Acknowledgment is made to James M. Kerr, Esq., (who will be recognized as a contributor to the LAW TIMES), for assistance in preparing a large part of the work; without whose assistance the author says, it would hardly have been possible to prepare the book with that exhaustive ness, completeness and accuracy by which it is characterized.

LAWYER'S REPORTS, ANNOTATED. BOOK III. ALL CURRENT CASES OF GENERAL VALUE AND IMPORTANCE DECIDED IN THE UNITED STATES, STATE AND TERRITORIAL COURTS; WITH FULL ANNOTATION, BY ROBERT DESTY, Editor. EDMUND H. SMITH, Reporter. Burdet A. Rich, Editor in Chief of the United States and General Digests, and the several Reporters and Judges of each Court, Assistants in Selection. Rochester, N. Y. The Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Company. 1889.

We have heretofore had occasion to call attention to the value of these reports. This volume is improved in mechanical execution, while in other respects it is presumed to be not inferior to its predecessors.

In the "Current Comment and Legal Miscellany," published in Philadelphia, is a very good sketch and portrait of our lamented and distinguished fellow citizen, Leonard Swett; but one may look the article through in vain for any evidence that he ever lived in Chicago, a place not once mentioned.