1iterarp Notires.
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A TREATISE on The LAW OF SLASpER AND LIBEL, anu


incidentally of Malicious Prosecution Sescit voh


missa reyerti. By Thomas staskie Esq OF Lincoln ;


Inn Barris;e Law. Fronl the second English tci-


rion OF 1880 with ard references 70 American


cases and to English decisions SINCE is4o By John l.


Wendell, Counselor al Law. Ia two Volumes Albany


C. Van Benthuysen x Co. !si3.


We have received copy of the work OF which
we have here given the title, and which, as the
times 90, promises to be a work of much value
to the editorial profession. 1t behoves us VINO
have the management of newspapers to look care
fully to our steps. for we walk among snarcs and
pitfalls, and if we make rash movement to the
right or the left, we are entrapped IN the meshes
of the law of libel.


Starkie's work is much esteemed by the protes-
sion. The American editor has added the Amerl-
can decisions and the later decisions of English
courts We copy the following notice OF the work
from the Albany Argus. Eve. Post.


s:The second edition of Mr. Starkie's treatise
s a great improvement on the first. and IN itself
cannot fail to be acceptable to the prolesslon.-
To ii are added the notes of the editor, IN winch
are collected the American cases, and English
decisions since the publication of the second edl-
ton; and an introduction pointing out various
discrepancies in the lan1 Of libel as held In Eng
land and as it prevails here; particularly on the
subject of pririieged Communications; the force
and effect of the plea of the general issue IN the
action of slander as to the evidence admissible
under it on the trial of the cause; the proper sub
lcc; matter Of special plea, and the danger OF
attempting to plead specially facts which IN their
nature are not, and cannot be the subject of such
plea the evidence admissible in mitigation Of
damagcs, whether the general issue be or be not
accompanied by plea or notice of justification
and the right OF jury in all prosecutions for al
legged libels, notwithstanding any direction given
by the court to determine both the law and the
fact in ciril as well as in criminal cases. The
introduction also contains review of the libel
cases of Turrill and galloway, and of several OF
the cases for hbels prosecuted by J. Fenmore
Cooper.