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his subject under the following heads : I. Grounds of Responsibility; II. Deceit and Contract; III. The Limitations of Responsibility; IV. The Church and the Civil Law; V. Trespass to Person and Prop erty; VI. Road and Railway Accidents; VII. Col lisions at Sea; VIII. Fraud: IX. Injuries to Land; X. Defamation; XI. Abuse of Legal Process; XII. Infringement of Copyright, Patents, and Trade marks; XIII. Master and Servant; XIV. The Measure of Damages. The work bears the stamp of great industry and remarkable learning in do mestic and foreign jurisprudence on the part of the author. Modern Jury Trials and Advocates. The Art of a Hundred Lawyers. A New Fourth Edi tion. By J. W. Donovan. Published by Banks & Brothers, New York. $4.50. This work of seven hundred pages is made up of forty condensed trials, each with the advocates graphically described, giving their art, skill, and elo quence. The cases are selected with extreme care from the most noted trials of twenty-five years. They cover the whole range of jury practice and romance of law. About one hundred advocates like Beach, Butler, Matthews, Storrs, Porter, Graham, Dexter, Chipman, Carpenter, Curtis, Voorhees, Mar shall, Crittenden, Brown, Davis, Gordon, Stanton,

Brady, Lothrop, Tremain, etc., are described, and samples of their eloquence, with others for ages back reviewed. A large space is given to rules of practice, art of selecting juries and winning cases. Thirty-four pages of eloquent closing periods con clude the volume. Judge Matthews says : " It is ex cellently made, highly interesting and permanently valuable." " The most interesting book lately writ ten." — Post and Tribune. "That excellent work, Modern Jury Trials." — Detroit Free Press. " There is no work with near this extent of eloquence." — Ann Arbor Courier. "Well edited and exceedingly valuable." — Indianapolis News. " The rapid sale and strong recommend of many able lawyers show a demand for it." — Milwaukee Sentinel. Tact in Court. By J. W. Donovan, 1889. Williamson Law Book Co., Rochester. Law Sheep. $1.00. A work of condensed art, wit, and eloquence, illus trated; with Trial Rules, Sketches, and rare inci dents. An exceedingly taking work; has reached fourth edition. Last edition greatly enlarged. Il lustrated with portraits of Fuller, Blackburn, Curtis, etc. This book has received the highest praise from the very best judges of Trial Practice. AttorneyGeneral Taggart says : " The best book on Trial Practice I ever read."

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