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OBITUARY.

Woolwich
Exeter

SIR JOSEPH HERON, of Rookswood, Broughton Park, Manchester, who died at Cannes on December 23, was the son of James Holt Heron, late of Manchester, merchant, and was born in 1809. He was educated at the Moravian establishment at Fairfield. He was admitted an attorney and solicitor in Hilary Term, 1830, and was appointed town clerk of Manchester in 1838, when the borough came under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. He was created a knight in 1869. He was a member of the Manchester Law Association. His funeral took place on December 27 at Cannes. In Manchester flags were at half-mast at the Town Hall, the Royal Infirmary, and other public buildings. The large bell at the Town Hall was tolled during the morning. His long and almost unprecedented service in the arduous and responsible duties of the management of the affairs of one of the largest boroughs in the kingdom makes him a conspicuous figure in the history of municipalities.

HONOURS AND APPOINTMENTS. MR. RICHARD HORTON SMITH, Q.C., who has been appointed Professor of Equity by the Council of Legal Education, is the eldest son of Mr. Richard Smith, of London. He graduated M.A. from St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1859, was Fellow from 1859 to 1864, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in Hilary Term, 1859. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1877.

AN AMPLE SECURITY.-In the trial of a case recently in one of the Middlesex District Courts, a witness was asked to repeat a conversation which had passed with her husband. Objection was made by counsel on the other side that the question should not be answered because the conversation was private in its nature. The judge then asked the witness whether anybody except herself and husband were present. She replied that her mother and the husband's mother were. Whereupon the judge remarked: 'It appears, Mrs. B—, that both mothers-inlaw were present. I shall therefore rule that the conversation was public.-Advocate.

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.-It is announced that three judges of the United States Supreme Court will retire during President Harrison's term of office. There would then be a chance for Ohio yet to get there.' The information comes from Washington that an increase in the number of judges of the United States Supreme Court by two additional judges is contemplated. That of itself will not, of course, suffice to relieve the embarrassment in the business before that Court, but it will probably prevent the condition from growing worse. Nothing will effectually remedy that evil itself but a Court greatly increased in numbers, and working in branches, like the Court of Cassation of France and the Imperial Supreme Court of Germany. There is no blockade of business there.-Weekly Law Bulletin (Ohio).

BIRTH.

Mr. Ralph Daniel Makinson Littler, Q.C., who has been approved by the Queen to be a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Civil Division), is the youngest son of the late Raven, Barrister-at-Law, of the Middle Temple, of a son. Rev. Robert Littler. He was B.A. of London University in 1854, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Trinity Term, 1857, admitted a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1870, Queen's Counsel in 1873, bencher in 1882, goes the North-Eastern and Northern Circuits, and practises at the Parliamentary bar.

On Dec. 27, at Kildare Terrace, Bayswater, the wife of John E.

MARRIAGES.

On Nov. 30, at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Arthur Ernest, fourth son of
John Taylor, Solicitor, 14 Great James Street, Bedford Row, W.C., and
17 Albion Grove, Barnsbury, N., to Mary, widow of the late J. M.
Geere, of Pietermaritzburg.
On Dec. 21, at St. Saviour's, Preston, Brighton, Walter Harry Dodd,
L.R.C.P. London, fourth son of Grantham Robert Dodd, Solicitor,
Educa-Highbury, to Emily Augusta, widow of the late Rev. Thomas Barnes,
M. A., Rector of Loxton, Somerset, and granddaughter of the late John
Alexander, Esq., of Newbury, Berks, and Uphaven. Wilts.

Mr. Edmund Robertson, M.P., who has been appointed Professor of Common Law by the Council of Legal tion, is the eldest son of Mr. Edmund Robertson, of Kinnaird Inchture, Dundee. He was a student of St. Andrew's University, scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, Vinerian Law Scholar, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College; was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in Michaelmas Term, 1871. He is a member of the Northern Circuit, and has been M.P. for Dundee since 1885.

MR. SKIRROW'S TESTIMONIAL.-In the report of the testimonial to Mr. Skirrow last week, 'Lord Westbury' should have been 'Lord Wolseley.'

THE YOUNGEST CHIEF JUSTICE.-Guy C. H. Corliss, the new Chief Justice of North Dakota, being only thirtyone years old, is the youngest judge of that grade in the republic.-Advocate.

On Dec. 28, at the Parish Church, Widford, Stauley Owen Buckmaster, Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, to Edith Augusta, fourth

daughter of Spencer Robert Lewin, of The Bourne, Widford, Herts.

DEATHS.

On Oct. 31, at Chefoo, China, drowned accidentally, Colin Jamieson, Esq, Barrister-at-Law, Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs, China, youngest son of the late Colin Buchanan Jamieson, of Rothesay, N.B.

On Dec. 22, at Melton Grange, Great Malvern, Thomas Sidgreaves, J.P., K.T., late Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, aged 58. On Dec. 24, at Ilminster, Somerset, John Baker, Solicitor, aged 83. On Dec. 24, James Tench, of 15 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, Solicitor.

James Armstrong, of 12 Fenchurch Avenue, Solicitor, aged 13.

On Dec. 24, at 120 Sutherland Avenue, James Archibald, third son of

On Dec. 25, at his residence, The Ems, Wandsworth, John Sanders, late of Nottingham, Solicitor, aged 76.

THE LAW JOURNAL REPORTS AND STATUTES

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Per Annum doubt that a parish register is 'goods' within the

meaning of the section. It was decided in Regina V.

Slade, 57 Law J. Rep. M. C. 120, that a dog is goods,

and it would be easier to say that a register is goods. The

jurisdiction of the magistrate is that, if no title is shown,

he may make an order to deliver absolutely, or if the

person complained of shows he has a lien conditionally on

his paying the sum due. The vicar was entitled to the

custody of the registers in virtue of 52 Geo. III. c. 146,

which requires him to keep them in a well-painted iron
chest constantly kept locked in a dry, safe, and secure
place within the residence of the vicar or in the Church.
The difficulty about making the order in the Police Act
arises from the nature of the penalty imposed by the Act
for non-obedience to the Order. It is that every person
who shall neglect or refuse to deliver up the goods ac-
cording to the order shall forfeit to the party aggrieved
the full value of the goods, and the remedy was useless
in the case in question.

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THE answer to the question of 'Lex,' 'Why is the
Gas Stokers' Union allowed with impunity to conspire
with other labour unions to prevent the South Metro-
politan Gas Company from carrying on their business?'
is that it is in virtue of an Act called the Trades Union
Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), of which 'Lex' can
hardly be ignorant. If 'Lex' had been 'Jus' there
might have been something to be said for the proposi-
tion that to conspire to prevent any person or persons
carrying on his or their lawful occupation is an indict-
able offence, although the Court of Appeal, with the
dissent of the Master of the Rolls, has lately held, in
The Mogul Steamship Company v. M'Gregor, Gow & Co.
58 Law J. Rep. Q.B. 465, that a combination not being
attended by circumstances of dishonesty, intimidation,
molestation, or actual malice is not actionable at com-
mon law as a conspiracy or as in restraint of trade.
By section 2 of that Act the purposes of any trade
union shall not, by reason merely that they are in re-
straint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to
render any member of such trade union liable to cri-
minal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise,' and by
section 3 agreements and trusts are in similar terms
relieved from being unlawful, void, or voidable. Sec-
tion 4 provides that nothing in the Act shall enable
any Court to entertain any legal proceedings instituted
with the object of directing, enforcing, or recovering
damages for the breach of any agreement-among
others, for the application of the funds of a trade union
to furnish contributions to any employer or workman
not a member of such trade union, in consideration of
such employer or workman acting in conformity with
the rules or resolutions of such trade union, or any
agreement made between one trade union and another,
but nothing in the section is to be deemed to constitute
any of the above-mentioned agreements unlawful. If
the Gas Stokers' Union fall out among themselves
about any agreement between them and other labour
unions the dispute cannot be settled in a Court of law,
but the agreement is lawful in every other respect.

MR. FREDERICK MEAD, one of the Metropolitan sti-
pendiary magistrates, has written an interesting letter
on the question of criminal appeals. After explaining
the present system of appeal and comparing it with the
American system, he cites the case of Guiteau, the

The

to try them. The result is that the Queen's Bench Division is found with a list of more than a thousand causes for trial by jury or judge for the coming Hilary Sittings. The total number of causes and matters in the lists of the Chancery judges is 593 as against 659 in Hilary Sittings, 1889. The total number of actions entered for trial up to January 4 last in the Queen's Bench Division is 1,014, as against 240 last Hilary Sittings and 1,024 Michaelmas Sittings, 1889. Queen's Bench list has reached three figures through a slow, but sure, accumulation of arrears in the course of the year, due to judges being absent on the Special Commission, to the extra demands now made on their time by the circuits and the Central Criminal Court, and in a less degree by absentees from illness, by the duties of Mr. Justice Cave in bankruptcy business, and by Mr. Justice Wills's occasional visits to preside over the Railway and Canal Commission under the Act of 1888. The figures do not include the Divisional Court business, which amounts to 284 entries, as against 252 in Hilary Sittings, 1889. The Divorce causes at 179, as against 123 in Hilary Sittings in 1889, show a gallant effort on the part of Mr. Justice Butt in dealing with his list of 219 causes in Michaelmas Sittings; but how can one judge successfully struggle to do the work which was meant for two?

assassin of President Garfield, whose sentence was post- change in the high law offices of the Crown with poned five months to enable him to appeal. On August which lawyers are concerned. It has been dull be24 last, shortly after the trial of the Maybrick case and cause the Chancery lists showed signs of declining the discussion of appeals in criminal cases in the House as compared with previous years and the Queen's of Lords, attention was drawn in this journal to the Bench Division no signs of elasticity, for the reason cases of Kring and Mrs. Taylor, the one in Missouri and ' that, although the lists were full, there were no judges the other in Virginia. In Mrs. Taylor's case the prisoner, charged with poisoning her husband, was convicted by the jury of murder in the second degree, notwithstanding that poisoning a husband in Virginia is murder in the first degree. A single judge set aside the verdict and discharged the prisoner. In Kring's case the prisoner was convicted of murdering his friend and benefactor's wife because he failed to seduce her, and was sentenced to death. The judgment was reversed on a writ of error, and the case re-tried twice, and on the fourth trial the prisoner pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to twenty-five years' penal servitude. Again the judgment was set aside by writ of error, whereupon the prisoner stood mute in the dock, and a conviction for murder in the first degree was entered against him. This judgment was appealed against, and the Superior Court of Missouri affirmed it; but the Supreme Court of the United States reversed it on the ground that the State had adopted a new constitution in the course of proceedings, so that he was entitled to be tried under the old. There had been five trials and four appeals. Mr. Mead thus sums up his views on the question:---Upon the whole it certainly appears that the question of a verdict being against the weight of evidence and of a reasonable doubt should be still left to the Home Secretary, who is not required to give reasons or lay down prin- If there has been no movement among the judges since ciples as a Court of justice would have to do, and whose 1888, except that Lord Fitzgerald has been replaced by advice to Her Majesty is founded upon mercy as well as Lord Morris as a lord of appeal in the House of Lords, justice. In all such cases he can now call to his aid any but there have been more changes than usual in the judicial or scientific assistance he may in his discretion think fit; and although, no doubt, his responsibility is lower judicial offices and appointments which the Lord extremely heavy, can any better course be devised? Chancellor and the Home Secretary have been called Suggestions have been made that an ultimate Court upon to make. In January the late Judge M'Intyre should be constituted, of which the Home Secretary became county court judge in the West Riding of should be a member; but would judicial duties be com- Yorkshire on the retirement of Judge Cooke. patible with his position as an executive minister of the September Judge M'Intyre died and was succeeded by Crown? Moreover, however strong a Court of Appeal Mr. Robert Melville. Judge Shand succeeded, on may be, it would not supersede the Home Scoretary in the resignation of Judge Thompson, to the Liverhis ministerial capacity. A popular agitation in favour of pool County Court District. Judge Holl was transa prisoner would have to be suspended during the hearing ferred from the County Court of Northumberof the case by the Court of Appeal, but it would break land to the County Court of Berks and adforth afresh as soon as an unfavourable decision had been joining counties, where there was a vacancy from given; so that in any case the appeal to the Queen the death of Judge Whigham, and Judge Seymour through the Home Secretary would not be abolished, but took his place in the North. Judge Cadman was merely removed to a later stage. appointed County Court Judge in the West Riding of The opinion unfavourable to a Court of Appeal in Yorkshire, and Mr. William Barber, Q.C., of the criminal cases appears to be gaining ground in the Chancery Bar, was appointed County Court Judge in minds of sensible people based on the knowledge and Derbyshire. Of the superior officers of the law, Mr. judgment of persons of experience in the practical work Philbrick, Q.C., Mr. Vaughan Williams, Q.C., the of Courts for trying criminal causes, of which Lord Bramwell is the most weighty.

THE YEAR 1889.

THE writer on the Old Year should, if he can, by way of New Year's greeting to his readers, find something new to say about the year that has passed, seeing that all that has been written about it seems to show that it has been a dull year in the history of England and of the world. To lawyers it has been dull in several senses of the word. No English judge of a superior Court has resigned or died, and there has been no

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one new silk' of the year, and Mr. F. A. Bosanquet, Q.C., were appointed Commissioners of Assize, but, as has been seen, their appointment only mitigated the arrears at the Royal Courts even when backed up by the temporary but effective assistance of Lords Justices Bowen and Lopes on one occasion, and Lords Justices Bowen and Fry on another, who did not compensate for the insufficiency of the judges available there to keep them within reasonable bounds. Sir Alexander Miller, Q.C., was appointed Master in Lunacy, and Mr. George Urmson Commissioner in Lunacy. Early in the year Mr. George Macdonnell was appointed Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Mr. Ralph D. M. Littler,

SERJEANT ROBINSON.

Q.C., C.B., was appointed Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions. Among Recorders, Mr. Edmund Lumley was made Recorder of Grantham, and Mr. W. E. Mire- FEW persons having any sympathy with old institutions house Recorder of Much Wenlock on the resignation will fail to view without regret the gradual decay of of Mr. Alfred Chichele Plowden, metropolitan stipen- the ancient Order of Serjeants, which for five centuries diary magistrate in 1888, Sir Shenstone Baker Recorder held the highest rank at the bar, with the exception of of Barnstaple, Mr. Robert George Glenn first Recorder the King's law officers and a few King's Counsel, which of Croydon, and quite recently Mr. Morton Smith Order has in the nineteenth century taken its place. Recorder of Gravesend, and Mr. Thomas Rowland Its privileges were lost one by one. The right of exclusive Drake Wright Recorder of Pontefract. Mr. Gilbert audience in the Court of Common Pleas went first, and George Kennedy was appointed stipendiary magistrate when it became the practice to create a great number at Greenwich and Woolwich. Mr. Haden Corser was of Queen's Counsel the dignity of the Order was appointed magistrate at Dalston on the death of reduced, and a serjeant practising at the bar was Mr. Barstow, Mr. Frederick Mead magistrate at looked upon as a barrister who had failed to obtain a Wandsworth. The obituary of lawyers in the year, silk gown. The supply of serjeants and the dignity besides those already mentioned, includes Lord Fraser, of the institution were maintained at this time judge of the Court of Session, Scotland, Sir John by the law, which required every judge, before being Maule, Q.C., sometime director of prosecutions in appointed a justice or baron of the Courts of Queen's criminal cases, Mr. Henry Brett Ince, Q.C., Mr. Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, to take the coif Henry Pollock, Master of the Supreme Court, and go through a form of pleading in the Court of Mr. William Ribton, Mr. M'Clymont, Mr. Firth, Common Pleas. On November 2, 1875, the Judicature Mr. Brickwood and Mr. Harmsworth, Mr. Robert Act, 1873, which provided the sole qualification for a Baxter, solicitor, and Sir Joseph Heron, solicitor and judge to be a barrister of ten years' standing who clerk of the peace for Manchester. The month of Sep- need not thenceforth take the degree of serjeant-attember appears to have been specially fatal to lawyers, law, came into operation. After that it was intiand in the month of November Judge Bristowe, of the mated that there was an understanding between Nottinghamshire County Court, had a narrow escape Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Selborne, from being shot by a disappointed litigant in his Court. the ex-Chancellor, that there would be no That there will be no lack of fresh blood at the bar is serjeants appointed. Upon that came the division shown from the fact that 252 barristers were called to of the land and goods at Serjeants' Inn among the the bar in 1889, as against 267, but the rush to the bar existing serjeants, and the whole property of the inn which is supposed to exist is somewhat exaggerated, came to the hammer. The existing members of the and is subsiding rather than rising. order consist of thirteen ex-judges and judges and five serjeants, as now reduced by the death of Mr. Serjeant Robinson. Some of the judges, although on their creation ejected from their Inn of Court by a process of simulated ignominy, came back to their inn and became benchers, but this hospitality was not extended to the serjeants. The Order of the Coif,' by Mr. Serjeant Pulling, who is one of them, makes a record of the history of the order which does justice to it, and in the course of it the learned author makes a parting appeal for its preservation.

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It is hardly necessary to draw the attention of the reader to the cases which have been decided in the course of the year. Are they not written in the fifty-eighth volume of the LAW JOURNAL REPORTS? Have they not been written upon in the twenty-third volume of the LAW JOURNAL? The same question may be asked as to the statutes. The cases may, however, be summed up shortly by saying, first, that Derry v. Peek, 58 Law J. Rep. Chanc. 864, is the most important case which the House of Lords has decided since the passing of the Judicature Acts; secondly, the House has been busy Serjeant Robinson, whose death took place on Saturduring the year and has dealt, in Tailby v. The Official day last, was a good example of the expiring Order of Receiver, 58 Law J. Rep. Q. B. 75, with important points, the Coif as it was known in its latter days. Twenty on the law of assignments: in Farie v. The Lord Pro-years ago there was no more familiar figure to be seen rost of Glasgow, 58 Law J. Rep. P. C. 33, has thrown in the Courts at Westminster and Guildhall than Serlight on the question, What is a mineral? in Newbould jeant Robinson. On the Home Circuit and at the Bailward, 58 Law J. Rep. Q. B. 209, has provided a Surrey Sessions, in the course of a few years from his new charter for costs under the Remuneration Act call, he obtained 'one of the best all-round practices at Rules after a long struggle. In the Court of Appeal, the bar,' as it was described by one who was capable of Vagliano v. The Bank of England, 58 Law J. Rep. judging. For some years before his death he had Q. B. 357, decides important questions of commercial virtually retired from practice, and latterly even gave and banking law. The Mogul Steamship Company v. up his chambers in the Temple, though he was still occaM Gregor, Gow & Co., 58 Law J. Rep. Q. B. 465, con- sionally employed as arbitrator, the last occasion being tains learned judgments on the law of conspiracy by in the course of 1889, when he acted in a very heavy combination: and Allbutt v. The General Medical matter. Impiger, acer, never iracundus, he was to be Council, 58 Law J. Rep. Q. B. 606, decides a delicate seen hurrying about Westminster Hall, and if his briefs point in the law of libel as to privilege in actions of libel were not very many he conducted his cases with conof bodies entrusted by the law with the care of the re- siderable acuteness and great vigour. In his early gister of a profession, with power to put on and strike days at the bar he wrote a little book on Waroff the register or roll. The more recent case, not yet rants of Attorney' two years after the late Mr. reported, in the Court of Appeal of Regina v. The Henry Macnamara, his life-long friend, had written Bishop of London, is an example of ecclesiastical law argued in a temporal Court, and, like most ecclesiastical cases, including the Bishop of Lincoln's Case, will drag on its course to the highest tribunal to which it can go.

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his little book on 'Nullities and Irregularities.' In his retirement he devoted a good deal of time to the affairs of the Saddlers' Company, of which body he was worshipful master at the time of his death. He was on

HAZELL'S ANNUAL, 1890.

the governing body of many hospitals; but he will be made a valuable contribution to the subject with which more particularly remembered in connection with the he deals. We venture on a few minor criticisms. On Royal Free Hospital in the Gray's Inn Road, where he p. 45, Mr. Winslow omits the most obvious remedy for was an almost daily visitor, and in the management deliberately selling a picture with a forged signatureof which he had taken an active part for many viz. an indictment for obtaining money by false preyears. Last season his name came prominently tences, which was taken a few years since in respect of before the reading public as the author of 'Bench a picture on which Mr. Leader's name was signed. He and Bar Reminiscences, by One of the Last of an does not make it clear whether on section 4 of the Act Ancient Race,' which, like Serjeant Ballantine, he 54 Geo. III. c. 56 (see pp. 63, 179), the sculptor can, published for the delectation of posterity. This book by apt words in a conveyance of a sculpture, himself was so successful that it ran through three editions, retain the copyright, or whether the copyright must pass and at the time of his death the serjeant was en- as an inseparable incident of ownership of the original. gaged on a second series. Many of his stories are At p. 183, the arbitration clause is already rendered obnot new, and one at least is told in a way not in solete by the Arbitration Act of 1889, passed since accordance with the best version of the tale. The Mr. Winslow went to press. The catalogue of colonial story of the burning of Paper Buildings as usually statutes is by no means exhaustive, and the Canadian told is that Maule, before he got into his bed on the Act of 1875 (p. 95) was recast and re-enacted in 1886, fatal night, carefully put the extinguisher of his candle as c. 62 of the Revised Statutes of Canada. But these over his watch on the table and put the candle under small omissions in no way detract from the general his pillow. The serjeant omits the extinguisher and utility of the book, which has also a special merit in makes Maule put the candle on the bed, which would the collection of precedents with which it ends. hardly be sufficient for the purposes of the fate which was to bring about the conflagration. The night before he died the serjeant expressed a regret that he had not lived long enough to finish his book and his year as master of the Saddlers' Company. Personally he was of an engaging disposition, especially with children, whom he used to amuse with reciting a rhymed version of the Merchant of Venice.' Serjeant Robinson's death came upon all his friends quite unexpectedly, for, although he had been suffering MR. PRICE sings of men and topics of the day. His from asthma for some weeks, it was not sufficiently cycle is one year from the beginning of November to the severe to excite serious apprehension. On the Monday beginning of the next November. Consequently, as he before Christmas Day he was at a ball at the Mansion says, it is almost superfluous to draw attention to the House, and on Christmas Day he entertained a large varied contents of the work. It is written by a littéraparty of friends. On Thursday evening, January 2, he teur, assisted, as he informs us, by a large number of was playing whist up to midnight. There can be little contributors, including some of the most eminent doubt the fogs during the Christmas week hastened his specialists of the day, for littérateurs, journalists, and end. Few men had a larger circle of friends, or will be newspaper readers, and, to borrow the words of the followed to the grave with more sincere and regretful title, contains above 3,500 concise and explanatory affection than the late Mr. Serjeant Robinson. articles on every topic of current political, social, biographical, and general interest referred to in the press and in daily conversation. The editor invites communications relative to the correction of possible errors. We have found no errors, and it is easier to find errors of omission than of commission in a book of reference. Mr. Price's account of the English judges is full enough. English and Irish and Scotch lawyers would like to know a little more about Irish and Scotch judges. The record of the death of Martin Tupper on November 20 shows that the title-page was modest in giving the 5th

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WINSLOW ON ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT.
The Law of Artistic Copyright, including Copyright in
Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Engravings,
Sculpture, and Designs. With an Appendix of
Statutes and Collection of Precedents. By REGINALD
WINSLOW, M.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law. London:
William Clowes & Sons (Lim.).

A Cyclopedic Record of Hazell's Annual for 1890. Men and Topics of the Day. Revised to November 5, 1889. Edited by E. D. PRICE, F.G.S. Fifth year of issue. Hazell, Watson & Viney (Lim.) 1890.

as the end of the revision. We have also occurrences

during printing bringing us down to the election of the President of Congress of the United States on DecemTHE excellent type and decorated cover of this book, ber 3. All who wish to be conversant with current and its combination of beauty with business, should events and facts will find this book a guide, philosopher, charm the sensibilities of the artists, for whom it is in and friend. That is a more hackneyed, but is a less part intended, into appreciation of the benefits and pit- frightening, quotation than Avaunt Perplexity,' which falls of the law as it affects their profession. To adorns the front cover, and is backed on the other cover lawyers, also, artistic copyright is, though a narrow by a placard in large letters of the brand of a certain subject, one of daily growing interest, from the increase oleaginous commodity. of art in trade, or, shall we say, of trade in art, and the enormous effect of modern inventions and public demand upon the reproduction of works of art whether for advertisement or pleasure. Mr. Winslow has embodied both in his table of cases and in the text references to all the usual reports, and is in other respects clear, accurate, and practical, and has

NO CHICKS.-Mr. Justice Field, of the Supreme Court of the United States, is reported to have said to a Chicago interviewer: We are no chicks. My oldest brother, David Dudley, is eighty-four years old; I am seventythree; Cyrus is seventy and Henry sixty-seven.'-American Law Review.

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