been generally reserved for much older men. Mr. Stuart was first elected Judge of the city of Alexandria, and when afterwards he was elected to the House of Delegates, was chosen in his second session the Speaker of that body. He was returned to the bench after declining re-election to the Legislature, and served in that position till his death. Throughout the State there will be many who knew the deceased and put a just and high estimate upon his superior abilities, who will hear with deep regret that this gifted young Virginian has been cut down in the flower of his youth.
The bar of Staunton, Va., which has numbered many brilliant lawyers among its members, has lost another prominent figure in the death of Judge Hugh W. Sheffey, who died on April 7 in his seventy-fifth year. Judge Sheffey was an able lawyer, and had a wide reputation as an authority on parliamentary and ecclesiastical law; and in the general conventions of the Episcopal Church, to which he belonged, his complete mastery of these subjects, says the Baltimore "Sun," made him especially valuable.
Hon. Caleb Bogess, known throughout Virginia for his eminent legal attainments and his prominence in general affairs of the State before and since the war, died suddenly at his home, on April 14, aged sixty-six years. He was a graduate of the Lexington, Ky., University, in the Class of '54, and later was a member of the Virginia Legislature and the secession convention.
John C. Park, one of Boston's oldest lawyers, and in his day a famous orator, died on April 21 at his home in Newton. Mr. Park was born in Boston in 1804, graduated from Harvard in 1824, and later was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was associated in legal practice with the late Charles G. Loring, Judge Jackson, and Sidney Bartlett. Mr. Park served six terms in the State House and two in the Senate. He was also at one time District Attorney for Suffolk County, Clerk of the Supreme Court, and Justice for the Probate Court for West Newton.
In noticing the death of William T. Norris, of Danbury, N. H., in our April number, the name was, by an error, made to read William J. Morris.
REVIEWS.
The leading article in the April number of the Law Quarterly Review is on "Manorial Jurisdiction," by G. H. Klakesley. The well-known American writer, Melville M. Bigelow, contributes an interesting chapter on the "Definition of Circumvention," taken from his new work on Fraud which is now in press. In "Murder from the Best Motives," Herbert Stephen takes issue with the ideas advanced by Dr. Thwing in a paper entitled "Euthanasia in Articulo Mortis," read before the New York Medico-Legal Society, in which he argued that in some cases of hopeless suffering a physician is morally justified in putting an end to his patient's life. The other contents of this number are "On the Amendment of Law relating to Factors," "County Court Reform," "The Swiss Federal Court," "Federation and PseudoFederalism," "Employer's Liability," and "The Squatter's Case."
The March-April number of the American Law Review is uncommonly interesting and entertain ing. This is perhaps to be attributed to the fact, as intimated by the genial editor, in the "Notes," that he (the editor) "has been spurred up by his new business rival 'The Green Bag.'" We congratulate our friendly rival on his determination to follow in our footsteps. In the first place there is a very readable article on "The Use and Value of Authorities," by Mr. Justice Samuel F. Miller of the United States Supreme Court. Irving Browne contributes a paper on "Dead-Letter Laws." Conrad Reno discusses the "Impairment of Contracts by Judicial Opinion;" and the address of Walter B. Hill, President of the Georgia Bar Association, on "Bar Associations" is published in full. The "Notes" are made more of a feature than usual, and include poetry as well as prose. Judging from the results, the "Green Bag" has done a good work in spurring up its Western brother, and we shall do our best to make him toe the mark in the future.
The April number of the Juridical Review is fully up to the excellent standard of its first issue. For a frontispiece there is a fine picture of Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, the eminent Italian jurist, which is accompanied by an interesting sketch of his life. The other contents are "The
