REVIEWS.

THE RULES OF PLEADING, Under the

New York Code and the Codes of other States. By Edwin Baylies, LL. D., of the New York Bar. Published by Williamson Law Book Company,

Price $6.00

Rochester,

New York.

There is an eternal fitness' in a work on Pleading and Practice written by an expert pleader who has acquired his knowledge under the New York Codes.

The Code of that state is the mother of all practice in the United States. The first Code was established in 1848, and since has passed through all the tests that a vigilant, scrutinizing and learned profession can bestow on a vital subject. The variety of busines and the magnitude of the questions that have arisen in the great commercial state of New York has put to the test every principle of Pleading and Practice. More than half of a century of practice has established settled precedents. Professor Baylies has availed himself of all material in his rich field and given the Profession a true and unerring guide; as this second edition of this excellent work is the crystalization of judicial authority combined with experience and close observation of the modus operandi of the courts. His treatment of the Rules of Pleading is condensed, yet clear and ample enough for all practical purposes and easily comprehended. He has within the compass of 27 chapters included all the essentials of the subject making one handy volume of 780

pages. Additional to the essential discussion of the matter of the complaint and answer together with the collatteral pleadings that generally arise he has devoted a good portion of the book to Forms that have stood the test in actual practice through the courts, making the book clear and sound in the information imparted to the student as well as the active practitioner. Being a book for use in every day practice it devotes one chapter also to pleadings before Justices of the Peace. This work of Mr. Baylies is not only well written and arranged, but the latest on so important a subject that it should find a place in every lawyers library.

FOIBLES OF THE BAR.

FRAILTIES OF THE JURY.

By Henry S. Wilcox, of the Chicago Bar.
Published by
Legal Literature Company,

Chicago, Ill.

The two book titles above, and Foibles of the Bench which we reviewed in this Journal a short time since form a trinity of special and peculiar law books recently published by the Legal Literature Company. These books are special for the interesting manner in which they have been written; and peculiar by reason of the subtile evils which he points out that lurk in the obscure corners of legal practice, but unobserved by the listless and careless. Every lawyer has heard the expression of learning those things that the books don't teach." Yes, there have been many things that the books don't teach, and they had to be learned by actual experence; but the reason was that our ponderous law books were not wrtten to teach them or failed in that flexibility of adaptation for teaching the details of the art of law practice and the avoidance of the snags to be encountered

by the members of the legal profession in the discharge of the duties of the calling. Foibles of the Bar, points out the weak points in the lawyer himself-it indicates and exemplifies that power "Wad God gie us to see ourselves as others see us." This little volume carefully studied will greatly increase the lawyers success in practice and secure him greater measure of respect from his clients as well as fellow members of the bar.

"The Frailties of the jury," contains many good ideas, and thoughts that all good lawyers aught to know. Three dollars will secure these volumes: Foibles of the Bench, Foibles of Bar and Frailties of Jury. No better investment can be made for a lawyer's summer reading.

Perhaps all the lawyers in the territory have learned by this time of the death of the Rev. J. W. Foose the librarian of the Territory. While Mr. Foose was not a lawyer, his long acquaintance with every member of the Bar, and his generous, courteous and accommodating disposition had so greatly endeared him to the profession that the news of his unexpected death has been as regretfully and painfully received as if he had been one of their number.

Mr. Foose was born in Ohio, in 1838, and died May 7th, 1907, after a short illness. He was a minister of the gospel but took part in political and patriotic matters. In 1902 was appointed Territorial librarian a position he most acceptably filled until his death. He had so lived that when final summons came, in the language of the poet: "He wrapped the drapery of his couch about him and lay down to pleasant dreams."

May the holy angels his requiem sweetly sing, While we strew his mound with the flowers of Spring; And his soul receive on high

The wreaths that never die,

In that land of pure delight

Where God's smile excludes the night.

EDITORIALS.

Injudicious Reading.

Among the current articles of the day none has so forcibly chorded with our views as one lately read from the pen of the accomplished and charming writer, Miss Agnes Repplier, of Philadelphia. Speaking of reading without a purpose-reading indiscriminately to kill time or the supposed pleasure of the moment, she said: "The habit of rapid and indiscriminate reading does not stimulate mental growth; the quick replacing of one book by another lessens the value of all. I have seen a girl, too young to lose the fresh, keen, priceless memory of youth, standing before a long row of battered novels, and striving to recollect which of them she had or had not read."

The first settlement in Oklahoma was made on the 22d day of April, 1889. On May 2d, 1890, a territorial Government was established by Congress. All that part of the Indian country west of the so called Five Civilized Tribes was included within the boundaries of the new Territory, and Oklahoma commenced its remarkable career as a separate political entity among the geographical subdivisions of the United States. In the same organic act, the country of the Five Tribes, embracing an area nearly as large as as the State of Indiana, and larger than any one of nine states now in the Union, was designated as the Indian Territory, but without the establishment of a Territorial government.

The Territory of Oklahoma proper, apart from the Indian Territory, contains 30,030 square miles, or about 24.979,200 acres, corresponding in area to the State of Ohio. In 1890, one year after the first settlement, the population by the Federal census was only 61,834. In 1900 the Federal enumeration was 398.331.

The Supreme Court of Oklahoma will meet in regular session on June 4th, 1907.

Remy & Heggem is the name of a new law firm in Guthrie Oklahoma. Mr. Remy is a cultured gentleman of experience as a lawyer and trained in the code state of Indiana. He has seen a great deal of law practice and been connected as counsel with many noted cases. Mr. Heggem is a graduate of the Cornell University School, and possessed of the qualities of a good lawyer, as well as all the elements of a first class gentleman. The firm bids fair to become one of the leading in the new State.

The Tri-State Law Assosiation will meet in Memphis Tenn., on June 4, 5 and 6, 1907. This association represents the lawyers of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Hon. Charles J. West, of Enid, who greatly distinguished himself during the past year in Interstate Commerce cases, has entered the race for Attorney-General of Oklahoma.

Women Judges in Pennsylvania- A sensation was created in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on March 18 when Representative Creasy, of Columbia, offered a bill providing that women learned in the law are and shall be eligible to the office of judge in all courts of record in this commonwealth." The measure had not become a law at this writing.

The partnership formerly exesting as the firm Erixon Remy and Heggem has been dissolved; Mr. Erixon remaining in the old office. He is devoting much of his time and study to corporation law with the view of making it a specialty. Mr. Erixon has been retained as counsel by a number of companies recently organized.