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Terrors of the Law. By Francis Watt. New York: is not anywhere disputed, and the marvelous skill

John Lane and Bodley Head.

This little book of 130 pages consists of critical and biographical studies, or, as the author prefers to call them, "Portraits" of three eminent English lawyers, Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, or the "bloody Jeffreys," as he was popularly known; Sir George Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh, known as "the bluidy advocate Mackenzie," and Robert Macqueen, "the Weir of Hermiston" of Stevenson's unfinished romance. The point of view is human and literary, rather than legal; the author has sought to estimate the influence of these famous men on their times. That he has succeeded admirably in his purpose we believe will be the verdict of everyone who reads these scholarly and delightful essays.

The Barrister. Compiled by Charles Frederick Stansburg. New York: The Mab Press, 1902. This little book consists of anecdotes of the late Tom Nolan, of the New York bar, who for years kept the bench and bar of the metropolis laughing over his bon mots. The author says of him: "In the amusing awkwardness of his mind and body and the genuine devoutness of his spirit there was that to remind us of some of the characteristics of old Dr. Samuel Johnson." Mr. Stansburg modestly expresses regret that the barrister had no Boswell. This book, which will probably be the nearest approach to a biography, consists of a somewhat hasty compilation of the stories about Nolan, with some facts relating to his career. It will be found instructive, as well as amusing.

he displayed in adapting his theories and systems to actual conditions in France are equally well known; but the other side of his meteoric career, that of gambler, fop, spendthrift, prisoner under sentence of death, exile, wanderer, arbiter of the destiny of nations, dictator to the proudest aristocracy in Europe, these are not so familiar to the general public. Law's escape to this country and his romantic adventures in the region of the Great Lakes are admirably described. The story is written in most virile fashion and keeps the interest enchained from the first chapter. From a literary standpoint "one of the best books of the year thus far" is the verdict of competent critics. It gives Mr. Hough a higher place than ever before in the gallery of American fiction writers.

In the Country God Forgot. By Frances Charles.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1902.

This book, written by a young California writer, is not easy to classify. It is written in a peculiar style, and is by no means perfect in construction, for even the experienced reader of fiction is often obliged to turn back the pages to get and keep the thread of the story. The scene is laid in the barren, desolate plains of Arizona. The loneliness and aridness of the life there is admirably described. The hate of the rich old rancher for his only son is the theme, but there are infinite variations. Though the theme is tragic, there is sunshine and humor in the book, and a simplicity which makes the story an unusual and engrossing one. For a first effort, which we are told this one is, it may be classed as far above the ordinary. It makes a strong and successful appeal to human sympathy, and the writer shows herself unmistakably a close student of human nature. "In the Country God Forgot" is a work of performance, as well as promise.

The Rustler. By Frances McElrath. New York:
Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1902.

To the End of the Trail. By Frank Lewis Nason. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902. This is another successful story of the great West by a hitherto unknown author. That Mr. Nason is a virile writer is apparent before one has read a page of his story. Albeit, there is a trifle too much blasphemy to suit the average reader. The action of the story passes in a mining camp in Colorado, and the principal characters are Herbert Ingalls, a sheep herder, and a pretty able sort of tramp whom he engages as herder. Ingalls gets the "mining fever and is thoroughly fleeced by a gang of cutthroats, buying worthless property, gambling, mort-possibilities for good had they not been destroyed gaging his land, and losing his wife, all through his insatiable desire for gold. Some of the minor characters give the story a grim humor, particularly the wise old German who speaks in parables. The story is well constructed, thoroughly entertaining and written with a rare vigor and grasp.

The Mississippi Bubble. By Emerson Hough.

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1902. We regard this novel as far and away the best piece of literary work that has yet come from Mr. Hough's busy pen. In it he has made skilful use of the remarkable career of John Law, of Lauriston, a career which, in truth, is stranger than any fiction. That Law was a financial genius of the first order

Here we have still another stirring story of the great West, a novel founded on the "Rustler war" in Wyoming of a few years ago. Jim, the hero, is a "cattle puncher" in whom there were great

by the coquetry of a vain woman, Hazel Clifford,
a cultivated Easterner, who, as
a guest of the
ranch owner, crossed Jim's path. She deliberately
compels him to fall in love with her, and then as
deliberately flouts him, whereupon he goes to the
bad very promptly, and begins a downward career
as a "rustler," i. c., a brander of other people's
cattle on his own account.
The story is well
developed, particularly the latter portion in which
Hazel undergoes a change of character due to
remorse and becomes a thoroughly regenerating
influence in the camp. There are in the story deft
touches of pathos, genuine humor and rugged real-
ism. It will be found entertaining, uplifting and
full of human interest throughout.

Upland Game Birds. By Edwin Sandys and Others. American Sportsman's Library. Edited by Caspar Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1902.

To the true sportsman this excellent work will prove a rare delight. The authors have written from knowledge and experience of the peculiarities, habits and proper methods of hunting the partridge, grouse, ptarmigan and turkey families, and have added valuable and interesting chapters on the woodcock, the plover, foreign game, the cranes and the mourning dove. T. S. Van Dyke contributes an excellent chapter on The Quail and the Grouse of the Pacific Coast." The book is beautifully illustrated by L. A. Fuertes, A. B. Frost, J. O. Nugent and C. L. Bull. It ought to be in the library of every true American sportsman.

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Literary Notes.

"Red Saunders" (McClure, Phillips & Co.), went into a second edition the other day.

W. Clark Russell's new story, "The Mate of the Good Ship York," will be published immediately by Messrs. L. C. Page and Company.

Little, Brown & Co. will bring out a threevolume edition of Daniel Webster's hitherto uncollected speeches and writings in the fall.

"A Maid of Bar Harbor," by Henrietta G. Rowe, will be published by Little, Brown & Co. this month. It is a story of Mt. Desert before and after society took possession of the island.

The announcement of Cecil Rhodes' bequest for the education of American students at Oxford gives special point to John Corbin's book "An American at Oxford," which Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publish this spring.

Little, Brown & Co. will publish this month "In the Eagle's Talon," a romance of the Louisiana Purchase, by Sheppard Stevens, author of "The Sword of Justice," etc.; also A Girl of Virginia," a love story of the University of Virginia, by Lucy Meacham Thurston, author of "Mistress Brent."

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in all particulars, it is certain that they are the idealization of a consummate literary artist. Bret Harte, of all men, has seen the picturesque life of the early mining camps at their most picturesque stage and in his most receptive period, and has transferred his sensations to his readers with such shrewd humor, true pathos and delicate love for nature as have been given to no other man who dealt with this turbulent and transitory phase of American life. From "Two American Novelists," in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for June.

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President Roosevelt said in his Charleston speech: "Our civil war was incomparably the greatest of modern times, and its memories are now priceless heritages of honor alike to the North and to the South." This is the spirit in which Mr. William Sage has written "The Claybornes," a romance of the days of '61. His earlier book, though his first, won him immediate recognition and rapidly went through nine editions. His new novel will, doubtless, be even more popular.

Wood's "East Lynne," which the Macmillans are More than half a million copies of Mrs. Henry to reissue in sixpenny form, have been sold in England; the pirated circulation of the novel in America is unknown, although it has been enormous. One of the trans-Atlantic buccaneers had the nerve to change the name of every place or person in the book, to give it an American flavor. The book, which has proved one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century, is soon to be out of copyright.

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Miss Jane Addam's book on the work of university settlements, Democracy and Social Ethics," has promptly run into its second edition, as might have been expected. There is hardly a town of any importance containing districts of poor people and poverty-stricken foreigners which does not contain several groups of men and women battling with the difficulties which beset our more helpless classes. Among these workers and also among every person who has given any serious thought to social problems, Miss Addams' book has found prompt reading. She is easily the leader in this movement.

The newspaper reader who is confused by the clamor over the Philippine situation will find in the Review of Reviews for June an editorial summary of the controversy, written in a calm and judicial

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spirit, and emphasizing the vital points in dispute. While making no attempt to extenuate any abuses that may have developed in connection with our military administration of the islands, the editor's conclusion is that our army. has been "more humane and more scrupulous in its recognition of the rules of war than any other military forces under like conditions have ever been in the history of the world."

As full as usual of timely articles on men and affairs, McClure's for June will perhaps be chiefly welcomed for the first instalment of Booth Tarkington's new serial, "The Two Vanrevels." The author might appropriately have called the new novel The Two Gentlemen from Indiana," to

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emphasize the fact that in it he is returning to the field of his first great success. The Gentleman from Indiana," however, was a story of contemporary life, while The Two Vanrevels" harks back to the days of the Mexican War. The three opening chapters unfold most alluringly. The story seems to combine all the charms of The Gentleman from Indiana" and "Beaucaire," and to add a surer mastery of style of its own. Certainly no serial now running in any other magazine will surpass it in importance or popularity.

Legal Notes.

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The Hon. Clarence Hale, we are pleased to note, has been elevated to the United States district judgeship in Maine.

The chief justices of Ontario and Quebec are paid £1,400 and £1,200 respectively; the chief justices of New South Wales and Victoria £3,500 each. In the Canadian provinces the puisne judges are paid £1,400, in Victoria £3,000 annually.

One who loans money with the understanding that it shall be used in gambling, or who participates in the gambling transaction thus promoted by his act, is held, in Appleton v. Maxwell ([N. M.], 55

A contract by a porter placed in charge of a sleeping car, to waive his right of action for injuries caused by the negligence of any railroad company by which the car is hauled, or of its servants, is held, in Russell v. Pittsburg, C. C. & St. L. R. Co. ([Ind.], 55 L. R. A. 253), not to be void as against public policy.

A landowner who maintains on his property an unused building containing a water-wheel is held, in Ryan v. Towar ([Mich.], 55 L. R. A. 310), to be under no obligation to make the premises safe for children who have broken into the building, or for one who enters the building to rescue a child who has been caught and injured by the wheel.

An infirmary maintained by the proprietors of a medical college to induce attendance at the college for the instruction and clinical experience received in an infirmary is held, in Gray Street Infirmary v. Louisville ([Ky.], 55 L. R. A. 270), not to be exempt from taxation as a purely public charity, although a great deal of charitable work is done

in it.

Justice Miles Beach, of the Supreme Court of New York, died at his apartments in the WaldorfAstoria on May 19. His fatal illness was reported as diabetes. Justice Beach recently underwent an operation for the removal of a carbuncle. He was born in 1840 and studied law at Troy, of which city he later was mayor. After a term on the Common Pleas bench he was elected a Supreme Court judge.

Removing a tenant and his family from the leased premises under a judgment of forcible entry and detainer, on a cold day, at a time when his child is visibly broken out with measles, is held, in Bradshaw v. Frazier ([owa], 55 L. R. A. 258), to be an abuse of legal process, which will render the landlord liable for the injurious consequences to the child.

Joseph N. Barker, the oldest practicing lawyer of Chicago, died of Bright's disease Tuesday, May Mr. Barker was 13th, aged seventy-eight years.

L. R. A. 93), to have no right to recover in a suit born in Augusta, Ky., and had been a resident of for the money loaned or advanced.

Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, has appointed the following judges for the Superior Court: C. H. De Courey, of Lawrence; Robert O. Harris, of East Bridgewater; Lemuel Le Baron Holmes, of New Bedford, and William C. Wait, of Medford, the later succeeding the late Judge Hopkins.

A Code provision that the masculine includes all genders except where such construction would be absurd or unreasonable is held, in Re Maddox ([Md.], 55 L. R. A. 298), not to entitle a woman to admission to the bar under the provision that "any male citizen" having certain qualifications shall be so admitted.

Chicago since 1845. He began to practice law two years later and continued in his profession until two weeks ago, the firm being Barker, Church & Shepard.

The Supreme Court of the United States has just handed down its decision in the case of Detroit v. Detroit Citizens' St. Ry. Co. (22 Supreme Court Reporter, 411), in which it decides against the right of the city to reduce from five cents to three cents the fare to be charged by the street car companies of that city. The court halds that the ordinances granting the street railway franchises and the acts which govern the granting of these franchises do not give to the city the right to reduce the fare without the consent of the railroad company, al

though the law does say that the fare which any company may charge shall be established by agreement between such company and the city, and shall not be increased without the consent of the city authorities.

A person who suffered a fall by accident, resulting in concussion of the brain, which deranged and crazed his mind so that he could not intelligently give the notice and required information regarding the accident within the time stipulated in an accident insurance policy, is held, in Woodmen Acci. Asso. v. Byers ([Neb.], 55 L. R. A. 291), to be excused in law from compliance with the condition of the policy in that regard, during the time of the existence of the disability.

A motion by a servant employed to drag bales of cotton from a sidewalk into a warehouse, as if to throw the iron hook furnished him to aid in the work at some boys playing upon the bales, but who are in no way interfering with his work, to frighten them away, is held, in Guille v. Campbell ([Pa.), 55 L. R. A. 111), not fairly to tend to effectuate the discharge of his duty, so as to render his master liable for an injury to a bystander, caused by the sliping of the hook from his hand.

Recovery on a policy insuring against sickness, which limits liability to the perod when insured is continuously confined to his house and subject to the personal calls of a registered physician in good standing, is held, in Hoffman v. Michigan Home & H. Asso. ([Mich.] 54 L. R. A. 746), not to be defeated by the fact that the insured went out by direction of his physician for an occasional and necessary airing, if, by reason of his illness, he was continuously confined to the house for a large portion of the time.

In the case of Western Union Tel. Co. v. Waxelbaum (39 Southeastern Reporter, 443), it was sought to recover damages for a mistake made in a telegram sent to the appellee. The message was

estate exceeding $10,000, although the several inheritances were less than that sum, and does not authorize the taxation of any inheritance in an estate less than $10,000 in value. The fact that the application of the law depends upon the size of the estate of the testator, and not the inheritance, makes it possible to levy the tax upon some estates of a certain value, and impossible to levy it upon others. The court holds that this confers special privileges, in violation of the Constitutions of Wisconsin and the United States, guarantying to every person the equal protection of the laws.

An interesting case has recently been decided by the Circuit Court for the district of Minnesota, involving the liability of a railroad carrying mail for the government, for the loss of a valuable package. The case is entitled German State Bank v. Minneapolis, St. P. & S. Ste. M. Ry. Co. (113 Federal Reporter, 414), and it is alleged that the mailing of a valuable package to the complainant, and its carriage by the railroad company to its station, where the mail sack was delivered to the company's agent whose duty it was to safely care for the mail sack during the night, the leaving of the station by the agent, and the robbing of the sack during his absence, constituted such lack of ordinary care on the part of the railroad as to make it liable for the loss. The package was registered, and contained the sum of $3,000. Judge Lochren holds that the carrying of mail is entirely under government control, and that the railroad company owed no duty except to the government; that it has no knowledge of the contents of mail sacks, nor as to who sent or who is entitled to receive letters; that it is not employed by such persons, and owes to them severally and personally no duty whatever.

In a recent address a member of a prominent law firm in the city of New York used the following language:

"When I came to the bar, forty-three years ago, very few, if any, good lawyers advertised. To-day all

written on a blank of one company, and delivered that has changed. In the English Law List, which is

the official organ of the bar of that country, are tổ to an agent of another. The blank contained a be seen the cards of -, our own firm, and condition that the company would not be liable for damages in any case where the claim was not those of several others in New York. I think the presented within sixty days. The court holds that strongest, as it is one of the largest, firms in the the use of this blank by the sender, and the accept-of Toronto, whose card I see in all the foreign law world, having thirteen partners, is that of ance of the message thereon by the telegraph company, bind them both by the reasonable terms of the contract contained upon the blank used.

The inheritance tax law of Wisconsin, which authorizes the taxation of inheritances, gifts, or sales in contemplation of death, of personal above the value of $10,000, is construed in the case of Black v. State (89 Northwestern Reporter, 522), and held to be unconstitutional in that the statute contemplates the taxation of all inheritances in an

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lists and in well-nigh all our own legal and banking directories. Of course, the advertisement must be a dignified one; merely a card, nothing more. * * It is just as legitimate and proper for a lawyer to publish his card, preferably in a legal or banking journal, as it is for a business man to advertise his business."

The mere cards of law firms contained in such publications as the English Law List or Hubbell's Legal Directory, while in one sense advertisements,

sovereign, who attains majority at eighteen. In Germany, twenty-one is the general rule; but the same exception as prevails in this country with regard to the sovereign obtains there. In the United States, our law prevails generally as to males, but in certain of the States within the Union women acquire the status of majority at eighteen. In France, the age of majority is twenty-one in the case of both males and females. In various continental countries, while a general rule on this question is laid down, power is given to the authorities to confer upon persons the statuts of majority, where for valid reasons this may be deemed desirable, at an earlier age than that prescribed as generally applicable.- Law Times (London).

are of as great benefit to the public as to the lawyers this the sole exception occurs in the case of the themselves. It is doubtful whether any business of value would ever be sent to a firm of lawyers in a large city without previous knowledge of them, either personal or by reputation. Where a lawyer has a wide reputation, it is a matter of accommodation to anybody who wishes to employ him to have his post-office or cable address readily accessible. Of course, lesser legal lights derive a certain benefit from being included in the same category with more famous contemporaries. Lawyers in smaller communities receive an advantage from the insertion of their cards, or having their names included in the lists, in publications that profess to make investigation and not to admit any person who is unworthy. All of this, to some extent involves the advantage of advertising, and yet the usual features of competitive advertising are absent. According to the sentiment of this community, at least, lawyers of good standing are still precluded from advertising special or "cut" rates, or particular facilities or "pulls," or other considerations which would give them an advantage in the struggle for business. regard the advertising tendency, as far as it has gone as not illegitimate. Indeed, there are no objec

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tions, except those of sentiment and etiquette, against a lawyer's using the ordinary artifices of

advertisements practiced in the trades. It may even

be said that honest and direct advertisments, although undignified, are morally preferable to the "puffs" in the form of reading notices which aspiring attorneys procure to be inserted in the newspapers. At the same time, we hope that the practice of direct advertising will, by professional sentiment,

continue to be restricted to the insertion of "dignified" advertisements; "merely a card, nothing more."- N. Y. Law Journal.

The square piece of stuff which is attached to the back of a barrister's gown represents the purse which was formerly hung at the back of the members of the legal profession into which the confiding client could let slip unaware the honorarium. Solicitors are so eager to pay fees at this date that no suggestion is necessary. The bands which the barrister wears in front of his neck represents the two tablets of the law and were taken from the like appendage worn by the old chancellors, all of whom were ecclesiastics.- The Sammons (Melbourne, April 1, 1902).

In connection with the enthronement a few days ago of the young King of Spain, it may be of

interest to point out that, while he has legally attained majority at the age of sixteen, the ordinary rule in Spain is that majority is reached at the age of twenty-three. The rules in this matter of coming of age vary considerably in different countries. In cur own country, full age in male or female is twenty-one, which age is completed on the day preceding the person's twenty-first birthday. To

Dr. Richard Garnett, writing to the London Times on the almost universal omission by papermakers of the date of the manufacture of their paper, which used to be recorded by the watermark, says: The great importance which a dated water-mark may possess in legal proceedings is strikingly illustrated by a passage in the interesting of the first Georges, recently published by Mr. letters of Céar de Saussure on England in the time Murray. A dishonest steward endeavored, by means of forged documents, to make his mistress, the

Duchess of Buckingham, responsible for the repayment of large sums which had in fact never been advanced to her. A lengthy lawsuit followed, which came before the Court of King's Bench, and the duchess, who had already been condemned to lose the lawsuit by the judges of the court below, was going to be condemned by those of the higher court, when one of them had a sudden inspiration. Seizing a contested bill, the judge held it up to the light, and, having examined it carefully, he discovered to a certainty that the bill was forged, the date and water-mark on the paper being several years posterior to the date of the writing."

"Few people, I venture to say, even in high official positions, know what justice first wore the gown in the Supreme Court of the United States," said an authority on the subject recently. "When Justice John Jay took the office he thought the members of the Supreme bench should wear a gown of some sort. Accordingly, he appeared in his own academic gown, which he wore by virtue of having received a degree from the University of Dublin, or, tri-colored gown, too. Such a garment would look as it was then known, Trinity College.' It was a peculiar now, since the black gown has been adopted." Washington Post.

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The Special and Trial Terms of the New York Supreme Court adjourned on May 26 at recess out of respect to the memory of Justice George P. Andrews, whose funeral was held at 2 o'clock. All parts of the City Court were also adjourned. Justice Leventritt, who presided in Special Term,

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