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E v ery Man his Own Lawyer. By a Barrister. (Lockwood.) — On the

ntside of this volume is the attractive announcement, "No more wyers' bills !" The book which is to produce this marvellous result is dictionary of legal facts, well put together and fairly complete. Of coarse it does not contain everything, or even everything that one might Indy expect to find in it. For instance, the Salmon Fisheries' Act is given t considerable length, but nothing is said about a subject which to ninety- nine anglers out of a hundred is far more important, what general right of fishing the public possesses. Does it extend to all parts of navigable rivers, or to canals ? May a man throw a casting-net from a towing- path ? We can easily believe, however, that the book is a very useful one. Certainly the public think so, for it has reached a sixth edition. But possibly it may be more useful, after all, to the lawyers than to them.