The record-union., 1893-10-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS

From Little. Brown & Co., law book
sellers and publishers, Boston, we have
from their press in two volumes e vo.
1869 pp.) The Law of Extraordinary
Relief" by Thomas C. Spelling, author
of the Law of Private Corporations. :"
Inis work is by member of the San
Francisco bar, who has by his earlier
volumes before US, which bear all the
evidences of painstaking and consci-
entlous labor, are ably prepared. In the
treatment OF the subjects of injunction,
habeas corpus, mandamus, quo war
ranto, prohibition and certiorari, there is
an adequacy, fullness and care manifest
that will fully satisfy the lawyer. Per-
haps in nothing has Mr.. Spelling more
made his work testify to his ability as an
author than in concisely stating the rule
of law as derived from the decisions OF
courts based upon the fundamental
principles that gave birth to rights from
which spring the writS of extraordinary
relief In modern times resort to these
modes of relief has greatly increased, be-
cause of the vastness of business
concern in this day and the cross
ing in so many directions of so
many human activities. Conditions
have arisen unknown to the commerce
and the rights of men in earlier times,
and as result, while principles have not
changed, notifications in application
have been necessary, and these have
given us long lines of decisions by
several scores of courts of last resort in
which all extraordinary remedies, legal
and equitable, have been Thoroughly dis
cussed, but not without much conflict
and reversal. Handling all this mass of
judicial Interpretation and comparing
case with case, and each with the funda-
mentals of the science of law, has been
Mr.. Spellings task, and then TO deduce
from his labor the accepted rule OF the
hour. Mr.. Spelling's work will take
place among the standards of the day,
not only as complete presentation and
digest of cases, with analysis, but as a
treatise of remedies of extraordinary
character, original in the method OF
handling, lucid in style, clear and incon-
trOvertible in argument and emphatic IN
conclusion.
E. E. Frisbie, the general agent for the
work, is in Sacramento presenting the
latest book by Josiah Aliens wife,
Samantha at the Worlds Fair" 1t is
sold by subscription only, is illustrated
by over one hundred characteristic en-
cravings by c. De Grimm, and contains
nearly 600 pages. The Funk Wagnalls
Company, New York, is the publisher,
and the prices range from 81 so to 81.
Among the humorous writers of the day
there is not one clearer in thought or
more helpful by the art than Josiah AL
lens Wife," The exquisite drollery of
her humor, the originality and sponta-
neity of her w.t. the art she possesses in
so high degree of presenting the ridicu
Ious side of life for purpose that is
strong in moral tone and helpful COM
mon sense, make Miss Holley's writings
notable and widely popular. She has a
vivid Imagination, cheerful wit, unspar-
ing sarcasm, merciful humor and clean,
wholesome purpose in every page she
gives to the press. The graphic power
of description this humorist possesses is
only equaled by her shrewd insight into
human nature and the motives which
prompt it to activity.