LITERARY RECORD.
Law and Equity Reporter.—Messrs. Halsted and Voorhies, Law Booksellers, of this city, have issued proposals for publishing, by subscription, a periodical now in course of successful publication in London, entitled The Jurist. It will be issued from the American press under the title of 'The Jurist, or Monthly Law and Equity Reporter.' The work has been in operation for the past two years, and its importance and usefulness are evident from the extensive patronage it continues to receive. The main object of the Jurist is to furnish the profession with a complete series of all the decisions in the several Courts of Common Law and Equity, at a much earlier day than through the medium of the regular Reports, viz: The cases decided in the House of Lords, Privy Council, Lord Chancellor's Court, Rolls Court, Vice Chancellor's Court, Exchequer in Equity, Court of Queen's Bench, Queen's Bench Bail Court, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Exchequer, Court of Review, etc., etc, all fully and accurately reported by eminent barristers, engaged expressly to prepare the decisions for this work. Through the medium of the Jurist, the members of the profession will be put in possession of all the decisions of the several Courts of Common Law and Equity, from eighteen months to two years earlier than they appear in the regular Reports. As the cost of this publication is trifling in comparison with the great expense of the original Reports, the experiment will doubtless meet with the support it merits. In addition to the Reports of Cases, the Public General Statutes, affecting the law either in principle or administration, with notes, will appear long prior to the publication of the usual collection of Statutes. Original articles will also appear from time to time, containing information on Conveyancing, Pleading, Practice, and Evidence, as well as occasional discussions on legal subjects of doubt and difficulty. As a useful appendage, an Annual Digest will be added, containing all the cases reported during the year, together with a table of cases, index to the whole work, etc. As soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained, the work will be put to press, commencing with the decisions since the first of January, 1839, and published regularly once a month; each number will contain from seventy-five to one hundred pages octavo, and put up in such a manner as to be sent by mail to any part of the United States and Canada. The terms are seven dollars per annum, in advance.
'The Lady's Book,' a monthly publication, issued in Philadelphia, under the editorial supervision of Mr. Louis A. Godey and Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, is one of the best as well as cheapest works of the kind in the country. We learn from the 'New-York Mirror' that it has a circulation of more than fourteen thousand copies, a number considerably more than double that of any similar periodical for females in the United States. The gentleman editor, who is also the publisher, has the merit of writing good English; and the talents of Mrs. Hale, who is aided by some of the best male and female pens in the Union, need no encomium or blazon. The work is beautifully printed, and frequently embellished with fine engravings, including new prints of the fashions, in their season, elaborately colored, and all engraved expressly for the work. Mr. Israel Post, in the Bowery, is the agent for the 'Lady's Book' in this city.
'The Christian Offering' is an annual for churchmen, edited by the Rev. John W. Brown, A. M., a work 'devoted to the cause of Christ and the Church, and one of the leading objects of which is, to hold up the claims of Christian education.' It is issued, for this year only, without the usual accompaniment of engravings to the letter-press. Many of the contributions are of a high order of merit, and are derived from well-known sources. We observe, in a hurried glance through the volume, articles by Rufus Dawes, Mrs. Sigourney, Rev. Calvin Cotton, Mrs. Embury, and the Editor, with several others, of more or less note. The volume is very neatly executed.
