is in itself a good guide, and sometimes in practical life the only guide one has. The plan of the book is as follows: After a short introduction upon the relations of National and State law, and of constitutional, statute, and common law, it is divided into two parts. Part I. treats of principles applicable to all kinds of business, in three divisions treating respectively of Contracts, Agency and Partnership, with a fourth division embracing the subject of Corporations and a few others general in their nature. Part II. takes up in order the most prominent kinds of business transactions, paying chief attention to the subjects, Sale of Goods, and Commercial Paper, and is to a large extent an application of the principles contained in the preceding part. A few chapters on real estate are added, as likely to be useful, though the subject is not strictly within the title of the book. The chief aim has been throughout to make it a book practically useful, and one easily taught, understood, and remembered. As subserving those purposes attention may be called to the following features among others: the use of schemes in graded type, which summarizing a subject impress it upon the mind through the eye; the summaries of leading rules at different points; a table of definitions; the forms of business papers most frequently met with; and the frequent use of illustrations and cross-references. It is submitted with the hope that it may not be found unsuited to its design. NEW YORK, 1882. SALTER S. CLARK. 29 32 34 51 |