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a vast amount of labor, expense and time in defend ing said suit, in attendance at courts, etc. etc., the employment and payment of attorneys in defending said action to its final termination, and for the •worriment of mind and labor of body, plaintiffs claim damages three thousand dollars. 6. That the charge made in the complaint in that action was false, revengeful in spirit, maliciously made without probable cause, and intended to damage and defame both the good name, honor, honesty and commercial standing of this plaintiff, and to scatter broadcast the cloud of defamation of character through the channels of information that should be held the most sacred, to wit, the records of pro ceedings in court, to be held up forever thereby against them the infamous charges of fraud and at tempted fraud, without having probable cause, to the damage of the plaintiffs in their minds, in their occupations, in their commercial standing and re lations to public intercourse, ten thousand dollars.
LITERARY NOTES. The legal profession will be greatly interested in a sketch of the late Henry W. Paine, by William Mathews, published in the New England Maga zine for April. Mr. Paine was a very remarkable man, and since the days of Webster and Choate there has been no one at the Suffolk Bar who excelled or even equalled him in all the attributes which go to make up a great lawyer.
In the nature of a revelation to most readers is the article in the April Centi-ry on " A Comet-Finder" (W. R. Brooks, of Geneva. N.Y.), written by Frank W. Mack, and illustrated with views of the comets discovered by Mr. Brooks, who is perhaps better known to the astronomical world as " The Red House Astronomer." An entirely novel interest also attaches to Mr. John G. Nicolay-s paper on " Lin coln's Literary Experiments," being in the nature of advance sheets of the forthcoming volumes of Lin coln's Speeches and Writings. Mr. Nicolav includes a considerable amount of hitherto unpublished ma terial, including a lecture and verses written by Lincoln. This article has the advantage of being in a field hitherto but scantily reaped. This number is strong in papers of adventure, including, under the title of " Driven out of Tibet," Mr. W. Woodville Rockhill's account of his attempt to pass from China through Tibet into India, a narrative very fully illustrated. There is also in the Artists' Adventures Series an account of a balloon ascen sion by Robert V. V. Sewell, the American painter;
and William Henry paper on " Hunting necticut," giving his search of what proves
Bishop contributes a unique an Abandoned Farm in Con mildly flavored adventures in to be very scarce game.
The complete novel in the April number of Lippincott's is " The Flying Halcyon," by Colonel Richard Henry Savage, author of " My Official Wife." Gil bert Parker's serial, " The Trespasser," reaches its twelfth chapter. Other stories are " Cap'n Patti," by Elia W. Peattie, who touches upon the Salvation Army, and " For Remembrance," by Elizabeth W. Bellamy. P. F. de Gournay supplies an interesting account of " The F. M. C.'s of Louisiana," a class which lost its distinctive existence by the war. Under the heading. " The Librarian among his Books," Julian Hawthorne describes the Library of Congress and its distinguished custodian. Chief-Justice Abra ham Fornander tells about " Hawaiian Traditions." H. C. Walsh explains an interesting experiment in "Co-operative House-keeping," now being made at Brookline, Mass., and George J. Varney writes learnedly of " Storage-Battery Cars."
The catholicity and the high average character of the selections which make up the contents of that invaluable eclectic of foreign literature, Littell's Living Age, may be estimated by the following partial list of titles of articles which have appeared in recent issues: " The Queen and Her Second Prime Minister," by Reginald B. Brett; " Roman Society a Century Ago," by Charles Edwards; " The Ireland of To-morrow "; •• The letters of Sir Walter Scott "; "A Brahmin's Impressions at the Chicago World's Fair," by Mulji Devji Vedant; " Wolfe Tone," by Augustine Birrell; " The Samaritan Passover," by Rev. Alex. R. Macewen, D.D.; " Railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem": "On Modern Travelling," by Vernon Lee: "The Revolt of the Daughters," by B. A. Crackanthorpe : "The Expedition to the West Indies, 1655 " by J. W. Fortesque : •• The Chemical Action of Marine Organisms," by John W. Judd; " Dean Stanley of Westminster"; " Bores," by Sir Herbert Maxwell; "The Portrait of a Moonshee," by J. W. Sherer, etc., etc. The fiction is of the best and includes translations from the French and German, as well as short stories by English writers. Will the House of Lords last much longer? In the April Harper's George W. Smalley, the New York Tribune's London correspondent, discusses the place of the Peers in British legislation, and contends
