The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States.
By Daniel Moreau Barringer and John Stokes Adams. (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston.)—This is a very comprehensive treatise on a vast subject by two members of the Philadelphia Bar. The aim of the book is to give a complete and accurate statement of the law, so stated and arranged as to furnish what the authors' experience has taught them to be the requirements of the active practitioner. " The authors " (according to their preface) " have attempted to make this work as comprehensive as possible, and have not con- fined themselves to the law which is applicable only to any particular portion of the country or to mines of any particular kind. The other American books with which they are familiar are confined to the statutory systems under which title to mines is acquired and mining is conducted upon those lands which are, or have been, a part of the public domain. The present work aims to cover this field fully, and also to deal with equal com- pleteness with the questions of title to mineral lands, mines, and minerals in those States in which the common law on the subject of real estate ownership applies." The book, which contains a very useful geological preface, is well arranged, and not, what so many legal text-books are, a mere index to the reported cases.
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