New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS
spEo1AI. ACTIONS IN NEwYoRK COURTS

8pECIAE ACIIUNS In NEW-iNnN OsS~--F
rHK PRACTICE IN SPECIAL. ACTIONS IL ~ v IME
COURTS OF RECORD OF THE s S.o m of y so3,
yORK BY J. Newton Hero. sVo, PIP A. w.
Albany; Matthew Bender ~.
mr. Fisro rendered . considerable service % me
Ieeai profession Of this stste when no WOE I've
ceent work ON especial Proeeedinss tno p,s' -.
medication a not so much snppemen. ~ y = .D
- 5000 :, the other There Is certain CLASS
40 .et,ors t which the ordinary roles CT pfaO0o w
~, .np,y This Includes partition, eiec'men', iose-
r,,.ura .nd Kindred actions respecting resi ess"s'
r~nIrvto divorce and other mairimohih A0eoa'
ar,t,ns n dissolve corpprstions; actions rssPcc"s
wills Is we'll by and against the pctsooa
scntatives of decedents: Judgment creditor ac'onN
and actions for penalties or forfeifpre. an n
suh,scss ana many more cognae ones are fuiy trcAse
~ NJ rterc Oh the admirable plsn folowca 10 ."o
former work Tho chapters on acuons anoe's
CORPORATIONS are of especial interest," anu Vaae, 20
eaues The New-York lawyer has previously poe,'
without any recent guide to the PROCEDURE ~ ee ~.
cases oxcept as nc may have been able 70 pioA ou'
"a, .,tsorit,es ana precedcuts from many Yeiumeh
mt nearly all the subjects treated have poem sur
,,dsd with difiouities In practice that have Per
haps consumed the ume OF the acuNo issyor ~
uprsyci 10 as great extent as ana iequon.v mYlO
than the stndy of the Law itself Oh .ns als'or naf
rs.u,r,d every sueh work, conseisn'ousg drn''
tht ,essens ard simpnes the machinery OF tbs law,
~ tbese works of Mr.. FieFo doubtless DO, Is not
only relief and aid 70 the legal profession pu'
Indirectly q benefit to the community:
wv ,.v. ,r,m q. p Putnams Sons the second
oY,,r,e Of Scriptures Hebrew and Christian cdlteu
nv mr. T. T. Bartlett and DR.. John p. Peters. Tbs
volume is occupied with Hebrew literature, the nrs'
nart containing tho history OF tho jews from tho
dsst,uetion of Jerusalem to and through the time
of Ezra: the second part dealing with Hebrew iogis
iation the third with Hebrew tales the fourth Win
Hebrew prophecy; the fifth with Hebrew poetry :
and the sixth with Hebrew WISDOM Inc
yalue of the selections arranged and ahnotatou
AZ they are as an aid to Biblical study, Is consider
able.
Thrtseu lectures delivered by DR.. Howard Crosby
durtnr the year 1883 in the Fourth Avenue Presoy-
TARTAN Church have been collected and pubisheo py
Funk Wagnalis under the title The Bible View OF
fbe Jewish Church, The main purpose OF tho author
Is 10 demonstrate the essential unity Of the old and
the modern churches, and the harmony between the
Old Testament and the Gospels.
All the sons Of Caledonia should be interested In
Mr. John d. Ross's Scottish Poets in America, with
biographical and Critical Notices. published by Pagan
q Ross large number Of selections are given,
which prove that the genius of Scottish poetry has
survived migration. no less than twenty-five Scotch
American poets noticed and their work exemplhed
and with few exceptions tho exhibit made by Mr. Ross
Is both ereditablo and encouraging
Tho last volumes issued in the Canterbury Poets
kertos, CThomas whttaken arc Tho Poetcal Works
of George Crabbe (selected with predatory notice.
biographical and critical, by Edward Lanpiouch," and
the Paradise Regained and Minor Poems of Milton.
edited by DIT. John Bradshaw. The selections from
Crzbbe are well adapted exhibit that poets realistic
power and the halfcynical melancholy which gave so
much Of his verse pessimistic favor.