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"Kavalli brought another case to me for con sideration. He was already five times married, and he desired a sixth wife. He had purchased lur f.-om the tribe of Bugombi; and her parents, having heard something to his prejudice, wished to compel a double payment, and would not de liver her to him. Whereupon I suggested to Kaval'i that by giving another cow and a calf the matter might be arranged. "The next case that I had to judge was some what difficult. Chief Mpigwa having appeared at the Barza (Durbar), a man stepped up to compl. in of him, because he withheld two cows that belonged to his tribe. Mpigwa explained that a man had married a girl belonging to his tribe and had paid two cows for her, that she had gone to his house, and in course of time had become a mother, and had borne three children to her hus band. The man died, whereupon his tribe ac cused the woman of having contrived his death by witchcraft, and drove her home to her parents. Mpigwa received her into the tribe with her chil dren; and now the object of complaint was the restoration of the two cows to the husband's tribe. ' Was it fair,' asked Mpigwa, ' after a woman had become the mother of three children in the tribe to demand the cattle back again after the hus band's death, when they had sent the woman and her infants away of their own accord? ' The de cision upheld Mpigwa in his views, as such con duct was not only heartless and mean, but tended to bring the honored custom of marriage con tracts into contempt." — Irish Law Times.
REVIEWS. The Harvard Law Review for December con tains an ably written paper on " The Right to Privacy," by Samuel D. Warren and 1/iuis D. Brandeis. "The Police Power and Interstate Commerce " is the subject of an exhaustive article, by William R. Howland.
The Juridical Review, for October, 1890, has just come to hand; and this number completes the Second Volume of this admirable magazine. The frontispiece is an excellent portrait of Lord Moncrieff, late Ixird Justice, Clerk of Scotland; Mr.
Mackay continues his interesting paper on " 'I'he Science of Politics, its Methods and its Use; " JWalter Craig contributes an article " Land Regis try in Ireland," and Thomas Raleigh one on " The English Courts in relation to Scotland." The other contents are " How to Abolish Contraband," by Andrew Wishart; and " The Work of the West Indian Commissioners," by A. Wood Renton. The contents of the " Political Science Quar terly " for December are unusually interesting. Prof. C. H. Levermorc contributes a paper 011 "Henry C. Carey and his Social System," and the others are " Evolution of Copyright," by Brander Matthews; " Political Economy in France," by Prof. Charles Gide; " The Taxation of Corpora tions " (Part III.), by Prof. E. R. A. Seligraan; and " Hermann von Hoist," by Prof.
The December Century is more " Christmasy" than is usual with that magazine, there being a Christmas story by Joel Chandler Harris, and a Christmas poem by President Henry Morton, of Stevens Institute. The frontispiece is a strik ing head, " Daphne," by George W. Maynard, in " The Century Series of American Pictures; "' and the opening paper is General Bidwell's ac count of Life in California before the Gold Discovery." Here is also published " Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California:" these two arti cles showing with what thoroughness the Centu ry's new and important series is being carried out. The hundredth anniversary of the death of Franklin is marked by Mr. Charles Henry Hart's paper on "Franklin in Allegory," with a full-page engraving of Franklin after a portrait by Peale. and repro ductions of French prints. The fiction of this number includes stories by Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps — " Fourteen to One" (a true story); Richard Harding Davis, and Maurice Thompson — '• A Pair of Old Hoys; F. Hopkinson Smith's " Colonel Carter of Cartersville " is con tinued; and " Sister Dolorosa," a three-part story, by James L ine Allen, is begun. This is a compan ion story to Mr. Allen's tragic story of " The White Cowl." After the Autobiography of Jefferson, the famous comedian, it is interesting to read in this number the views on acting by Tommaso Salvini, the greatest of living tragedians. Other illustrated papers are Mr. Maclay's " laurels of the American
