1-38. 25-29cm. 345

Price per vol. varies. See Price list no. 10, issued by Superintendent of documents.

Each volume contains the acts and joint resolutions, public and private, permanent and temporary, and the concurrent resolutions, treaties, conventions, and presidential proclamations published during the two-years term of one Congress. Arrangement is chronological by the date of the passage of the act under the divisions, Public acts, Private acts, Treatics, etc.

Each volume of the Statutes at large covers the laws of one Congress, i. e., two years. The "session" or "pamphlet" laws are preliminary compilations, each volume covering one session of a Congress, to be used until superseded by a new volume of the Statutes. For description see Price list No. 10. A complete set of laws covering no duplicated material would include the Revised statutes, the two Supplements, and Statutes at large, v. 32 to 38. Set, $48.50.

Soule, Charles Carroll. Legal abbreviations; being citations of American, English, colonial and foreign law text-books and reports, by Charles C. Soule (reprinted from "The lawyer's manual" 1883) with additions to date by W. T. Rogers. Lond. Allen, 1911. 149 p. 21cm. 347

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hicks, Frederick Charles. Aids to the study and use of law books; a selected list, classified and annotated, of publications relating to law literature, law study and legal ethics. N. Y. Baker, Voorhis, 1913. 129 p. 19cm. $1. 016.34

Not a formal bibliography of law, but a selected list of the aids most helpful to all users of law